VTMH News

After eight months of thought-provoking presentations, the 2015 VTMH Seminar Series has come to a close. VTMH is as always grateful to all the speakers who contributed to the 2015 Series, and generously gave their time and shared their experiences. This year, a wide variety of perspectives and topics were hosted. Sessions formats were rich and varied, including speakers, films, and a psyc read more...

Victorian Transcultural Mental Health has put forward a submission to the Department of Health and Human Services, in response to the Victorian 10 year Mental Health Strategy Plan Consultation process. To read the full VTMH submission, visit http://www.mentalhealthplan.vic.gov.au/application/files/5514/4237/5299/VTMH_10yearmhstrategy_150915.pdf (http://www.menta read more...

Are we there yet? Alfred & L.A.M.P.S Conference Explores Diversity Responsiveness in Mental Health Settings VTMH was invited to take part of the 2015 Alfred & L.A.M.P.S Diversity Conference - Are we there yet?, held on Wednesday 12th August 2015. The content and structure of the day was driven by an underlying need to know more about dimensions of diversity responsiveness in t read more...

Tasmanian Transcultural Mental Health, the Phoenix Centre and the Migrant Resource Centre - March 2015 Our Voices: stories from carers of migrant and refugee backgrounds Arefa, one of the carers from the film series and Silvana from VTMH shared some of their their experiences and motivations in making the film series and offered insights into some of the things learnt and gained via read more...

Colourfest, in partnership with Victorian Transcultural Mental Health, was pleased to host Migrating Minds: a forum on mental health within CALD migrant communities at the State Library of Victoria (SLV) on 26th March 2015. With tickets sold out within minutes of each release, it's clear that a lot of people are ready to talk about mental health in immigrant communities read more...

The following feedback was written by Bawi Phun Kul, Social Work student at Victoria University, following a 15 week placement with Victorian Transcultural Mental Health. Firstly, thank you Daryl and all for giving me the opportunity to do my placement here at VTMH. It has been a great experience to be here and I am very appreciative for this privilege. Honestly, I was feeling overwh read more...

VTMH is pleased to announce that in response to requests from a number of services, we are presenting a series of applied knowledge and skills workshops. These full day and half day interactive workshops are designed to support practitioners looking to expand and implement diversity responsive mental health practice in their workplace. Watch this space for upcoming dates, and register with our read more...

VTMH is pleased to be able to offer a new online introductory tool "Conversations in Cultural Responsiveness" to Victorian mental health services. In 2013 VTMH engaged the services of Rajiv Ramanathan from Practical Visionaries and commenced consultations with a number of mental health service providers to guide the content and presentation of a cultural diversity resource for mental heal read more...