{"id":22812,"date":"2022-10-10T13:45:36","date_gmt":"2022-10-10T05:45:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/friends\/?p=22812"},"modified":"2025-05-01T13:55:13","modified_gmt":"2025-05-01T05:55:13","slug":"world-mental-health-day-qa-with-curtin-graduate-leighton-bradfield","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/friends\/world-mental-health-day-qa-with-curtin-graduate-leighton-bradfield\/","title":{"rendered":"World Mental Health Day: Q&amp;A with Curtin graduate Leighton Bradfield"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-sm-font-size\"><strong>Written by Alumni &amp; Friends<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Could the online space be a power for good when it comes to improving youth mental health?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/feed\/hashtag\/?keywords=worldmentalhealthday&amp;highlightedUpdateUrns=urn%3Ali%3Aactivity%3A6985146919207526400\">#WorldMentalHealthDay<\/a>, Curtin graduate and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/company\/20talkk\/\">20Talk<\/a> co-founder <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/ACoAAB678FkBfqqPRpZg-j7ioaHMBCImolJUq7w\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/leighton-bradfield-a49826124\/\">Leighton Bradfield<\/a> shares why social media may be more of a help than a hindrance when it comes to youth mental health.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Launching in 2018, Leighton launched <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/company\/20talkk\/\">20Talk<\/a> following the passing of two close friends to suicide within two months and is now on a mission to change the stigma around youth mental health.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Watch below to find out more <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/posts\/curtin-university-alumni_world-mental-health-day-qa-with-curtin-activity-6985146919207526400-z7Op?utm_source=share&amp;utm_medium=member_desktop\">here<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-sm-font-size\"><strong>Written by Alumni &amp; Friends<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Curtin graduate and 20Talk co-founder Leighton Bradfield challenges the negative perception of social media and its impact on youth mental health. In honor of World Mental Health Day, Leighton shares his vision for using online platforms to promote positive mental health and break the stigma surrounding mental illness.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":162,"featured_media":22813,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_oasis_is_in_workflow":0,"_oasis_original":0,"_oasis_task_priority":"","wds_primary_category":710,"footnotes":""},"categories":[710],"tags":[724,709],"class_list":["post-22812","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-life-after-curtin","tag-life-advice","tag-linkedin"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/friends\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22812","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/friends\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/friends\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/friends\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/162"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/friends\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22812"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/friends\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22812\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24923,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/friends\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22812\/revisions\/24923"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/friends\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22813"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/friends\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/friends\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/friends\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}