Self-directed online training
Event description
This advanced workshop is designed for mental health practitioners looking to apply a community engagement lens to their practice, or those working in mental health settings looking to engage with diverse communities around mental health and wellbeing.Participants will explore core concepts, practices and actions that underpin community engagement work in mental health settings and consider organisational factors that can help and hinder community engagement efforts.
The workshop is designed around the Community Engagement with Purpose Resource Project (VTMH, 2023), which used a co-design process to develop a suite of resources to support practitioners and organisations engage with diverse communities around mental health. Participants attending the workshop will receive a hard copy of the Resource Booklet and Project Report and explore videos and other materials created through the project.
The workshop utilises a variety of facilitation modes, including small group work, grounded in a reflective practice approach.
An intentional and responsive approach to community engagement creates the opportunity for more purposeful and inclusive participation by diverse communities, to shape mental health service design and delivery.
To learn more about the Community Engagement with Purpose Project, please visit https://vtmh.org.au/engaging-with-communities/
This session will cover:
n this workshop, participants will
Understand the notion of ‘community’
Explore and reflect on the purpose of community engagement in mental health settings
Recognize and critically reflect on the ways in which power operates in community engagement work
Explore meaningful ways, and barriers, to building relationships with communities
Recognise the varied nature of lived experience and importance of openness to diverse ways communities and individuals hold experiences
Understand and apply a range of concepts, practices and actions that underpin community engagement work in mental health settings.
Understand the notion of ‘community’
Explore and reflect on the purpose of community engagement in mental health settings
Recognize and critically reflect on the ways in which power operates in community engagement work
Explore meaningful ways, and barriers, to building relationships with communities
Recognise the varied nature of lived experience and importance of openness to diverse ways communities and individuals hold experiences
Understand and apply a range of concepts, practices and actions that underpin community engagement work in mental health settings.
Eligibility criteria
This workshop is designed to build on key concepts, principles and practices explored in VTMH’s Foundations of Culturally Responsive Practice for Mental Health Practitioners Workshop and/or the VTMH online module, Orientation to Cultural Responsiveness. We believe you will have a deeper learning experience if you have had the opportunity to work with concepts, principles and practices explored in the above prior to attending this workshop, as knowledge of these concepts and practices will be assumed.
If you have not completed the prerequisite learning, we recommend you attend the VTMH Foundations of Culturally Responsive Practice for Mental Health Practitioners Workshop (click here) or complete the VTMH online module Orientation to Cultural Responsiveness (click here) prior to registering.
If you have not completed the prerequisite learning, we recommend you attend the VTMH Foundations of Culturally Responsive Practice for Mental Health Practitioners Workshop (click here) or complete the VTMH online module Orientation to Cultural Responsiveness (click here) prior to registering.
Categories:
Capability 3 - Working with diverse consumers, families, and communities
Disciplines:
Allied Health
Levels:
Advanced
