Entertainment Assist: Suffering From Depression? You are not alone!

Entertainment Assist is an Australian based charity whose mission is for mental health in the Australian entertainment industry to be actively and openly addressed and to promote and facilitate enhancement of mental health and wellbeing in the Australian entertainment industry.

Are you suffering from depression? You are not alone.

GOOD MENTAL HEALTH MEANS BEING ABLE TO PARTICIPATE IN LIFE, BEING CONFIDENT AND HAVING SELF-ESTEEM.

With good mental health we can enjoy being around other people and our environment, fully explore our skills and creativity. Good mental health supports resilience and relationships.

While the arts and entertainment sector brings an enormous amount of joy to Australians, recent research has identified that performers, technicians and other support workers experience an unusually high incidence of depression, anxiety and other aspects of mental distress that are also leading to high rates of suicide.

RESPECT, COMPASSION & COLLABORATION FOR MENTAL HEALTH & WELLBEING IN THE AUSTRALIAN ENTERTAINMENT INDUSTRY

Entertainment Assist is dedicated to raising awareness about mental health in the Australian entertainment industry by commissioning research, advocating for workplace and educational transformation and identifying support pathways for those in distress.

Vision:

For mental health in the Australian entertainment industry to be actively and openly addressed.

Mission:

To promote and facilitate enhancement of mental health and wellbeing in the Australian entertainment industry.

Values:

Respect. Compassion. Collaboration.

About Entertainmnet Assist:

Entertainment Assist is a national health promotion charity that raises awareness about mental health and wellbeing in the Australian entertainment industry and advocates for generational change where:

• Industry workers are educated to be aware of their own mental wellbeing,
• Industry workers are educated to support their peers around mental health; and
• Industry employers actively support the mental health and wellbeing of employees.

Governed by a Board of Directors, Entertainment Assist is committed to reducing the shockingly high rates of anxiety, depression, suicide, isolation and other matters associated with working in the Australian entertainment industry.

Entertainment Assist is for everyone working in the Australian performing arts and entertainment industry including performers, support workers, crew and technicians.

By encouraging open conversations in workplaces from concert halls to rehearsal studios and construction workshops, Entertainment Assist supports a resilient industry culture through peer-to-peer, advocacy, education and research.

Entertainment Assist’s advocacy is based on its research, education and training initiatives, identification of appropriate resources and promotion of appropriate mental health practices in performing arts and entertainment industry workplaces.  We aim to communicate these resources as widely as possible by working collaboratively with entertainment industry colleagues including our peers, industry associations, membership organisations, individual employers and expert bodies.

Australians – Check out their site for more information especially if you or a colleague need support.

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Twitter: @entertainassist

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