TEENA Conway has spent countless hours walking headspace petitions around the Border, asking people to join the call.
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She’s collected almost 1000 signatures for a youth mental health centre.
Her motivation: “I don’t want anyone else to feel the pain our family has felt,” she said.
Ms Conway lost her 15-year-old son Zac Birch to suicide in 2010.
“We need to push the government to realise we want a headspace and we need it, we need to make them listen,” she said.
The Border Mail will take the petitions and almost 5000 butterflies to Canberra later this month.
Ms Conway urged people to add their signature to the petitions, which can be found in many Border businesses as well as The Border Mail offices in Albury and Wodonga.
“People sit back and think, ‘I don’t need to sign, someone else will do it’,” Ms Conway said.
“But if you don’t sign, you won’t be heard,” she said.
You can download butterflies or petitions at the Albury-Wodonga Needs headspace Facebook page.
