See our duty of care for social media use: https://headspace.org.au/duty-of-care/ headspace can help you with:
• General Health
• Mental Health and Counselling
• Relationships, Contraception and Sexual Health
• Education, Employment and other services
• Alcohol and Other Drug services
• And lots more! So we’re here for you if you:
• are feeling down, stressed or can't stop worrying
• haven't felt like yourself for a long time
• can't deal with school or finding it difficult to concentrate
• are feeling sick or worried about your health
• want to cut down on your drinking or drug use
• want to talk about sexuality, identity or relationships
• are having difficulties with friendships
• have sexual health issues or want to find out about contraception
• are being bullied, hurt or harassed
• are worried about work or study or if you're having money trouble
• want to talk to about your ideas, goals and how to achieving them
headspace is a place you can go to talk to someone about any of these issues. We aim to offer help which is:
1. Confidential
4. Youth Friendly
5. High Quality
6. Tailored to your needs and circumstances by involving you in planning and refining your support
7. Respectful, non-judgemental and upholds your rights
8. And keeps you safe
And it’s FREE! headspace - Social Media Terms of Use
The headspace social media pages are for people to find out more about headspace and headspace centres, the services we offer, as well as discussions about important mental health and youth issues. headspace monitors it’s social media pages between 9am to 5pm Mondays to Fridays only. Outside those hours, and on public holidays, headspace posts are occasionally automatically generated and the social media pages will not be looked at and moderated until the following business day, 9am to 5pm. Please be respectful of all points of view, and refrain from personal attacks on other users. headspace will remove any posts which:
1. are likely to be offensive to other readers
2. discusses methods or depicts images of su***de or self-harm
3. discussed drug usage in an unbalanced way, e.g. omit the negative effects
4. contains unhelpful advice, such as blaming a person for their depression
5. is dogmatic, such as setting out courses of action as “the only way”
6. is racist, sexist or discriminatory
7. is obscene, or uses graphic sexual language
8. is defamatory, or overly critical of services or organisations which provide help to others
9. for any other reason is likely to cause harm/distress to other young people reading the story
10. are posted for commercial purposes
11. promote inaccurate, inappropriate or harmful health advice. headspace recognises that sometimes people need immediate help and support. The headspace social media pages do not provide counselling or crisis services. If you need immediate assistance, please call Kids Helpline on 1800 55 1800 or Lifeline on 13 11 14. In an emergency, please call 000. If a post on any headspace social media page indicates a person may be at risk of harm, headspace will reply to the post as soon as possible and provide information on counselling and crisis support services. In some instances headspace may report a post which indicates a person may be at risk of harm to authorities, including the police. headspace can take no responsibility for comments from followers on the headspace social media pages.
