July 28, 2022
Introduction of new team members – Nivanka, Steph & Abie
Early in 2022, the VTMH team welcomed three new team members. Nivanka De Silva is our new Psychiatry Registrar for 2022 to 2023. Nivanka has a Doctor of Medicine from the University of New South Wales and is in the process of completing a Master of Psychiatry through the University of Melbourne. Nivanka is excited… 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 »
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 »
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 »
