ADVOCACY
Maria has been engaged as a Mental Health Advocate, facilitated groups for individuals with mental health challenges for them to advocate for themselves and participated in various focus groups. With her PowerPoint presentations, she provides information on the mental health system.
This includes how the well-being of others can impact on peoples lives for the better, including setting priorities.
As mental health and art advocate Maria has taken on a specific role to provide advice on behalf of individuals with mental health chalanges.She combiines wellbeing and mental health within her art practice .
LEADERSHIP
Maria believes in practical steps that result in real change such as advocacy and peer to peer support. This leads to quality of life for others.
Maria has learnt how important it is to have a voice, and advocate for herself and otthers. She has practiced this by setting up her own mental help support group from the ground up and provided peer to peer support opportunities,and working as a consumer consultant.