Count Me In

THERE IS A CANDLELIGHT VIGIL happening THIS TUESDAY NIGHT around Australia in your local communities  (10th August 2010).  Bring candles and lanterns and join in.  There’ll be local singing groups and public speakers to talk about mental health in the community.  Gather people and bring them along and let’s let Nicola Roxon know people will not let her get away with  slashing medicare funding for OTs and Social Workers and underfunding Mental Health Services.

• What: Candlelight vigil for better mental health services
• When: Gather from 6pm
• WHERE: Check this link to find the one closest to you

The services Nicola Roxon is cutting funding for are life saving services and are particularly relevant to those teens and adults with developmental disabilities who also have mental health problems whose complex needs cannot be adequately met by medication from psychiatrists or psychologists alone.  Please let others know about this important issue.  If enough people show the Minister for Health will have to start listening.

Also 10,000 signatures is required to try and change this by December 2010. Please add yours.  Can you help get signatures from friends, local GP practices, your community?  Here’s the petition.

Richardson House petition-1

Please print it out.  Once signed they need to all be sent to the address at the foot of the petition.

Thanks for giving a damn.

Warmly,
Donna Williams, BA Hons, Dip Ed.
Author, artist, singer-songwriter, screenwriter.
Autism consultant and public speaker.

http://www.myspace.com/nobodynowherethefilm
http://www.donnawilliams.net
http://www.aspinauts.com