Small Steps, Big Conversations: : Currumbin Clinic Looks Back on Move For More

October was a month to remember at Currumbin Clinic. Alongside our colleagues across Aurora Healthcare, our team took part in Move For More, a Mental Health Month campaign that asked one thing of all of us: get moving, and keep the conversation about mental health going.

With the month now behind us, we want to share a heartfelt thank you, celebrate what we achieved together and share some exciting news.

What Move For More was all about

Move For More brought staff, families and community members together to raise awareness and funds for Suicide Prevention Australia. At its centre was a message our team shares with the people we care for every day: it's OK to ask for help.

There was no finish line and no right way to take part. Some of our team walked before or after shifts, others got colleagues together for a lunchtime loop, and many brought partners, kids and friends along on weekends. Every step was a small way of saying that mental health matters.

Our team, our community

As a specialist mental health hospital, Currumbin Clinic sees every day how much difference connection, support and early help can make. That's what made it so meaningful to watch our team step out together in their teal Aurora shirts for a cause so closely tied to the care they provide.

It was also lovely to walk alongside our Aurora Gold Coast colleagues from Robina Private Hospital. Coming together across both sites was a great reminder that, wherever we work, we're one team with a shared commitment to mental health in our community.

Network-wide, hundreds of people got involved [update with final participant number and total raised], and we're proud Currumbin Clinic played its part.

A big thank you

To every member of our team, and to the families, friends and community members who walked, donated or simply shared the campaign: thank you. You helped turn a month of movement into a month of genuine conversations, and that's what Move For More was all about.

What's next: a partnership with Suicide Prevention Australia

We're proud to share that Aurora Healthcare is now partnering with Suicide Prevention Australia, the national peak body for suicide prevention.

For Currumbin Clinic, this partnership builds on the momentum of Move For More and strengthens our commitment to reducing stigma, encouraging people to seek support early and contributing to the national effort to prevent suicide. We look forward to sharing more about the partnership in the months ahead.

Keep checking in

Mental Health Month may be over, but looking after our mental health is an everyday thing. A walk with a friend, a message to someone you haven't heard from in a while, or a chat with your GP can all be a powerful first step.

If Move For More got you thinking about how you or someone close to you is going, we encourage you to keep that conversation going.