AMA Awards Youth Health Award
An innovative CD project developed by a group of Brisbane kids to help children and young people cope with living with a parent with mental illness has been judged winner of the AMA Youth Health Award for 2005.
The Youth Health Award is presented to an individual or group who has made an outstanding contribution to any aspect of youth health in Australia, and that is just what the "Koping Kids Kall Out" CD Project has done.
Funded by the Royal Children's Hospital Foundation in Brisbane, the "Koping Kids Kall Out" CD was part of the KOPING adolescent program.
This peer support program was designed to help children and young people cope with the challenges, emotions and experiences of living with a parent diagnosed with a mental illness.
The CD development project, run by Brisbane's Child & Youth Mental Health Service, provided a wonderful opportunity for these teenagers to capture their experiences in a creative way through music.
A group of seven young people from Brisbane wrote and recorded three original songs titled 'You are You', 'Friends Stick by You', and 'Feel Alive'.
Two of the group, Jennifer and John Lamont, accepted the Award.
27 May 2005
CONTACT: John Flannery (02) 6270 5477 / (0419) 494 761
Judith Tokley (02) 6270 5471 / (0408) 824 306
Shirley Anastasi (0411) 654 076