Guest Speaker– Ashley Argoon, a journalist with the Border Mail, has been the driving force behind  the “Head Space for Albury-Wodonga” campaign being conducted by the Border Mail with the purpose of securing government finance for a centre in Albury-Wodonga. At last week’s meeting Ashley gave us an insight into the urgent need for  the centre and its importance in supporting the border mental health services. She spoke of the particular need for suicide prevention by bringing this subject into the open through publicity and discussion. Part of this campaign involved collecting  ‘message Butterflies’ from the border community to form the basis of a presentation to Canberra … 5000 ‘butterflies’ and petition signatures were collected and presented to the Minister of Mental Health in Canberra … each with a personal message of hope. It is understood that funding for the head Space centre will be announced soon.