Deadline: 29-Jul-22
Orygen Global in partnership with the Australian Government are excited to announce the launch of the ASEAN-Australia Youth Mental Health Fellowships.
The ASEAN-Australia Youth Mental Health Fellowships program is a seven-month virtual program for young people aged 18–30 from Australia and ASEAN member states who are passionate about youth mental health and want to create change in the mental health landscape of their country.
The fellowships program has been established to build the capacity, skills and voices of young people to create positive change in mental health awareness, policy and systems reform. It will provide fellows with a range of skills and support them to further develop their youth mental health project plan, designed around the needs of their communities.
The ASEAN fellows will be fully funded by the Australian Government and will be joined by Australian participants to support shared learning.
Modes of Learning
The fellowships will consist of five modes of learning:
- Education modules are a core part of the fellowships and will be the platform to develop knowledge and insights for mental health advocacy. Each of the five education modules will be composed of lectures, panel discussions and/or practical workshops. These will be mostly live. Each module aims to build on each other and will include a strong emphasis on fellow interaction.
- Education modules will cover the following topics:
- Defining mental ill-health, advocacy and personal development;
- Safety in advocacy and sharing your personal mental health story;
- Preparing for advocacy and developing a proposal for change;
- Doing advocacy part 1: public speaking, policy and fundraising;
- Doing advocacy part: media and responding to risk; and
- After advocacy , creating sustainable change.
- Expert mentoring is used as a space for fellows to develop skills and expertise tailored to each fellow’s learning needs. These skills and expertise will help to equip the fellow with the resources and networks to enact their proposal for change. Mentoring will involve the fellow and mentor meeting monthly and is designed to be dynamic, personal and informal.
- Peer mentoring is an invaluable opportunity for the fellows to provide each other with strategic and emotional support. Fellows from diverse backgrounds and geographical areas will be paired together and will meet monthly.
- Contact with leaders in global youth mental health: beyond the impact of implementing their own proposal for change, fellows will be able to network with leaders in youth mental health from around the world.
- Contribution: one component of the fellowships program is experiential learning, which allows fellows to engage with the established work of Orygen.
Duration: The fellowship is a seven-month program. Fellows will need to be able to commit approximately 8-10 hours of time each month to fellowship activities. This will vary from month to month but will include a combination of educational modules and individual or group-based work.
Eligibility Criteria
They would love to hear from you if you:
- Are aged 18–30?
- have a clearly defined challenge related to youth mental health which you wish to address; have a viable advocacy plan for addressing this challenge; and
- Are from ASEAN member states or Australia.
- Orygen Global recognizes that young people have varying identities of culture, race, location, ability and sexuality, and they are committed to working in partnership with people of all backgrounds and identities to ensure that Orygen Global is responsive and inclusive.
For more information, visit https://orygen.org.au/About/Orygen-Global/Fellowship/Fellowships