The AES acknowledges that this may be a difficult time for many in our evaluation community and you may find yourself suffering Pandemic Fatigue. Pandemic fatigue is very real and very normal, and it is absolutely understandable many of us are experiencing it due to the continued challenges of COVID-19. Below are some resources that may assist you (in no particular order).
You can call any of the following services:
Coronavirus Mental Wellbeing Support Services: 1800 512 348
Lifeline: 13 11 14
Kids Helpline: 1800 551 800
Beyond Blue: 1300 22 4636
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headspace
- the National Youth Mental Health Foundation provides information for young people affected by stress related to COVID-19. To access go to
Sane Australia
has helpful blog posts including a recent one on . Go to for more.
MensLine Australia
offers resources for dealing with stress during COVID times, including and . These and others can be found here:
The Anxiety Recovery Centre Victoria
provide an OCD and Anxiety Helpline (1300 269 438 or 03 9830 0533), for people with anxiety disorders, their families, carers, and mental health care providers. The service is available Monday to Friday 10.00am - 8.30pm. ARCVic also offers free information sessions on learning how to cope with COVID and understanding how we can help ourselves and others. Go to for more information.
Open Arms
provides mental health and wellbeing support for current and ex-serving Australian Defence Force personnel and their families. They have two useful blogs: and .
Suicide Call Back Service
Suicide Call Back Service (1300 659 467) provides resources on and . These and others can be found at
National Mental Health Commission
The National Mental Health Commission has tips for managing pandemic fatigue.Access via
Head to Health
The Head to Health website provides information, tips and resources to support you and your loved ones鈥� mental health during these challenging times.
Lifeline
Lifeline has a webpage on how to manage your mental health and wellbeing during the Coronavirus COVID-19 outbreak:
also offers a Text Service (0477 13 11 14) available from midday to midnight. This is short-term support for people who are feeling overwhelmed or having difficulty coping. For more information:
Beyond Blue
Beyond Blue has a dedicated Coronavirus Mental Wellbeing Support Service:
After nearly two years facing challenges brought on by the pandemic, many people are finding it hard to express the new and often conflicting emotions they鈥檙e feeling. To help people identify and define how they鈥檙e feeling, Beyond Blue has created a new set of words that gives labels to these mixed emotions. One of these words is 鈥榃orryHope鈥�: a feeling you get when you keep switching between looking forward to the future and being worried by it.
If you don鈥檛 know how to feel right now, you鈥檙e not alone. COVID-19 has had an impact on everyone, so no matter what feelings or emotions you鈥檙e experiencing, there is support available 24/7. Visit the Coronavirus Mental Wellbeing Support Service at
Other new resources that may be of interest are available here: these include Managing social anxiety as we adapt to COVID-normal life and How to maintain your healthy lockdown habits in the 鈥榥ew normal鈥�.
Black Dog Institute
Black Dog Institute resources can be accessed at
ReachOut
ReachOut has an article on 10 ways to take care of yourself during coronavirus: Other relevant articles can be found:
Kids Helpline
Kids Helpline has a dedicated COVID website:
Emerging Minds
Emerging Minds has resources, including a toolkit, on Supporting children during the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic.
WellMob
WellMob has a list of resources to help Indigenous communities stay safe and well:
Government resources
The Department of Health provides information on how to protect Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and remote communities. .
Other government sites:
- VIC:
- NSW:
- QLD:
- SA:
- WA:
- NT:
- ACT:
- TAS:
- NZ:
Vic Government's COVID Checklists
If you are located in Victoria, the Victorian Government has compiled helpful checklists explaining what to do if you test positive to COVID-19 or if you've been told you are a contact. Details here:
Fingerprint for Success
Fingerprint for Success (f2s) recently wrote a guide with 9 mindfulness exercises to help you manage COVID stress:
HealthMatch
HealthMatch is driven by a mission to accelerate medical research allowing for faster and more efficient access to life-changing medication. Through technology that puts the metaphorical steering wheel back in the hands of the patient, their goal is to make the process of finding and accessing clinical trials as simple as possible for all. At the patient is always at the centre of everything they do.
HelathMatch has recently written a blog on How the COVID-19 Pandemic is affecting our Mental Health too:
Blogs on resting: