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Busselton volunteers open 'safe place' to give those struggling with mental health alternative to hospital

Volunteers will use the space to create a "safe place" for people to come to on Friday nights. (ABC South West: Sam Bold)

Volunteers have opened a "safe place" in a West Australian tourist town with the aim of taking on suicide prevention and the lack of non-hospital mental health services in the region. 

A small, cosy room dubbed "the cocoon" now sits inside the remains of an old farmer's market in Busselton, two-and-a-half hours south of Perth. 

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