Presley gave them a small smile and nodded. "Thank you. We appreciate any support, of course. But I don't want you to feel it's an obligation for Justin working with us. We wouldn't turn any donations away, however. The more we have, the more extensive support we can give our beneficiaries. Some just need a little help or encouragement, but others need much more to get them to a point they can start to achieve what they've hoped for. It's not easy, it's emotionally taxing, and a lot of hard work. Because of that, we don't like to measure our effectiveness on whether our beneficiaries have success or not. That's not what any of this is about. It's about trying to see if they can cope with it. Some thrive, others aren't ready and they might come back to us down the track to try again. Others may begin the process, but it exposes a need for support in different ways, and we have social workers who step in and liaise for them. Case work is another distinct part of our organisation. Basically, we respect that every young person with mental illness is different, and they're all fighting very unique battles to them. It's not like a cancer foundation where most funds go into research or developing facilities. We do a lot of outreach work, because the nature of the illnesses, they don't often know how to ask for help, know what helps is there, feel they're deserving of it, or are capable of having any sort of success. That's mostly where I would like Justin to be involved in the campaign. Reaching out to people like him before he got a leg up to success. That doesn't mean we will be sending him out there trying to counsel other kids with mental health, because we don't, at all, want it to be detrimental to his own health either. What I would like to look at is some baseline interviews with him we can include in our promotional literature, and just some very brief talks addressing our events so our beneficiaries can identify with him, and our financial backers can see how far a kid can come with support networks in place."

"And yes, of course, anything Justin is present at, there would be no questions that you would both be invited along. As I said, I'm not here to make his job or life harder. It is merely bringing him in onto our team as an Ambassador, because let's be real, his Tony's speech has gone viral and about the third return on a Google search of him is 'Justin Campbell bipolar' because people want to know more. They see this highly successful and talented young man, and can't quite believe he's a bipolar survivor. We don't want to objectify that, we just want him to be a figurehead of hope. Any even Justin books, if he needs to pull out, that's understandable. We recognise and understand completely that he has other more important commitments that come first and that his hours of work are restricted because of his age to begin with. Some appearances or events a couple of times a month, at the very most. That, and the pending fundraiser in Sydney next week," he added because he wasn't sure how much of any of this Justin was aware of. "It's soon, I understand, but your dad indicated, Justin, that it wasn't outwith the realms of possibility for it to be your first even with us, especially with you being half Australian."