Jules Haddock has worked in the community sector for over 30 years and is a Principal Master Mental Health Instructor. In 2015, she established The Anxious Bird, after supporting her son with Autism through his school years. She provides specific education to teachers, parents, businesses, and the general community in supporting children. In 2019, she supported a young illustrator with intellectual disability and Schizophrenia to create her first children’s book, Chirpee The Anxious Bird. With a concept of running a festival for National Mental Health Week, she formed Art of the Minds, a non-profit voluntary charity that umbrella 33 events in the Surf Coast Shire in 2020.

Author artist, and a person with lived experience of mental illness, she makes it real. She approaches life with gaiety and enjoys a humorous outlook in teaching us the basic fact of mental illness- How can you recover if you don’t know what you are recovering form?

Jules Haddock has worked in the community sector for over 30 years and is a Principal Master Mental Health Instructor. In 2015, she established The Anxious Bird, after supporting her son with Autism through his school years. She provides specific education to teachers, parents, businesses, and the general community in supporting children. In 2019, she supported a young illustrator with intellectual disability and Schizophrenia to create her first children’s book, Chirpee The Anxious Bird. With a concept of running a festival for National Mental Health Week, she formed Art of the Minds, a non-profit voluntary charity that umbrella 33 events in the Surf Coast Shire in 2020. Author artist, and a person with lived experience of mental illness, she makes it real. She approaches life with gaiety and enjoys a humorous outlook in teaching us the basic fact of mental illness- How can you recover if you don’t know what you are recovering form?

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Increasing community acceptance of Anxiety Disorders and other mental illnesses, with Jules Haddock

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