🛠️ Tools & Resources for Mental Health Support
For Shearers, Farmers, Pressers, Woolhandlers & Contractors:
We all hit rough patches. Some days it feels like you're dragging your ass through the yards or slogging through the day on empty. This page is here for those days. Whether you’re looking out for your own mental health or checking in on a mate — this is your one-stop hub for real tools, hotlines, and online support.
🚨 Crisis & Urgent Help (24/7)
If it's all too much and you need help right now:
📞 1737 – Need to Talk?
Call or text 1737 any time for free support from a trained counsellor.
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📞 Lifeline Aotearoa
0800 543 354
or Text 4357
www.lifeline.org.nz
📞 Suicide Crisis Helpline
A free, nationwide service available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
0508 828 865
Learn More
📞 Emergencies
If someone is in immediate danger,
call 111
🧰 Online Tools & Apps You Can Use Today
NO SHIT. Just real stuff you can use on your phone or computer.
🧰 Just a Thought
Free online CBT-based courses for anxiety, stress, and depression.
www.justathought.co.nz
🧰 Groov
Journals, daily check-ins, breathing tools — top mental fitness app.
www.groovnow.com
🧰 Headstrong
Headstrong is a free, science-backed mental health app for teenagers
Try Headstrong
🧰 The Lowdown
Mental health support especially for younger Kiwis.
Text 5626 or visit www.thelowdown.co.nz
🤝 Supporting Your Mates
Worried about someone but not sure how to say something? Start here:
🤝 Farmstrong-
Looking Out For Mates
How to check in and look out for your mates
farmstrong.co.nz/wellbeing-topics/looking-out-for-mates
🤝 All Sorts –
Help Someone Else
Tips on starting the yarn, and what to do next.
allsorts.org.nz/help-someone-else
🤝 Mental Health Foundation – Worried About Someone?
A good place to start if someone you know has worrying signs
🚜 Rural & Shearing Crew Support
These ones understand the pressure of farming and wool shed life:
🚜 Rural Support Trust
Free and confidential help for all rural folk.
🚜 The Sharing Shed Toolbox (coming soon)
Posters, conversation starters, and more — designed for quarters, vans, and smoko rooms.
📲 FREE Apps Worth Downloading
Get these on your phone — you never know when they’ll come in handy:
Keep this page saved. Share it with your crew. Stick it on the shed wall if you have to.
Mental health matters — and looking out for each other is what makes us strong.
This is your shed. Use it.
