SANE
Gayle McNaught currently serves as the Manager of Public Affairs & Advocacy at SANE since August 2022. McNaught has also been a National Consumer Advisory Committee Member at Arthritis Australia since July 2021 and previously held the position of Board Member at Chronic Pain Australia from September 2020 to June 2023. Prior experience includes National Communications and Marketing Manager at The Fathering Project, Director at Synapse Communications, and Associate Partner at SenateSHJ. McNaught led Public Affairs at the Black Dog Institute and served as National PR and Media Manager for the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation. Additionally, McNaught was a member of the Commonwealth Gene Technology Ethics and Community Consultative Committee. Notable educational credentials include a Bachelor of Science (Hons) in Biology from the University of Sydney, a Graduate Diploma in Science Communication from The Australian National University, and a Graduate Diploma in Secondary Education from Macquarie University.
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SANE
SANE supports all people in Australia affected by complex mental health issues. We exist to break barriers, raise expectations, and champion the voices of people with lived experience and their families and communities; to increase peer-led, connected support and drive systemic change. SANE is unique in our focus of supporting people who experience complex mental health issues, trauma, and supporting the mental health of those who are autistic and people with intellectual disability. We provide a range of free digital and telehealth support services including peer support, counselling, community forums, peer-led groups, art and social groups and information resources. SANE is widely respected as a lived experience-led organisation and advocate with a long history of collaboration across and beyond the mental health and suicide prevention sectors. Guided by our vision, goals, values and behaviours, we help create brighter futures for all people and families facing the challenges of complex mental health issues by working towards ending mental health inequity and social and economic exclusion. To learn more, visit sane.org.