Coach shows resilience

FORMER Australian Football League player Paul Hudson has demonstrated incredible resilience throughout his football career.
He last week shared his thoughts on resilience through sport at Kooweerup Secondary College as part of Mental Health Week activities.
Mr Hudson, who this year coached the Gippsland Power football team to a TAC Cup flag, presented at the Bounce Back for Life seminar with Southern Health Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Unit’s Dr Paul Lee.
Both speakers agreed on the importance of resilience in coping with everyday issues, and emphasised the importance of goal setting, |effective communication and seeking support if help is needed.
“It is incredibly important to have a network of support people in our lives to draw on if we are facing difficulties,” Dr Lee said.
“This is the basis of being resilient and bouncing back, be it in a football career or whatever direction we choose in life.”
The seminar was held as part of a regular health promotion initiative in the district called the Community Peer Support Program, auspiced by CardiniaCasey Community Health Service, Kooweerup Regional Health Service and the Kooweerup Secondary College Parents’ Association.
The support program has five local volunteers, who have been trained and are supported by health professionals to assist other members of the community to cope with difficult times, everything from family breakdown, death or to just feeling down.
For information on how to contact the volunteers, call Marlene on 5941 0500 or Judie on 5997 9679.