2024 Building a Better Community Award - Barmera Monash Football Club Wellbeing Committee
Mental health and wellbeing are everybody’s business, this committee was founded to provide support to players, coaches, families, and other community members which is something that has never been done in the Riverland before. This group saw an area that the community struggled in and used initiative to create solutions.
This group has provided support and resources to those around them, as well as focusing on topics that aren’t talked about enough such as men’s mental health. They have provided free mental health training to various people in the community and have also organised wellbeing rounds of football, mental health speakers to talk to the players and coaches and encouraged them to get around each other and speak up when they need.
Each committee member has overcome their own issues with mental health and are now using what they have learn to help other people and have put aside their own issues to support the community. This group has been recognised through various grants which allow them to provide support for the community
