Media releases

Beyond Blue and community partner Hawthorn Football Club are encouraging football fans to get involved in the Play Your Role campaign to mark the 2020 AFL Beyond Blue Cup.

Eight people who found a way through suicidal thoughts and feelings have shared their personal stories of hope with Beyond Blue to mark World Suicide Prevention Day 2020 and help bring suicide out of the shadows.

Beyond Blue is encouraging people to adopt the theme of this year’s NRL Beyond Blue Cup and play their role in supporting the mental health of those close to them.

More than 2,000 trekkers in Brisbane and Sydney will hike 15km, 30km, or 60km in their neighbourhoods for the first ever Virtual Coastrek event supporting Beyond Blue on September 4.

Beyond Blue and Financial Counselling Australia (FCA) are encouraging people to access free support services to cope with the economic impacts of the coronavirus pandemic.

Two in three contacts to the Coronavirus Mental Wellbeing Support Service are now coming from Victoria. Over the month of July, about 64 per cent of calls and webchats to the Coronavirus Mental Wellbeing Support Service came from people in Victoria. Nineteen per cent of contacts were from NSW, based on available data.