The Break it Down project content is now more accessible to North Queenslanders thanks to a collaboration with Hitnet.

Around three-quarters of the people who die by suicide in the Whitsunday, Isaac, and Mackay region are men. These men are aged from teenagers to the elderly - they are our brothers, sons, husbands, workmates, friends, and neighbours.

Tania Kelly Health Consultant has recently opened in Mackay, providing much needed additional mental health and addiction services to the region.

Northern Queensland Primary Health Network (NQPHN) commissioned Beacon Strategies to finalise the development of the Cairns and Hinterland Suicide Prevention Community Action Plan (SPCAP).

“If you’ve been feeling down or like something’s not right, it’s important to reach out.” That is the key message of a series of short videos which aim to promote awareness of mental health support among northern Queensland Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities.

The North Queensland Toyota Cowboys and The Resilience Project (TRP) are excited to be working with over 5,000 Cairns students, teachers and parents this week as the schools take their first step as part of the ‘TRP Northern family’.

Northern Queensland Primary Health Network (NQPHN) is pleased to announce that it has received funding from the Commonwealth Department of Health to establish two headspace satellites, one in Sarina and one in the Whitsundays.

Northern Queensland Primary Health Network (NQPHN) is now inviting tender submissions for the provision of appropriately skilled service providers to undertake a review and further development of the draft Cairns Suicide Prevention Community Action Plan (SPCAP).

Northern Queensland Primary Health Network (NQPHN) is now inviting tender submissions for the provision of psychosocial support services in the Cairns, Townsville, and Mackay regions.

In the 2017-18 Budget the Australian Government committed $80 million over four years for the National Psychosocial Support (NPS) measure. The purpose of the NPS measure is to provide psychosocial support services to assist people with severe mental illness resulting in reduced psychosocial functional capacity who are not more appropriately funded through the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS).