Community Engagement Request

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Our Community Engagement Team

Our Community Awareness and Engagement Coordinator works 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, services, and community groups based on the Sunshine Coast by offering presentations about headspace services, and participating and partnering on activities/events/something cool!

Our priority groups include young men, First Nations, experiencing or at risk of experiencing homelessness, experiencing alcohol & other drug issues, and LGBTIQAP+ young people. Requests for community engagement and participation will be prioritised in relation to these groups.

Use this form to contact our team, 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 evidence-based, clinical-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?

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

Chat to our Community Engagement Team

It's important for our Community Engagement Team to keep up to date with what's on in the community. If you have information you'd like to pass on to our team or would like to organise a time to come and check out our centre, let us know!

Learn about headspace Caloundra

We can come out and present to students / parents & carers / educators and staff about headspace Caloundra services. Our Youth Advisory Council (YAC) recommends smaller groups are best to create meaningful engagement with young people. Let's work together to find the best way to present to your community!

We have a focus on building young people's understanding of headspace services and their capacity to seek help early. We explore the below topics:

What is headspace and where are we located

Why would you 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 involved

How to reach out if you want support

headspace attending your event

If your service/agency/school 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 encourage creativity and fun ways we can create meaningful engagement with young people!

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.

Please continue with this Request Form if your query fits with the above criteria
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Community Engagement Request Form

Our community team works Monday to Wednesday between 8am and 5pm. At our discretion, we can consider requests for major events/activities outside of these days if it meets our criteria or if other headspace team members have capacity. We receive a high volume of requests and whilst we wish we could say yes to every event, we need to prioritise based on our availability and priority areas. Please complete this form and include as much information as possible so we can determine if the acitivity is in line with our target groups and community engagement plan.
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Name of Service / School / 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.
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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
Chat to our team
Something else
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Are you expecting majority of attendees to be aged between 12 - 25 years old?Please note we will prioritise events where this age group is the main audience
YESNO
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Let us know if you are expecting to reach young people from the following demographics:We will prioritise requests that support us to work with our priority groups. You can select more than one option!
Young men
First Nations
LGBTIQAP+
Experiencing or at risk of homelessness
Experiencing alcohol & other drug issues
None of the above
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Approximately how many people are you expecting at the activity/event?
Less than 20 people
20 - 50 people
50 - 100 people
100 - 250 people
Over 250 people
Not sure
Other
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Have you run this activity/event before?
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
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What time are we needed / how long? (if known)
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If you are requesting 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
Other
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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? What resources are required? Who are the other participating agencies/services/community groups?
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Large
Normal
Small
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