Community Engagement Request Form: Services & Community Groups

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Community Engagement

Our Community Engagement Coordinators work part-time hours 3 days a week.

An important part of our role in community is to promote headspace services to young people, parents/carers, schools and other key stakeholders. We are keen to collaborate with services and community groups based on the Gold Coast by promoting headspace services, participating and partnering on activities/events/something cool!

Our priority groups include young men, First Nations, Culturally & Linguistically Diverse, and LGBTIQAP+ young people. Requests for community engagement and participation will be prioritised in relation to those priority groups.

Use this form to learn more about how we can work together and to provide details on your request / idea.

Please note we require at least 4 weeks notice to be able to service your request.
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How can we work together?

Our key community engagement focus is to promote headspace services and share about how headspace can help, the importance of getting help early and how to refer/access our services.

Learn about headspace

We can come out and present to your staff about headspace Southport. Our presentations have a focus on building stakeholders understanding of headspace services and referral pathways. Presentations are approx.1 hour and touch on the below topics:

What is headspace and where are we located

Why would a young person come to headspace

What programs/services we offer and what support looks like

Groups/programs we have available at our centres

Our Youth Advisory Council (YAC) and how to get a young person involved

How to refer to headspace

Please note that if you are wanting a Clinician from our headspace Early Psychosis program to deliver an in-service, you will need to request via earlypsychosis@headspacesouthport.org.au

Event Partnership and Participation

There are a number of ways we can work with you on events/activities/something else cool.

If your service/agency is planning an event, conference, EXPO or activity that has a youth mental health and wellbeing focus, we can attend as headspace representatives to join in and support your activities. We can also host a headspace stall, providing opportunities for community members, services & young people to interact with us. Our stall can include resources about headspace services, other local or national youth mental health resources and merchandise to give away.

We are keen to hear of opportunties to partner with services/community groups on co-located activities and events. This could look like a "pop-up" clinic at our Southport centre or a special workshop series during school-holiday time.

We may also be able to partner with you on organsing and running a community event if it is in line with our priority areas.

Let's collaborate!

Forget the stalls and wellbeing expos, we want to help you dream big and deliver an experience that truly engages participants. Got an idea in mind? Let’s hear it. If not, we can help you brainstorm innovative ways we can lead or participate in activities and events.

We work closely with stakeholders to plan and deliver impactful projects and programs that respond to the unique needs of young people in our community. Some past projects include:

Partnered with the Gold Coast Suns and Tackle Your Feelings for a mental health and AFL event for young men. Click here to view the recap.

Partnered with the Multicultural Communities Council Gold Coast (MCCGC) to host a Meet & Eat. Click here to watch the recap.

Supported Gold Coast Youth Hubs in cofacilitating their Runway Bay Youth Group Holiday Activity. Click here to watch the recap.

Please continue with this Request Form if your query fits with the above criteria
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Name of Service/Community Group* This field is required.
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Key Contact Name* This field is required.
First Name
Last Name
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Key Contact Job Title / Role* This field is required.
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Key Contact Email* This field is required.
example@example.com
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Key Contact Phone Number* This field is required.
Area Code
Phone Number
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Type of Community Engagement Request* This field is required.
Please Select
Please Select
Host a Stall
Collaborate on Event/Activity
headspace Presentation
Something else
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Who are you expecting to reach?
Please Select
Please Select
Young people aged 12 - 25
Staff
Service Providers
Other / not applicable
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If you are wanting us to attend an event, let us know if you are expecting to reach young people from the following demographics:* This field is required.We will prioritise requests that support us to work with our priority groups. You can select more then one option!
Young men
First Nations
Culturally & Linguistically Diverse
LGBTIQAP+
None of the above
Not running an event
Other
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Have you run this activity/event before?* This field is required.
YESNO
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Location of activity/event (if known)
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Date of activity/event (if known)Please note we require at least 4 weeks notice to be able to service your request
Date
Year
Month
Day
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If you are running an event/activity, have you run it before?
Please Select
Please Select
Yes
No
Not running an event
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What time are we needed / how long? (if known)
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If you are hoping for us to run a stall, please let us know if you need us to bring any of the below items:* This field is required.If you are hoping for us to run a stall, please let us know if you need us to bring any of the below items:
Marquee
Table
Nothing, we have you covered!
Not running a stall
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Give us the details! * This field is required.How would you like us to be involved? Why would you like us there? Have we worked together before? What is attendance like? Who are the other participating agencies/services/community groups?
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