December 13, 2022
Highlighting the history of the Mental Health and Cultural Diversity Community of Practice at TheMHS 2022
To date, the Mental Health and Cultural Diversity Community of Practice (MHCD CoP), convened by VTMH, has supported a diverse cohort of practitioners across a range of settings, including those beyond the mental health sector, to come together to exchange ideas, thoughts and experiences regarding a broad range of issues relating to cultural diversity and… Read more »
December 13, 2022
MHPN Book Club Podcast
Radhika and Nivanka from VTMH recorded a session for the MHPN Book Club podcast in September, 2022. In this episode of Book Club, they explored Judith Herman’s ‘Trauma and Recovery: The Aftermath of Violence – From Domestic Abuse to Political Terror’ (1992). Radhika and Nivanka reflected on the book’s powerful themes of witnessing and remembering… Read more »
December 13, 2022
VTMH’s Lived Experience Community of Practice
VTMH’s Education and Service Development Consultant Abie Jazi and Lived Experience Consultant Naomi Chapman have facilitated three further meetings of VTMH’s Lived Experience Community of Practice (VTMH’s LE CoP) since our last newsletter in July of this year. The objectives of the group are to explore and expand understandings of: 1. How lived experience practitioners… Read more »
December 13, 2022
Our work with Headspace
This year VTMH has worked alongside Headspace Dandenong/Hastings sites to pilot a brief and contained service development engagement to support their developing workforce in relation to culturally responsive practice. The complexities of current funding arrangements and capacity consideration from both organisations rendered a whole of organisational partnership (VTMH’s Partners in Diversity Program) not possible this… Read more »
