Finding Balance Competitors

At Mind Australia, we put people first. That means seeing the person, not a diagnosis or label, and taking time to understand what matters to them. We work alongside people during tough times. We know living with mental health challenges isn’t easy, so we make space, listen and seek to understand where people have been, where they are now and where they want to be. This helps us provide the right support while continuing to learn what works for people, families and communities. We are one of Australia’s largest providers of community-managed psychosocial services, offering residential, mobile outreach, centre-based and online support. Alongside One Door Mental Health and The Haven Foundation, we provide individualised, evidence-based and recovery-focused support to more than 25,000 people each year. We’ve supported people, and their families, friends, carers and supporters, for nearly 50 years. Some of our most important lessons have come not from textbooks, but from people who have walked these paths themselves. This lived experience continues to shape everything we do. We value lived experience and lived expertise. Many people across our workforce draw on their own experiences of mental health challenges, recovery and supporting others to improve services, influence the sector and drive change. We do this in partnership with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander organisations and communities, and alongside clinical care providers, because working together leads to better outcomes.

The Butterfly Foundation represents all people affected by eating disorders – a person with an eating disorder, their family and their friends. As a leading national voice in supporting their needs, Butterfly highlights the realities of seeking treatment for recovery, and advocates for improved services from both government and independent sources. Butterfly operates a National Helpline, which is staffed by counsellors experienced in assisting with eating disorders. It also provides a wide range of facilities for service providers and recovery groups. Because Butterfly recognises that eating disorders often arise from poor body image, it delivers a range of Positive Body Image workshops to schools and workplaces through its education program. It has a strong media presence to raise awareness of Butterfly’s perspective in community debates about body image and eating disorders.

SANE supports all people in Australia affected by complex mental health issues. We exist to break barriers, raise expectations, and champion the voices of people with lived experience and their families and communities; to increase peer-led, connected support and drive systemic change. SANE is unique in our focus of supporting people who experience complex mental health issues, trauma, and supporting the mental health of those who are autistic and people with intellectual disability. We provide a range of free digital and telehealth support services including peer support, counselling, community forums, peer-led groups, art and social groups and information resources. SANE is widely respected as a lived experience-led organisation and advocate with a long history of collaboration across and beyond the mental health and suicide prevention sectors. Guided by our vision, goals, values and behaviours, we help create brighter futures for all people and families facing the challenges of complex mental health issues by working towards ending mental health inequity and social and economic exclusion. To learn more, visit sane.org.