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    <name>Answers to Questions</name>
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      <name>Drought, Mental Health</name>
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          <heading>Drought, Mental Health</heading>
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        <name>In reply to Ms PRATT</name>
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        <electorate id="">Frome</electorate>
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          <question date="2025-11-26T00:00:00+10:30">
            <name>Drought, Mental Health</name>
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            <timeStamp time="2025-11-27T00:00:00+10:30" />In reply to <by role="member" id="6897" referenceid="281302ba05f944788bbdc4aa3396e0c9" uid="a1b68bc5689d49aab5a4a16f661219d3">Ms PRATT (Frome)  </by>(18 June 2025).  </inserted>
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      <talker role="member" id="4841" referenceid="b5dd6c590e5b44e38a00cc2313e6e5cc" uid="6aae9afa407942dabdadeb499bca7da6" kind="answer">
        <name>The Hon. C.J. PICTON</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
        <electorate id="">Kaurna</electorate>
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            <name>Minister for Health and Wellbeing</name>
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          <question date="2025-11-26T00:00:00+10:30">
            <name>Drought, Mental Health</name>
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            <by role="member" id="4841" referenceid="b5dd6c590e5b44e38a00cc2313e6e5cc" uid="6aae9afa407942dabdadeb499bca7da6">The Hon. C.J. PICTON (Kaurna—Minister for Health and Wellbeing):</by>  I have been advised:</inserted>
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          <inserted>A number of measures are in place to boost existing mental health and resilience in drought-affected areas. These include expanding community resiliency programs, individual and group peer support as well as the provision of additional funding to expand on the ground mental health support. </inserted>
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          <inserted>Information for drought affected communities about mental health support options has been underpinned by a social media campaign which began at the start of May 2025 and has had 1,075,469 views since inception. In addition, a targeted communications campaign commenced on 3 November 2025, following a PIRSA campaign, to ensure drought-affected community members know about the mental health support available leading into summer.</inserted>
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