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HEALTH
Resilience skills for
rural communities
STORY BY KERYN LAPIDGE
S
tephanie Schmidt is passionate
about improving mental health
support for farmers and rural
communities. The recipient of
the 2020 South Australian Agrifutures
Rural Women’s Award, Stephanie has
developed a resilience program made
specifically for farming couples, families
and individuals, with the aim of growing
psychological flexibility throughout the
rural sector.
Having grown up in Prospect, Stephanie
started a double degree in Arts and
International Studies at the University
of Adelaide straight after high school. It
was while working part-time at Hindley
Street bar the Woolshed on Hindley,
that a chance meeting with her now
husband, Simon, put Stephanie on the
path towards becoming a farmer and
clinical psychologist.
ions for wellbeing
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