Connecting evidence, people, and practice across Victoria's mental health system

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Collaborative Centre

The Collaborative Centre supports a learning mental health and wellbeing system across Victoria.

We bring together research evidence, clinical wisdom, Lived and Living Experience expertise, and workforce capability to strengthen how the system learns, connects and improves.

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14 October | 9:30 AM – 4:30 PM Foundation House - Incidental Counselling 2-day workshop

Learn skills for responding to distress in people from refugee and asylum seeker backgrounds.

Brunswick

Hosted by Foundation House

In Person Paid Practitioners

9 September | 9:00 AM – 4:30 PM The Collective - Understanding, Valuing & Supporting Lived & Living Experience Workforces - July

This training is for non-LLEWs who want to better understand and work with their LLEW colleagues.

East Geelong

Hosted by The Collective

In Person Free Practitioners Service Leaders

9 – 10 September | 9:30 AM – 4:30 PM ADHD in YP with MH Difficulties: Understanding & Adapting Practice

This workshop explores the aetiology, screening, assessment, diagnosis & intervention strategies for ADHD.

Parkville

Hosted by Parkville Youth Mental Health & Wellbeing Service

In Person Paid Practitioners

10 September | 9:00 AM – 2:30 PM Mindful - Autism, Attachment & Trauma (Sept)

This 5.5-hour live webinar looks at attachment theory, and current knowledge about attachment in autistic children and youth.

Hosted by Mindful

Online Paid Practitioners

10 September | 10:00 AM – 3:00 PM Discovery College: Breaking the Taboo: Giving a voice to the topic of suicide [In-Person]

Giving a voice to the topic of suicide.

TBA

Hosted by Discovery College

In Person Free Carers Practitioners Service Leaders Consumers

10 September | 1:00 PM – 3:00 PM The Collective - Strengths-based support — it’s what we do

People always talk about strength-based support, but do we ever talk about what that actually means in practice?

Hosted by The Collective

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Research Translation & Practice Innovation Manager

Lead multi-agency research and practice innovation for Victoria's learning mental health system

SCALE projects rolling out

The first projects funded through the Collaborative Centre's SCALE initiative are now available to Victorian mental health practitioners, including a new bicultural workers podcast and a Lived and Living Experience Workforce (LLEW) community of practice, with registrations now open.

Leading with Lived Experience

How can researchers and people with Lived Experience expertise effectively and authentically work together in Lived-Experience-centred research?

Thanking our outgoing Board and welcoming our new Board

Yesterday, the Minister for Mental Health, Ingrid Stitt, announced the appointment of the new Board for the Victorian Collaborative Centre for Mental Health and Wellbeing.

Building digital capability across Victoria's mental health workforce

The Centre's first Digital Health for Mental Health webinar series brought together 526 practitioners across four sessions to explore digital tools, evaluation and emerging developments in mental health care.

Internships

Through a partnership involving the Victorian Collaborative Centre for Mental Health and Wellbeing, the University of Melbourne, the Australian Postgraduate Research Internship Program (APR.Intern) and partner organisations including Mind Australia and cohealth, PhD candidates worked alongside services to support quality improvement and strengthen outcomes for people accessing care.

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