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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.

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Community Engagement with Purpose

Resource | 2023

VTMH’s Community Engagement with Purpose resource is a comprehensive suite of resources to support mental health workers and mental health organisations undertake community engagement work.

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Improving sexual safety in mental health and wellbeing services

Resource | 2023

This Chief Psychiatrist’s guideline sets out the relevant legislation and policy and establishes minimum standards for, promoting sexual safety, supporting human rights, assessing and managing risks, identifying and responding to incidents, and reporting sexual safety incidents.

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Families where a Parent has a Mental Illness (FaPMI) - Program Guidelines

Resource | 2023

The FaPMI program aims to improve outcomes for clients who are parents, their children and their families by reducing the impact of parental mental illness on all family members through timely, coordinated, preventative and supportive action within Adult Mental Health Services (AMHS).

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National Lived Experience Workforce Guidelines

Resource | 2022

The Guidelines are intended to inform employers and funding bodies and to support change across the mental health sector by improving understanding of the benefits of the Lived Experience workforce and by supporting employers to assess their local readiness and prioritise activities.

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Mental Health Intensive Care Framework

Resource | 2020

Mental health intensive care is a specialist care type that provides supportive, therapeutic engagement to individuals experiencing increased vulnerability during an acute phase of mental illness. 

The framework further identifies and highlights key contemporary and best practice principles.

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Power Threat Meaning Framework

Resource | 2020

The Power Threat Meaning Framework has been developed as an alternative to more traditional models based on psychiatric diagnosis and applies not just to people who have been in contact with the mental health or criminal justice systems, but to all of us.

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Victoria's clinical supervision framework for mental health nurses

Resource | 2018

This framework is designed to support individual nurses to meet their clinical supervision needs and to contribute positively to evolving mental health services. Using this framework as a foundation, local services can further develop relevant, service-specific guidelines.

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Co-production - Putting principles into practice in mental health contexts

Resource | 2018

This resource has been developed to inform and support understanding, planning, and implementing co-production initiatives specifically within the context of Victorian mental health services

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Talking about Trauma Series

Resource | 2018

As a society, and as practitioners it can be difficult to know how to respond appropriately to people who have experienced trauma. For this reason, Blue Knot Foundation has developed a Talking about Trauma series.

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