What is Equip?
Equip is a national, community-based mental wellbeing program helping regional people to prepare for environmental challenges like fire, floods and drought.
Our research team is working with communities to:
Develop skills to cope and work together in a crisis;
Boost mental wellbeing and fitness;
Increase feelings of readiness and enhance preparedness, and
Create lasting solutions tailored to their population and location
Would you like to know more?
The Project Team will be working in rural communities across WA, SA, and NSW. If you’d like to know more, please sign up to our mailing list below
The Project team come from across Australia. The project is supported by the Medical Research Future Fund.
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For any enquiries contact equip@une.edu.au
Environmental threats such as fire and drought are associated with protracted poor mental health outcomes in rural communities. Equip marks a shift from recovery-based approaches, to building preparedness and resilience. It provides a road map for leveraging community leadership to foster wellbeing and protect communities in future extreme weather events.
UNE Associate Professor Suzie Cosh
Protecting homes and buildings is important but it is people that are the heart of every community. The trauma experienced is real, ongoing and significant. Accordingly, it is essential that we equip communities with the necessary tools to psychologically prepare for disasters. Managing the psychological impact of a disaster must be part of any conversation around disaster preparedness and teaching these skills must be part of the preparation process.
Disaster Relief Australia Resilience Manager Shari BentInvesting in preventive mental health measures for Australians means we’ll be ready to deal with the mental consequences of the next COVID or bushfire.
Assistant Minister for Mental Health and Suicide Prevention & Rural and Regional Health The Hon Emma McBride MP
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