Help to manage the holiday and harvest season
In what has already been a challenging 2020, we are now fast approaching a time of year which traditionally places extra strain on our mental health. Managing the ‘end of year rush’, farm-related fatigue, over-indulgence in food and alcohol, and the challenges of social interaction (or isolation) means this is not always the joyful time portrayed.
Farmer Health resources providing practical ways to support you, your family and friends:
Managing Stress on the Farm booklet
Factsheets including fatigue, harvest health, healthy lunchbox ideas, alcohol, relationships and family, and stress
If you need professional support during this time, our Online Psychology service is available
Australia’s only postgraduate Agricultural Health and Medicine unit (HMF701) goes online in 2021 for the first time!
Applications are now open for this exciting 5-day intensive, which will be online from 22-26 February 2021 as a key part of the unit. The presenters cover a broad range of health, wellbeing and safety issues ranging from mental illness and addiction through to emergency medicine, agrichemicals, zoonotic disease, non-communicable disease and agricultural trauma. The course material provides graduates with the necessary skills and knowledge to improve the social, physical and mental health of agricultural workforces and farming women, men and children across Australia.
Join the intensive from your home or workplace, and connect with our cross-sector network of professionals making a difference in rural communities.
We are looking for people passionate about supporting mentally healthy workplaces for Victoria’s farming and fishing communities.
Community Champions will be provided with online training about the Primary Producer Knowledge Network (PPKN) along with a communications pack to share information about the project. Do you have strong networks with primary producers? We have an exciting opportunity for you to make a real difference as part of our PPKN Community Champions.
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