Raising Minds

22/10/2026

💛 Bundaberg families, you don't have to figure it all out alone.
When you're supporting a child or young person through complex mental health challenges, knowing where to turn or how to help isn't always easy.
That's why Resilience in Reach is coming back to Bundaberg with two FREE, practical, peer-led workshops designed for parents, carers, family and kin.

🟢 Finding Your Way | Wednesday 28 October

Feel more confident navigating mental health and education systems, finding support and advocating for your young person.

🔵 Speaking Their Language | Friday 30 October

Explore ways to better understand your young person, ease communication challenges and stay connected through difficult times.

📍 Bridges Health & Community Care

🕤 9:30 am - 11:30 am, with doors opening at 9 am for a relaxed cuppa and free morning tea.

These workshops are about more than finding practical tools. They're also a chance to meet others who understand, share experiences and feel a little less alone.

Free to attend. 🔗 Find out more and register at rir.raisingminds.org.au/bundaberg

💚 Know a Bundaberg parent, carer or family who might benefit? Send them this reel.

21/10/2026

“You kind of - as a carer - always think that you have to do it on your own, which is really nonsense.” 💛 This Carers Week, we're sharing Kelley's words because we know how easy it can be to feel like you have to carry everything yourself.

As a carer, Kelley understands the challenges of supporting a young person through complex mental health experiences, and the difference it can make to find people who truly understand.
That's what Resilience in Reach is all about.
Created with and for parents, carers, families and kin, our free, peer-led workshops and Virtual Village bring people together to share experiences, find practical support and build confidence.

And perhaps most importantly, to find hope.

As Kelley puts it, “It gives you hope. It gives you hope.”
To every parent, carer, family member and kinship carer supporting a young person - you deserve support and connection, too.

💚 Know someone who needs to hear Kelley's words? Share this with them.

Explore our free workshops, Virtual Village and resources at rir.raisingminds.org.au

20/10/2026

💛 Logan families, this one's for you!
When you're supporting a child or young person through complex mental health challenges, it's easy to put your own needs aside or feel unsure how best to help.

Our next two FREE Resilience in Reach workshops in Logan are all about finding practical ways forward, connecting with others who understand and building confidence along the way.

❤️ Resourcing Your Journey | Thursday 22 October
12 pm - 2 pm

Supporting someone you love can take a lot out of you. Explore realistic self-care strategies, recognise your strengths and find ways to look after your own wellbeing while supporting your young person.

🧡 Setting Out | Tuesday 3 November
12 pm - 2 pm

Explore ways to support your child or young person through distress and difficult experiences, build on your family's strengths and discover practical strategies to help navigate challenging moments.

📍 Logan Central Library

Both workshops are free, peer-led and designed for parents, carers, family and kin supporting children and young people experiencing complex mental health challenges.

There's no expectation to have all the answers. Just come as you are, share what feels comfortable and connect with people who understand.

💚 Know a Logan parent, carer or family who might benefit? Send them this post or tag someone who could help spread the word.

🔗 Explore upcoming workshops and register for free at https://rir.raisingminds.org.au/brisbane-workshops/

Supporting a a child or young person with complex mental health can be exhausting. Join our Brisbane workshops for parents & kin. 100% lived experience led. 100% free to attend - no clinical jargon, just real support from people who understand.

10/10/2026

A little self-compassion can go a long way.
When so much of your energy goes into supporting your child or young person, being kind to yourself can easily fall to the bottom of the list.
This World Mental Health Day, our practical tip is a small one: notice how you speak to yourself when things haven't gone to plan.
You don't need to have every answer or handle every difficult moment perfectly. Sometimes the most useful thing you can do is give yourself the same patience and understanding you'd offer someone else.
What would you say to another parent or carer who was having a hard day? Could you offer a little of that kindness to yourself today? 💚

06/10/2026

Bundaberg parents, carers, family and kin - these free workshops are for you. 💚
Supporting a child or young person experiencing complex mental health challenges can mean navigating services, advocating for their needs, and trying to stay connected through some really difficult moments.

This October, Raising Minds is coming back to Bundaberg with two free, practical workshops created for parents, carers, family and kin:

🧭 Finding Your Way - Navigating Systems & Services to Support Young People
Wednesday 28 October | 9:30 am - 11:30 am

💬 Speaking Their Language - Connecting With Your Child or Young Person
Friday 30 October | 9:30 am - 11:30 am
Doors open at 9am both dates for a relaxed morning tea, feel welcome to stay for a free lunch after!

