The Centre of Best Practice in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Suicide Prevention (CBPATSISP) is Australia’s leading authority on Indigenous suicide. The Centre aims to reduce the causes, prevalence and impact of suicide on Indigenous individuals, families and communities.
VTMH Resources for working with interpreters
Resource | 2023
One of four free online modules aiming to support practitioners in working with interpreters in mental health settings. The module helps to identify practical strategies and steps to take for engaging with and discovering useful ways to approach your work with interpreters
Victoria’s mental health services annual report 2022-2023
Resource | 2023
This report focuses on Victoria’s state-funded mental health and wellbeing services and the people who accessed these services for treatment, care and support in 2022–23.
Mental Health and Wellbeing Act 2022 Handbook
Resource | 2023
This handbook is designed to help clinicians access the information they need to practice in accordance with the Victorian Mental Health and Wellbeing Act 2022.
Co-design Kickstarter
Resource | 2023
A guide to the co-design of research that draws on the knowledge(s) of people with lived and living experience. This resource is for people who have an interest in deepening participation and co-designing research in MH & AO. Published by the Community Mental Health Drug and Alcohol Research Network
LE Governance Framework: Centring People, Identity and Human Rights for the Benefit of All
Resource | 2023
‘the Framework’ responds to calls from the mental health and other sectors for changes in the way systems are governed to align them more strongly with human rights approaches and to meaningfully embrace lived experience. Its applicability and reach span a spectrum of settings and sectors.
Toolkit to Authentically Embed Lived Experience Governance
Resource | 2023
The toolkit provides users with a selection of tools and resources to assist in exploring and assessing their own governance processes and formulate a pathway towards embedding lived experience governance across their systems, structures, policies, processes, practices, programs and services.
Lived Experience Leadership Digital Library
Resource | 2023
The Lived Experience Leadership Digital Library is a central repository of mental health consumer and carer leadership-related knowledge and initiatives:
- Lived Experience Leadership
- Engagement and Participation
- Co-design and Co-production
- Lived Experience Workforce
- Lived Experience Research
Intentional Peer Support Co-reflection Guides
Resource | 2023
This page includes a video about co-reflection and links to the following guiding documents:
Integration of Care in Practice
Resource | 2023
This VDDILG and VAADA document highlights a number of models, tools and activities that capture the integration of alcohol and drug activities into the mental health community and bed-based services.