It was with a heavy heart and sadness that we heard our friend, mate, beautiful human and ex HALT worker, Steve Power, died over Easter after a long battle with cancer. Steve worked with HALT for a couple of years and he was the rock upon which we all broke when we were expanding HALT. It wasn't just his knowledge of the mental health industry, but his commitment to change, to try something different, to work outside the circle, save lives and above all, be tolerant, caring, understanding and empathetic with us and the people we worked with.. He was a close friend and confidant to us all, and I remember sitting in the Castlemaine office when a mini earthquake hit and we just looked at each other..then we took a breath and burst into laughter! We'll miss his beautiful smile, laughter, his cycling stories, talking about his daughter Mags and partner Phoebe and the energy he bought to the HALT team and passion for the work Mate, thanks for everything you did for HALT, the community, and us, we've been extremely lucky to have known you. VALE Steve Power (fb)

Wow, an amazing $11,275 was raised to support HALT. We can't thank you enough Jason Lester for your amazing ride from Yeppoon to Yapeen. A huge thanks to Leonie and all the generous and wonderfully talented tattoo artists who made the flash day a success at Forest Creek Tattoo. A massive thanks to all those that got tattooed to help raise money. The money raised will go towards building a whole of community approach project to raise awareness, improve understanding and educate people around improving mental health and suicide prevention. We will also be delivering more HALT talks across the community and hopefully with this template we can expand this pilot program to help and assist other communities! Thank everyone! (fb)