Schizophrenia Awareness

Schizophrenia Awareness Week is an annual event held in May each year that MIFA and its member organisations use to highlight issues that affect people living with a mental illness, their families and friends.

Schizophrenia Awareness Week for 2011 is from Sunday May 15 to Saturday May 21.

On Saturday 21 May 2011 at an event in Sydney at the Masonic Centre a panel of experts and our MC Julie McCrossin, will gather and await the rest of Australia to join them.

MIFA member organisations around Australia are holding simultaneous group events for their members and friends to participate in the national event as a group or people can also use the internet to join from home.

MIFA hopes that this event will not only draw Australia’s attention to the issue of the physical health of people affected by mental illness but will also focus our efforts on actions that will assist individuals to take the necessary steps to build hope for a better future with improved physical health.

The aim of this new event is to get all of Australia talking and thinking about the physical health of people affected by mental illness by:
• Discussing the latest evidence about the health of people living with a mental illness and what we need to do about it.
• Building hope for a better future by identifying practical things we can all do to improve the physical health of people with a mental illness.
• Enjoying a lively discussion with audience participation from around Australia and from people at home.

Additional information about how to get involved will be posted as soon as it is available.

State member organisations also run a range of other activities during the week.

To see what some speakers had to say, click here for the Speakers Archive.

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