The Royal Commission into Victoria's Mental Health System delivered its final report on 3 February 2021 and it was tabled in Parliament by the Victorian Government on 2 March 2021. The work of the Commission has now concluded.
Roadmap for Reform: strong families, safe children
Resource | 2021
Roadmap for Reform: Strong Families, Safe Children is our strategy to transform the child and family system. It focuses on earlier intervention and prevention to reduce vulnerability and equip children and young people to reach their full potential.
Writing Themselves In 4: Victoria summary report
Resource | 2021
This report describes Victoria-specific findings from Writing Themselves In 4: a national survey of health and wellbeing among LGBTQA+ young people in Australia.
MARAM practice guides and resources
Resource | 2021
The Family Violence Multi-Agency Risk Assessment and Management Framework ensures services are effectively identifying, assessing and managing family violence risk.
MARAM practice guides: Guidance for professionals working with adults using family violence
Resource | 2021
The MARAM Framework provides a systemwide approach to risk assessment and risk management, providing guidance for professionals working with child or adult victim survivors, and adults using family violence.
National Children’s Mental Health and Wellbeing Strategy
Resource | 2021
The Strategy outlines the requirements for an effective system of care for children, seeking to create a new, shared understanding of the roles of families, communities, services, and educators in promoting and supporting child mental health and wellbeing.
Specialist Family Violence Advisor guidelines and reporting template
Resource | 2021
Guidelines to support consistent state-wide delivery of the program, describe responsibilities, clarify activities and confirm reporting requirements, while providing guidance for Specialist Family Violence Advisor service delivery across Victoria within the mental health and alcohol and drug sector
Mental health workforce strategy and capability framework
Resource | 2021
Victoria’s mental health and wellbeing workforce strategy 2021–2024 sets out a coordinated and strategic approach to deliver the diverse, skilled and multidisciplinary workforce required for Victoria’s reformed mental health and wellbeing system.
Victorian Mental Health and Wellbeing Workforce Capability Framework
Resource | 2021
The Victorian Mental Health and Wellbeing Workforce Capability Framework sets out the skills, knowledge and ways of working that the workforce will require in the new integrated and responsive mental health and wellbeing system. It will be revised to keep pace with emerging and evolving needs.
Self-advocacy for the NDIS (mental health)
Resource | 2021
This workbook was developed following a co-design process, in partnership with Victorian Mental Illness Awareness Council (VMIAC) and Tandem, with the purpose of providing self-advocacy information, identifying rights and strategies that support people to speak up for themselves.