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BPD Awareness Week
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BPD Bandannas
From the Australian BPD Foundation … BPD Bandannas!
They’ll make great christmas gifts for your human and fur family
SA activities for BPD Awareness Week 2019
In October, instead of our regular meeting, lets catch up at these BPD Awareness Week activities, between 1st and 9th October ………
BPD Awareness Week 2019 – Opening – Tuesday 1st October 5.30pm
October 1st to 7th 2019 is BPD Awareness Week
Don’t miss the Opening:
Keynote speaker is Professor Anthony Bateman, a world expert on Mentalization and, of course, an expert in BPD!
Tuesday 1st October, 5:30pm
Petition for more funded visits for complex mental health conditions
The Australian BPD Foundation have a petition to increase Medicare-funded visits for BPD and other complex mental health conditions.
You can support them by signing the petition online.
BPD Awareness Week 2019
BPD Awareness Week runs from October 1st to 7th 2019.
This year’s theme for BPD Awareness Week is Best Practice Deserved.
Webinar: BPD and Families, what’s the connection – Part 2 – Recording
Part 2 of the NEA's webinar about the Family Connections® course and how it can help. This was broadcast on-line on 5 December 2018. Here is a recording of the webinar The panel discussion featured Cassie Choo, person with lived experience of BPD, Carissa...
Listen to Voices of Lived Experience
This offering comes from the 2018 BPD Awareness Week campaign, from the Australian BPD Foundation collaborating with many other groups that support Australians with Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD).
Self Care Strategies
This offering comes from the 2018 BPD Awareness Week campaign, from the Australian BPD Foundation collaborating with many other groups that support Australians with Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD).
Busting Myths about BPD
This offering comes from the 2018 BPD Awareness Week campaign, from the Australian BPD Foundation collaborating with many other groups that support Australians with Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD).
The Beep
Are you curious ... what is BPD? Borderline Personality Disorder, or BPD (or The Beep when it is interfering with my plans) This offering comes from the 2018 BPD Awareness Week campaign, from the Australian BPD Foundation collaborating with many...
Webinar: BPD and Families, what’s the connection – Part 1 – Recording
For BPD Awareness Week, a webinar featuring our member Liz and her son Jake talking about the Family Connections® course and how it has helped them. Here is a recording of the Webinar BPD Affects The Whole Family When a loved one has...
Advocates call for improved services for BPD – InDaily News Story
InDaily News ran this story by Stephanie Richards on 5 October 2018: Advocates call for improved services at BPD Centre for Excellence Borderline personality disorder advocates have called on the State Government to fund a family support...
Opening Event – BPD Awareness Week – 3 October 2018
The Opening Event of BPD Awareness Week 2018 on Wednesday 3rd October 2018
Opened by SA Minister of Health Stephen Wade MLC and addressed by Tammy Franks, Greens MLC. Lived experience advocates Aaron and Tanya spoke about BPD and their paths to recovery.
Radio interviews for BPD Awareness Week 2018 – 5AA and ABC Radio – Recordings
Listen again, to recordings of two radio interviews with Sanctuary members in BPD Awareness Week 2018
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