HALT launches new national initiative

By
Lisa Dennis
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R U Okay? Feeling Sh*t? This new HALT initiative aims to help tradies across the country. HALT founder Jeremy Forbes and HALT North West region project worker Tom Kenneally are pictured with the new stickers at Castlemaine Hire Service earlier this week.
R U Okay? Feeling Sh*t? This new HALT initiative aims to help tradies across the country. HALT founder Jeremy Forbes and HALT North West region project worker Tom Kenneally are pictured with the new stickers at Castlemaine Hire Service earlier this week.

To coincide with R U OK? Day (September 9) and National Suicide Prevent Day (September 10) grassroots Castlemaine health promotion organisation Hope Assistance Local Tradies (HALT) is working to reduce suicides in the trades and construction workforce with the launch of a new initiative.
The campaign aims to get the message of help-seeking out to tradies on building sites nationwide.
It centres on a sticker for the back of toilet doors on work sites, using QR code technology that links directly to a curated list of mental health resources and support services. See the Mail for the full story…

Lisa Dennis
Lisa Dennis
Editor of the Castlemaine Mail newspaper and senior journalist on our sister paper the Midland Express. Over the last 24 years Lisa been proudly reporting news in the Mount Alexander and Macedon Ranges communities.