Displaying items by tag: mental health

Safer Farms, the organisation dedicated to recognising the benefits of on-farm health and safety, is on a mission to reframe psychosocial harm.

While takeout deliveries may not reach the farm, remote households in Hurunui now have access to an innovative wellbeing delivery service that provides mental health support to their doorsteps.

Mental health and resilience programme WellMates is available at Massey University for a second year after research found that it has significantly benefitted participants.

OPINION: In the aftermath of a mass shooting earlier this year on the campus of Michigan State University in the US, the university's herd of cows has provided comfort to students.

Research into the impacts of the inaugural rollout of the WellMates programme at Massey University has shown promising results and outlined ways to strengthen its delivery, the university says.

Look after your wellbeing and take a moment to check on your neighbours.

After narrowly avoiding a helicopter crash in the Southern Alps, instead of feeling relieved, TV presenter Matt Chisholm was disappointed.

More than $40,000 has been raised to lead a mental health initiative for forestry at a charity auction dinner held in Rotorua last week.

To mark Mental Health Awareness week, Taranaki dairy farmer Kane Brisco recently joined a recent DairyNZ podcast to share some timely advice on how farmers could take care of themselves.

Mental health programme Farmstrong is encouraging people to get off farm and take a break.