New generation ReachOut.com goes live
ReachOut.com, Australia’s leading online youth mental health service, has gone mobile to provide critical services to a new generation of young people. The service has been optimised for smart-phones...
View ArticleZak Norris takes out first place in the ReachOut.com Film Crew Competition....
Congratulations to the winner of ReachOut.com’s Film Crew Competition, Zak Norris. Check out his winning video, “Balloons.” The 2013 ReachOut Film Crew Competition was aimed at young film makers aged...
View ArticleYoung people go online for help during tough times
The ReachOut.com National Survey 2012 has found that young people in distress look for help online rather than seek help from a mental health professional. The cross-sectional study of more than 3,600...
View ArticleCity2Surf runners raise over $25k for ReachOut.com
On Sunday, 11 August 2013, 20 ReachOut supporters ran Sydney’s City2Surf – the world’s largest fun run – and raised an incredible $27,598 for ReachOut.com. This money will fund new initiatives for...
View ArticleReachOut Local Leaders teaching resource supports students to make change
To be delivered through ReachOut.com Professionals, Australian teachers and school communities will soon have a new resource available to them for supporting young people to effect local change....
View ArticleReachOut.com turns it on for the Mardi Gras Festival
This time last week we were undergoing last-minute preparations for ReachOut.com’s first ever participation in Sydney’s Mardi Gras Parade, the culmination of a month-long festival in support of the...
View ArticleCEO Message – Let’s honour Ian Thorpe’s courage by doing something today
Last night’s Michael Parkinson interview with swimming great Ian Thorpe was an outstanding step forward in the conversation about mental health in Australia. On behalf of the team at ReachOut.com, I...
View ArticleParliamentarians get hands-on with ReachOut.com
Young leaders from ReachOut.com took Parliamentarians on a hands on tour of e-mental health services at Parliament House on Tuesday night. In a unique event co-hosted with the Parliamentary Friends of...
View ArticleReachOut.com jumps aboard the R U OK? bus tour
ReachOut.com joined the R U OK? bus tour this week, a 5-week east coast trip culminating in Sydney on 11th September. This year’s campaign from R U OK? involves an attempt to sign up 23,000...
View ArticleThere’s Life After Year 12 Exams
220,000 young Australians are about to go through one of the most stressful times of their lives: Year 12 exams. Many feel like their entire life depends on their Year 12 results – but those of...
View ArticleCEO Message – #TheresLifeAfter Year 12 exams
This week more than 76,000 Year 12 students in NSW will start their final exams. By the end of November, in excess of 220,000 young people around the country will have done the same. For those of...
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