Displaying items by tag: mental health

Workshops being held across the country are equipping farmers and rural professionals with the tools to recognise and support those who are struggling.

The Herlihy family’s 24-hour charity Shearathon, raising money for mental health and suicide prevention in the shearing industry, could become an annual fixture following the success of the recent North Canterbury event.  

The Whanau in the award-winning mental health programme GoodYarn has just got bigger.

A new Deakin study proves simple dietary changes can be used as a possible treatment for depression.

Award-winning mental health scheme GoodYarn is writing a new chapter as it grows around the country.

Rural mental health has been given a funding boost of $600,000.

The Rural Health Alliance Aotearoa New Zealand (RHĀNZ) is taking a lead role in two of the Government's rural mental wellness initiatives announced at Fieldays yesterday.

The psychological theory of 'self-efficacy' is being used by Massey University agricultural and social scientists to create greater self-belief in hill country farmers.

Farmstrong is a fresh initiative to promote the wellbeing of all farmers and growers in New Zealand.

The sale of milk tanker miniatures by Fonterra Farm Source stores is generating cash to help support rural mental health projects run by Rural Health Alliance Aotearoa New Zealand (RHANZ).