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July 28, 2022

Spotlight on: VTMH Team Member – Shehani De Silva

This is a new section to our twice yearly e-newsletter. We realise that while many of you reading this do work with some members of our team, many of you don’t know who we are! We would like to be a little more personal and share some information about each of our team members in… Read more »

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July 28, 2022

Successful oration evening remembers late VTMH manager Daryl Oehm, and highlights contemporary challenges in transcultural mental health

VTMH was pleased to hold the Inaugural Daryl Oehm Oration, on the evening of Wednesday, 18 May 2022. Inaugural Oration speaker, Azmeena Hussain OAM, spoke to the theme of the evening, Struggles of marginalised identities and their precarious existence, by weaving together her personal and professional experiences in the field of law, to link advocacy,… Read more »

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July 28, 2022

VTMH is expanding!

We currently have two vacancies available for the following positions: A part time (22.8 hours per week) position as a Carer Consultant. You would be responsible for providing education and service development support to mental health services in Victoria’s public mental health system in order to improve the quality of service delivery to diverse communities. … Read more »

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July 28, 2022

The Spirituality & Diversity Discussion Project   

Spiritual Health Association (SHA) in partnership with Victorian Transcultural Mental Health (VTMH) has been running The Spirituality & Diversity Discussion Project since 2019. As part of this project, reflective peer group sessions have been facilitated for mental health practitioners to integrate spiritual themes into their practices.   Over the past few months, 3 sessions were… Read more »