headspace Broken Hill is a free and confidential youth mental health service for young people aged 12-24. headspace Broken Hill's page is for people to find out more about headspace Broken Hill, the services we offer, and to discuss important mental health and other youth issues. Please be respectful of all points of view, and refrain from personal attacks on other users. headspace Broken
Hill will remove any posts which:
- are likely to be offensive to other readers
- discuss methods of suicide or self-harm
- discuss drug usage in an unbalanced way, e.g. omit the negative effects
- contains unhelpful advice, such as blaming a person for their depression
- dogmatic, such as setting out courses of action as "the only way"
- is racist, sexist or discriminatory
- is obscene, or uses graphic sexual language
- is defamatory, or overtly critical of services or organisations which provide help to others
- for any other reason is likely to cause harm/distress to other young people reading the story
- are posted for commercial purposes
- promote inaccurate, inappropriate or harmful health advice
headspace Broken Hill will remove posts promoting organisations, products, services, events, competitions or information that is not relevant to the post. If you think your organisation, product service, event or competition may be relevant to the headspace Broken Hill community, please send us an email at [email protected] with information and we’ll be in touch. In certain circumstances, if a post raises concerns about your safety, we may try to contact you to check that you and/or others are safe. If there are significant concerns, we may need to pass on your contact information to authorities who can help protect you and/or others, such as a crisis service or the police. We are obliged to try to protect you and/or others if the information you submit tells us that:
- you are being seriously hurt by someone else
- you are thinking of seriously harming yourself, and
- someone else is being, or is likely to be, seriously hurt by you or another person. Please note headspace Broken Hill recognises that sometimes people need immediate help and support. The headspace Broken Hill page cannot provide you with specific counselling, crisis services or support. If you need immediate assistance please call Kids Helpline on 1800 55 1800 or Lifeline on 13 11 14. headspace Broken Hill does not check the page over the weekend or on public holidays. headspace Broken Hill will take no responsibility for comments on our page, or any interactions people may have on or off our page. headspace has centres across Australia & online counselling at eheadspace.org.au. This page is for information only and can not offer support or emergency assistance.
