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Welcome to our first VTPU quarterly newsletter available on our website at www.vtpu.org.au .
We look forward to keeping you informed about changes and directions in mental health service provision for CALD communities. We thank all partners and contributors for their informative articles. All contributions, updates and opinion pieces are welcome via the forums page on our website. In this edition we feature the following articles.
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Reviewing VTPU strategic directions |
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The report on "Access to mental health services in Victoria: A focus on ethnic communities" Stolk Y, Minas H, Klimidis S (2008) concludes that... more |
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| Update on VTPU reference group |
| The first meeting of the VTPU reference group was held on Friday 30th March 2009...more |
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Proposal for a Victorian Mental Health and Cultural Diversity Taskforce
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| The right to health and freedom from discrimination are fundamental...more |
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Module one Migration, acculturation and identity influences on mental health |
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In this edition we feature the first module titled: Migration, acculturation and identity: Influences on mental health...more |
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Goulburn valley area mental health service and the VTPU pilot project |
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The Goulburn Valley Area Mental Health Service is delighted to be involved with this exciting best practice evaluation project...more |
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The role of the cultural portfolio holder, the lynchpin in the service |
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Ever since I started my career in psychiatric nursing in the early 90’s in the Western suburbs of Melbourne it was clear to me that mental illness was more than a simple health issue...more |
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No organization is an island, entire of itself |
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John Donne’s famous poem identifies that man cannot live isolated from one another, but that mankind is interconnected ...more |
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The Victorian Foundation for survivors of torture |
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The Victorian Foundation for Survivors of Torture (VFST), also known as Foundation House, was established 21 years ago to meet the needs of refugees and survivors of torture and trauma...more |
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Pathways to partnerships |
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VICSERV has recently released Pathways to Social Inclusion, a series of linked papers that make a compelling case for changes...more |
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Combating mental illness in CALD communities |
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Multicultural Mental Health Australia (MMHA) has stepped up its campaign to raise awareness of mental illness in culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) communities and combat stigma...more |
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What’s culture got to do with it? |
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I am hoping that in today’s Mental Health Services; people are discovering ways to work together to improve their lives and their communities...more |
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A mental health consumer's glimpse of the past? |
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| My story involves the conditions, circumstances, and tragedies involved in being in the Mental Health System...more |
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| Child & Adolescent Mental Health Services Statewide Culturally and Linguistically Diverse (CALD) Survey 2008: A Victorian Transcultural Psychiatry Unit Initiative |
| The Child & Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS) Statewide CALD Survey 2008 was initially conceived as part of the Victorian Transcultural Psychiatry Unit African Child/Youth Working Group...more |
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UPCOMING VTPU EVENTS
VTPU SEMINAR SERIES
Venue: VTPU Seminar Room, Level 2, Bolte Wing, St Vincent's Hospital, 14 Nicholson St Fitzroy.
Time: Seminar 3.00-4.00pm
Transcultural Case Presentation: 4.15 - 5.15pm
To view the full 2009 seminar series program, click here
TRAINING: CULTURALLY COMPETENT MENTAL HEALTH SERVICE PROVISION FOR A MULTICULTURAL SOCIETY
To view the full program or to register, click here
VTPU REFERENCE GROUP MEETING
Next meeting to be held on Friday 29th May 2009 @ 2.00pm.
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