This guide is designed as a resource for peer supporters who want to learn how to integrate trauma-informed principles into their relationships with the women they support or into the peer support groups of which they are members.
Clinical Practice Guideline for the management of Borderline Personality Disorder
Resource | 2012
Developed by a multi-disciplinary committee of clinical, consumer and carer representatives with BPD expertise, the guideline discusses a range of treatment options, including recommendations covering diagnosis, management, treatment and information for supporting carers and families.
Speaking Our Minds: A guide to how we use our stories
Resource | 2011
A free resource, written entirely by mental health consumers. This booklet is all about mental health consumers' stories - how we use them, why we might not use them, and how we can best make use of our stories when we do share them.
Charter of Peer Support
Resource | 2011
The Charter of Peer Support has been developed to ensure that peer support services are available to consumers and carers when and where we need it.
Service Guideline for Gender Sensitivity and Safety
Resource | 2011
This guideline sets out what is required of services and individual practitioners to provide gender-sensitive care for women, men and people who identify as transgender or intersex people
Framework for Recovery-oriented Practice
Resource | 2011
The Framework for Recovery-oriented Practice identifies the principles, capabilities, practices and leadership that underpin a recovery-oriented approach to mental health service delivery.
Dual diagnosis: key directions for service development
Resource | 2007
This document clarifies priorities and directions for dual diagnosis service development in Vic. It highlights service delivery issues and provides guidance for service leaders and managers responsible for ensuring that dual diagnosis becomes core business within their services.