We connect lived and living experience leadership, innovative service deliveryand cutting-edge research to drive
ground-breaking change to Victoria’s
mental health and wellbeing system
About the Collaborative Centre
The Collaborative Centre was established to lead genuine and lasting transformation across the mental health and wellbeing system.
The ‘Consortium Connect’ event brought together key leaders from research, policy, and practice to advance mental health reform in Victoria. This included the Collaborative Centre’s Adult and Older Adult Best Practice Consortium Partners, led by The University of Melbourne and Royal Melbourne Hospital, with a network of 20 metropolitan, regional and rural health services, community organisations and research institutions.
Community-based models of care facilitating the recovery of people living with persistent and complex mental health needs: a systematic review and narrative synthesis
This systematic review examined community-based mental health models supporting recovery for people with persistent, complex mental health needs. Analysing 59 studies across eight model types, researchers found promising evidence for intensive case management and integrated community treatment, but noted limited focus on personal recovery outcomes and insufficient consumer involvement in research design.
Victorian Suicide Prevention and Response Strategy 2024-2034
The Victorian suicide prevention and response strategy 2024-2034 outlines a 10-year whole-of-government approach to reduce suicide across all Victorian communities. Developed through extensive co-design with people with lived experience, it focuses on six priority areas: connected systems, strengthened supports, capable workforces, community action, government collaboration, and evidence-based delivery.
Mental Health and Wellbeing Act
The Mental Health and Wellbeing Act 2022 (Vic) is the primary piece of legislation with respect to mental health in Victoria and is the backbone of the regulatory framework for mental health. It is intended to ensure that Victorians obtain the highest standard of mental health and wellbeing and to reform the mental health system in accordance with the vision and recommendations of the 2021 Royal Commission into Victoria's Mental Health System.
Elimination of restrictive practices from acute adult mental health care services: A qualitative evidence synthesis of the lived experience literature.
This qualitative evidence synthesis explores the perceptions and experiences of mental health service users and practitioners regarding the use and proposed elimination of restrictive practices, such as seclusion and physical/mechanical restraint, in acute adult mental health care services.
The appropriateness of DUNDRUM-3 and DUNDRUM-4 for Maori in forensic mental health services in New Zealand: participatory action research
The Auckland Regional Forensic Psychiatry Services (ARFPS) in New Zealand has introduced structured clinical judgment instruments developed in Ireland (DUNDRUM-3 and DUNDRUM-4) to assist staff decision-making regarding service users’ clinical pathways. In New Zealand, Māori (the indigenous people) constitute 43% of the in-patient forensic mental health population. The aim of this study was to determine the face validity of the measures for Māori.
living experience leadership, innovative service delivery
and cutting-edge research to drive
ground-breaking change to 
Victoria’s
mental health and wellbeing system
