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Family and Carer Mental Health Program celebrates Carers Week |
| 18 October 2011 |
 This week is Carers Week and in northern New South Wales Mission Australia is celebrating with events and activities from Tweed Heads down to Port Macquarie.Carers are people who provide unpaid care and support to family members and friends who have a disability, mental illness, chronic condition, terminal illness or who are frail aged. There are currently over 2.6 million unpaid family carers in Australia, more than 770,000 of whom are primary carers - the people who provide the most care. Mission Australia’s Family and Carer Mental Health program specifically supports carers of people with a mental illness living on the North Coast. In the lead-up to Carers Week, Mission Australia donated around $400 worth of books each to both the Port Macquarie and the Kempsey libraries to help inform people in those communities about mental illness. Kellie Russell, a Carer Support worker for the Family and Carer Mental Health Program, said she made the decision to donate books on mental illness to Kempsey Library because she believed that carers – the very people who are caring for someone with a mental illness – should be able to have access to information on mental illness. “In my job as a Carer Support Worker, I had access to a lot of great books on mental illness,” Ms Russel said. “And while I noticed that while Kempsey Library had some great books on this subject, they could probably do with a few more.” “By donating these books and thereby ensuring Kempsey Library has a larger range of information on mental ill health, carers of people with a mental illness will be able to readily access books about mental illness – as well as people in the community with an interest in mental health.” Here are a few of the activities our Family and Carer Mental Health Program are hosting or taking part in throughout Carer’s Week:
Find our more information about our North Coast program, including contact details, visit our Family and Carer Mental Health Program page.  |
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