– Zac (16)
Poor mental health can be a heavy load to burden, particularly for those who live with it every single day. Lift the Load stops poor mental health in its tracks.
Throughout Mental Health Month in October, you can join the Lift the Load challenge as we carry 10km over 50km. Funds raised go towards giving boys and young men their own mental health toolkit to help them through the messiness of life, helping to reduce rates of suicide and poor mental health.
Applications for the 2024 Traineeship program are now closed.
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As Zac said: ‘When you can identify toxic people or situations in your life you rid yourself of them. You remove them. But when it’s your mental health is the issue, you can’t run. You can’t get rid of it. The only way to help yourself is to get the appropriate help from those around you can confide in.’
Zac’s school got him onto a Top Blokes mentoring program – where he spent 16 weeks listening and interacting with our youth workers, tackling head-on the issues he was struggling with: risk-taking behaviours, peer pressure and mental health. He learned to connect to others again, to be able to have a conversation and ask for help.
Zac is a success story, but we need to be there over the long-term for more boys like Zac. Beyond everything we want to ensure we are around for the long-term, so that we are always there for the next generation of young men.
Please, can you put up your hand and become a founding donor of our Sustainability Fund. Tomorrow’s generation of boys like Zac are relying on you.
Either donate through the donation form on this page, or for a confidential discussion please contact Melissa Abu-Gazaleh at info@topblokes.org.au or phone 1300 450 850.
Major donations will be recognised officially as a Top Blokes Sustainability Fund Donor. Alternatively, gifts in wills can also be directed towards the Sustainability Fund.
