TSNA will be providing support and resources for Crewmen members in need. In addition, TNSA will be working closely with Crewmen on joint initiatives such as rides and workshops in order to raise awareness surrounding mental health.
The Next Step Australia is a pathway for men that enables them to get help and seek support for mental health difficulties. They aim to help men combat depression, anxiety, PTSD, stress and suicidal thoughts and plans. No one should go through these things alone yet men often feel that they have to.
The Next Step Australia is seeking to foster community awareness of men’s mental health and the availability of mental healthcare resources to treat and prevent mental challenges and struggles in men by,
- Providing financial assistance to men with financial barriers who are in crisis (thoughts or plans of suicide) to get professional help in the form of psychiatric, psychologist or counselling services
- Providing community suicide training, Applied Suicide Intervention Skills Training (ASIST), through a registered provider to train community members with mental health intervention skills to better support individuals that require assistance
- Providing post suicide support to families who have lost a loved one to suicide by meeting with families, providing meals and other carer services e.g. gardener/maintenance person
- Raising awareness through community talks at TNSA events, schools/trade colleges, sporting or community clubs and other like-minded organisations
- Running free workshops for men in the community, known as ‘Mindful Men’ and ‘Men’s Support Group’ for men to come together and share their mental health struggles, seek help and guidance and normalise mental health difficulties to assist in reducing the stigmas associated with men seeking help for their mental health
- Using TNSA’s instagram, facebook & website as reach out platforms in which men can ask or seek assistance as a local messaging service within the community as an alternative to larger organisation such as Life-Line, Suicide Call Back Service and Beyond Blue which are often seen as confronting by men experiencing mental health struggles to engage with