{"id":4819,"date":"2020-01-11T10:36:15","date_gmt":"2020-01-11T10:36:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/?p=4819"},"modified":"2020-01-11T10:36:15","modified_gmt":"2020-01-11T10:36:15","slug":"mental-health-support-during-bushfire-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2020\/01\/11\/mental-health-support-during-bushfire-crisis\/","title":{"rendered":"MENTAL HEALTH SUPPORT DURING BUSHFIRE CRISIS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The NSW Government is deploying teams of mental health clinicians to support people suffering from the bushfire crisis to help rebuild their lives.<br \/>\nMinister for Mental Health Bronnie Taylor said specialist Bushfire Recovery Clinicians will work right across NSW to support individuals, carers and families.<br \/>\n\u201cWe are delivering mental health support where and when it is needed most and we will be there for as long as it takes to help people recover from the devastating bushfires,\u201d Mrs Taylor said.<br \/>\n\u201cWe want to ensure people in bushfire-affected communities can access appropriate and timely services to help with their mental health and wellbeing.<br \/>\n\u201cI urge anyone suffering as a result of the bushfires to reach out to the clinicians on the ground for support.\u201d<br \/>\nThe clinicians are easily identified by their NSW Health fluorescent vests and add to the Disaster Welfare Services already being provided at Evacuation Centres throughout bushfire-affected areas.<br \/>\nThe clinicians will help build community resilience and focus on vulnerable people.<br \/>\nThe Disaster Welfare Assistance Line is also staffed with counselling support\u00a0and can\u00a0be accessed by phone on\u00a0<b>1800 018 444<\/b>.<br \/>\nMore help can be accessed via:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>NSW\u00a0Mental\u00a0Health\u00a0Line\u00a0on\u00a01800\u00a0011 511<\/li>\n<li>Lifeline\u00a0on\u00a0131114<\/li>\n<li>Beyond Blue on 1300 224 636<\/li>\n<li>Mensline on 1300 789 978 or<\/li>\n<li>Kids Helpline on 1800 551 800<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The NSW Government is deploying teams of mental health clinicians to support people suffering from the bushfire crisis to help rebuild their lives. Minister for Mental Health Bronnie Taylor said specialist Bushfire Recovery Clinicians will work right across NSW to support individuals, carers and families. \u201cWe are delivering mental health support where and when it &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2020\/01\/11\/mental-health-support-during-bushfire-crisis\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;MENTAL HEALTH SUPPORT DURING BUSHFIRE CRISIS&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nswnews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4819","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4819"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4819\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}