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After a celebrated 14 year AFL playing career, Wayne Schwass went on to establish himself as a respected sports media broadcaster – a position he held over a 17 year period until 2019, where his speaking skills were honed.
As a result of his own experiences with mental health challenges throughout much of his AFL career, Wayne has become a wellbeing champion – he understands the toll that not talking about these important issues takes. In 2006, he started the Sunrise Foundation, a not-for-profit that delivered preventative education programs to more than 5000 secondary school students.
Wayne has taken on several important roles in the community including being the lead witness in the 2019 Royal Commission into the Victorian Mental Health System, serving as a panel member for the review of the Victorian Mental Health Act 1986 as well as being a leading voice on mental health and emotional wellbeing.
The Sunrise Foundation confirmed that creating awareness and proactively doing something about the mental health and the ongoing suicide crisis Australia faces, is indeed Wayne’s passion.
The second iteration of Wayne’s social enterprise was founded in 2017: PukaUp. Through PukaUp, Wayne continues his work of normalising the conversation around mental health, and giving people the opportunity to take control of their own wellbeing, before reaching crisis point.
