Community Engagement Request Form

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Our Community Engagement Team

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 organisations. We are keen to do this by collaborating with education providers in the Hunter by offering presentations about headspace services, participating and partnering on activities/events/something cool!

Our priority groups include young men, disengaged young people, 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 help 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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Looking for mental health education?

Our Community Engagement team is not able to provide presentations or workshops on mental health. Click here for info on evidenced-based, clinician-led programs, and other offerings specifically developed for schools that may be able to service your request.

Please continue with this Request Form if you are not looking for mental health education but are keen to hear about how else we can work with you
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How can we work together?

Learn about headspace

We can come out and present to students / parents & carers / educators and school staff about headspace Maitland and Cessnock services.

Our presentations have a focus on building young people's understanding of headspace services and their capacity to seek help early. Presentations are approx.1 hour and touch on the below topics:

What is headspace and where are we located

Why would you come to headspace

Mental Health/Healthy Headspace Tips

What programs/services we offer and what support looks like

Groups/programs we have available at our centres

Our Youth Reference Group (YRG) and how to get involved

How to reach out if you want support

We may also have the opportunity to bring along a young person from our YRG or with lived expereince of mental health challenges to share their personal journey with headspace.

headspace attending your event

If your school/uni/tafe is planning an event which 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 or activate a "safe space", providing opportunities for students to interact with us.

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:

Co-designing an LGBTIQAP+ social group embedded in a secondary school

Co-Leading an after school creative group

Shed Talks (mental health talks at local soccer clubs)

Toolbox talks

School Camp/retreat talk

Please continue with this Request Form if your query fits with the above criteria
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Name of School / Uni / Tafe* 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
Service Presentation
Host a Stall
Collaborate on Event/Activity
Participate as headspace reps
Something else
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Are you expecting majority of attendees to be aged between 12 - 25 years old?* This field is required.Please note we will only attend events where this age group is the main audience
YESNO
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Approximately how many people are you expecting at the activity/event?* This field is required.
Less then 20 people
20 - 50 people
50 - 100 people
100 - 250 people
Over 250 people
Not sure
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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
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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)
Date
Year
Month
Day
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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.Please note that it may impact our ability to attend your event if we are required to bring a full stall set-up.
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 resources are required e.g. flyers, merchandise
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