Welcome to the Culturally and Linguistically Diverse (CaLD) Perinatal Mental Health Resource Portal for Health Professionals

The CaLD Perinatal Mental Health Resource Portal was compiled by the Victorian Transcultural Psychiatry Unit (VTPU) as a component of the CaLD Perinatal Project, which the VTPU managed as part of the Victorian response to the National Perinatal Depression Initiative. The CaLD Perinatal Resource Portal provides links to relevant organisations, publications and resources relating to perinatal mental health in CaLD communities for health professional/clinician’s working in the field.

Please click on the Quick Links for subject areas.

The VTPU provides additional links to other CaLD mental health resources under the Links page of our main website http://www.vtpu.org.au/

If you work in an organisation that provides services/resources relating to perinatal mental health in CaLD communities, and would like to be added to the portal, please contact vtpu@svhm.org.au

Please note that this is not an exhaustive list of services, and that the VTPU takes no responsibility for the quality of the information provided via these links. Links are provided for convenience only and may not be current. The VTPU is not responsible for the content of third party services or websites and provision of a link should not be construed as an endorsement or approval of the third party service or website. Please contact vtpu@svhm.org.au to report a broken link.

Online Training: Cultural responsiveness in perinatal mental health

As part of the CaLD Perinatal Project, the VTPU offers an free, non-accredited online training module for health professionals titled “Cultural responsiveness in perinatal mental health: Working effectively with women and their families from culturally and linguistically diverse (CaLD) backgrounds” which aims to provided staff with an introduction to cultural responsiveness in perinatal mental health settings.

Please click here to access the online training.