--- title: Health and wellbeing date: 2026-06-10T01:20:00+10:00 author: Portable canonical_url: "https://portable.com.au/work/impact-areas/health-and-wellbeing" section: Impact areas --- ![Andrew talking to the crowd](https://portable.com.au/assets/_transforms/images/2343/aQAvwrpReVYa3u6v_LS-54_385ba22d576e4c13723fa16e6bd5fb2d.jpg) Portable has worked with leading mental health and health providers across Australia for nearly a decade, researching, designing, and building services that meet people at difficult moments. We take a trauma-responsive approach to every engagement in this space, whether that's supporting young Victorians' mental wellbeing, connecting people to headspace's services, or helping Cancer Council design a national navigation service for every person affected by cancer. ![Designing a national cancer navigation service for consistent, equitable support.](https://portable.com.au/assets/_transforms/images/11268/aSkS-XNYClf9nj15_CancerCouncilinteriorimage1_9f897b1382d56b7dbd210a479f72ecc7.jpg) ### Designing a national cancer navigation service for consistent, equitable support. Grounded in almost 200 staff engagements and 28 community interviews, including with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander, CALD and LGBTQIA+ communities, this service design brings nine independent state and territory Cancer Council organisations together under one evidence-based model. For people affected by cancer, that means consistent, culturally safe support regardless of which state or territory they live in. [Read more about the project](https://portable.com.au/work/case-studies/national-cancer-navigation-service-design) ### A new hope for the mental health and wellbeing of young Victorians. For children and young people who've experienced self-harm or suicidal thoughts, and the families supporting them, we embedded lived-experience peer support directly into the new Child and Youth HOPE model of care at four participating health services. 24 carers, 20 young people, 7 children and dozens of clinicians helped design it rather than have it designed around them. That means a service shaped by people who've actually been through it. The work was awarded Gold at the 2022 Melbourne Design Awards. [Read more about the project](https://portable.com.au/work/case-studies/cy-hope) ![CY-Hope has since been awarded Gold in the 2022 Melbourne Design Awards and Silver in the 2023 Australian Design Awards.](https://portable.com.au/assets/_transforms/images/9043/705d3fd4-b865-45e3-b558-6abfc5e9ba8a_CY-HOPE-Left-Aligned_9f897b1382d56b7dbd210a479f72ecc7.jpg) ![Unifying headspace's digital presence.](https://portable.com.au/assets/_transforms/images/caseStudy/unifying-headspace-digital-presence/36692/Xln8qxQAACUADlr_2026-06-10-011052_ghgl_9f897b1382d56b7dbd210a479f72ecc7.jpg) ### Unifying headspace's digital presence. We gave young Australians seeking mental health support, a group whose reported psychological distress has more than tripled since 2007, a single, consistent way to find and use headspace's services online, rather than a fragmented digital presence. For headspace, unifying that presence laid the foundation for later work like Spaces, extending their reach beyond direct clinician contact. [Read more about the project](https://portable.com.au/work/case-studies/unifying-headspace-digital-presence) ## More of our work in health and wellbeing [All health and wellbeing case studies](https://portable.staging.ptest.tv/work/case-studies?impactAreas=health-and-wellbeing) - ![](https://portable.com.au/assets/_transforms/images/76761/Superfriend_638b64f2391dff6e364e5709b4734889.jpg)### [Building the future of workplace mental health intelligence](https://portable.com.au/work/case-studies/superfriend-mental-health-survey) - ![](https://portable.com.au/assets/_transforms/images/article/adapting-prms-to-enhance-access-to-justice/636/aMi6qWGNHVfTPQfs_638b64f2391dff6e364e5709b4734889.jpg)### [Adapting patient-reported measures to the legal sector](https://portable.com.au/articles/adapting-prms-to-enhance-access-to-justice) - ![](https://portable.com.au/assets/_transforms/images/report/mental-health-and-ai-insights/30363/Z00gmZbqstJ977oc_638b64f2391dff6e364e5709b4734889.png)### [Portable Report: Bridging gaps between mental health and AI](https://portable.com.au/reports/mental-health-and-ai-insights) - ![Redesigning care services with relationship-centred practice](https://portable.com.au/assets/_transforms/images/event/relational-care-webinar/22556/Zswar0aF0TcGJYe6_638b64f2391dff6e364e5709b4734889.jpg)### [Redesigning care services with relationship-centred practice](https://portable.com.au/events/relational-care-webinar) - ![](https://portable.com.au/assets/_transforms/images/caseStudy/re-engaging-alumni-to-drive-enrollments/36088/aiC8jQeQX7-eWsQW_638b64f2391dff6e364e5709b4734889.png)### [Re-engaging alumni to drive enrollments](https://portable.com.au/work/case-studies/re-engaging-alumni-to-drive-enrollments) - ![](https://portable.com.au/assets/_transforms/images/article/what-does-real-change-in-mental-health-mean/4197/Y1H7qhEAACsAIQi0_638b64f2391dff6e364e5709b4734889.jpg)### [What does real change in mental health mean?](https://portable.com.au/articles/what-does-real-change-in-mental-health-mean) - ![Portable Report: Health Equity; it's possible, it's necessary and it's time.](https://portable.com.au/assets/_transforms/images/report/health-equity-report/30354/Ztjv0bzzk9ZrXAVN_638b64f2391dff6e364e5709b4734889.png)### [Portable Report: Health Equity; it's possible, it's necessary and it's time.](https://portable.com.au/reports/health-equity-report) - ![Visib-ill-ity](https://portable.com.au/assets/_transforms/images/event/visib-ill-ity/22618/ZdgzWzpgV5jBjCQJ_638b64f2391dff6e364e5709b4734889.png)### [Visib-ill-ity: Progress and hope for women living with chronic illness](https://portable.com.au/events/visib-ill-ity) ### Create impact with us Collaboration is at the heart of all that Portable does. 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