Supporting Farmers in the Wheatbelt

Like many West Australians, our WA farmers feel increased economic pressure to get food on the table, on everyone’s table.

The impact of the extended Dry Season and the Live Sheep Export Ban is increasing that pressure and so the Holyoake Wheatbelt Prevention Team has created a range of materials to disseminate in response to these significant risks to agribusiness employees.

Working with the Chair of the Dry Season Taskforce, established by the Minister for Agriculture, the Department of Primary Industry and Regional Development and other key Agricultural Organisations, a Mental Health & Wellbeing Continuum Guide has been created, linking mental health and the negative influences of stress, situational distress and adverse life experiences.

The first in a series, the guide also acknowledges that individuals, by adopting healthy lifestyle behaviours, seeking support from others and partaking in help seeking behaviours can move up the Continuum to a healthier state of wellbeing, identifying triggers to support themselves or someone they care about.

For free ongoing support for individuals, families and communities linked to farming and agribusinesses across the Wheatbelt please contact Holyoake today or read the continuum guide here.