Come along for practical information, useful strategies and connection with people who understand that supporting a young person with complex mental health challenges isn't always straightforward.

Places are limited, so register to join us in Bundaberg: rir.raisingminds.org.au/bundaberg

Supporting a a child or young person with complex mental health can be exhausting. Join our Bundaberg workshops for parents & kin. 100% lived experience led. 100% free to attend - no clinical jargon, just real support from people who understand.

05/10/2026

Build Community. Build Wellbeing.
This Queensland Mental Health Week is about moving beyond awareness and into action - and recognising the everyday connections that help us feel supported and like we belong.
For parents, carers, family and kin supporting a child or young person through complex mental health challenges, that connection can really matter.

It might be talking to someone who just gets it. Learning from another family’s lived experience. Finding information that makes the next step a little clearer. Or simply being in a space where you don’t have to explain quite so much.

At Raising Minds, we know connection can help build confidence too - confidence to ask questions, navigate systems, advocate for your young person and make informed decisions about what comes next.

Because supporting our young people also means making sure the people walking alongside them feel informed, connected and supported.

04/10/2026

You might hear the words "complex mental health” used by health professionals, schools or support services - but what does that actually mean for your child, and for your family?

Complex mental health can describe challenges that are severe, ongoing, happening together, or affecting different parts of a child or young person’s life - at home, at school, in relationships or in the community.

Sometimes there are multiple diagnoses. Sometimes there might be one diagnosis that offers daily complexity. Sometimes there isn’t a clear diagnosis yet. And sometimes a young person’s needs simply don’t fit neatly into one box.

For families, “complex” can take on a whole other meaning too.

It can mean navigating different professionals, services and systems, advocating for your young person and trying to work out where they fit.

Some families may even have experienced the frustration of being told their child’s needs are “too complex” for one type of support, while “not complex enough” for another.

If you’ve found yourself caught somewhere in between, trying to understand what support is available and where to turn next, you’re not alone in finding the system difficult to navigate.

Raising Minds supports parents, carers, families and kin of children and young people experiencing complex mental health with information, self-advocacy, connection and lived-experience support.

01/10/2026

October marks the UN's Mental Health Awareness Month 💚
For many parents, carers, families and kin, their child or young person's mental health isn’t something they think about for one month of the year. It’s part of everyday life.
It can look like advocating for your child or young person with school and clinicians, navigating services, supporting them through difficult days, celebrating progress others might not see, and trying to look after yourself somewhere in between.

This month, we want to make space for those experiences too.
For the families supporting children and young people through complex mental health challenges. For the conversations that can be difficult to have. And for greater understanding, connection and support - not just in October, but all year round.

Throughout Mental Health Awareness Month, we’ll be sharing information, lived experience and practical support to help families feel more informed, connected and supported.
Because supporting the mental health of children and young people also means supporting the people who walk alongside them. 💚

24/09/2026

"They just won't.”
Won't get ready. Won't go to school. Won't talk. Won't do the thing you've asked five times.

When you're already stretched, it can be incredibly frustrating.

But sometimes it can help to change the question.
Instead of “Why won't they?”, try:
What might be making this hard right now?”

There may be overwhelm, anxiety, sensory discomfort, too many steps, difficulty finding the words, or something else entirely getting in the way.
It doesn't mean every boundary disappears or that difficult behaviour suddenly becomes easy to navigate.
It's simply an invitation to get curious about what might be happening underneath what we can see.
Sometimes changing the question can change the conversation. 🧡

Save this for a hard day, or share it with someone supporting a young person alongside you.

23/09/2026

There are some things that take a lot of explaining.

Until you're talking to another parent or carer who's been there. 🧡

The plans that change at the last minute.

That feeling when the school's number appears on your phone.

The wins that might seem tiny to someone else, but feel enormous in your family.

The paperwork, appointments and mental load.

And the exhaustion of having to tell your family's story from the beginning, one more time.

Sometimes there's comfort in simply hearing:
"I get it. You don't have to explain.”

That's one of the things that makes peer connection so powerful.

Parents, carers, family and kin - what would you add to the list?