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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Training Opportunity

4 – 12 August  |  9:45 AM – 3:30 PM Hearing Voices 4-day Training (In-Person August)

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Uniting's Voices Vic is an award-winning and research supported specialist program improving the wellbeing and recovery of people who hear voices. ​​​

Prahran
Hosted by Voices Vic
In Person Paid Carers Practitioners Service Leaders Consumers
Training Opportunity

5 – 6 August  |  9:30 AM – 4:30 PM Suicide & Self Harm Risk in YP: Understanding & Adapting Practice - (Aug)

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This workshop addresses approaches to assessing & responding to suicide & self-harm risk in young people with complex presentations.

Parkville
Hosted by Parkville Youth Mental Health & Wellbeing Service
In Person Paid Practitioners
Training Opportunity

6 – 7 August  |  9:30 AM – 4:00 PM CEED - Advanced Training in ED Focused Family Therapy

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This workshop is for mental health clinicians, experienced with family-based therapy for eating disorders, who want to reflect on and develop a stronger focus on therapy processes with families, while also maintaining fidelity to the treatment structure and goals.

Royal Park
Hosted by CEED
In Person Paid Practitioners
Training Opportunity

10 – 12 August  |  8:30 AM – 4:30 PM Mindful - ADOS-2 Advanced - (Aug)

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The Autism Diagnostic Observation Schedule - Second Edition (ADOS-2) is a semi-structured, standardised assessment of communication, social interaction, and play.

Travancore
Hosted by Mindful
In Person Paid Practitioners

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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.
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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.
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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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New publication explores common challenges across Australia's care and support sectors

A new article by the Collaborative Centre's Dr Kay Wilson, published in the Federal Law Review by Cambridge University Press, provides the first comparative analysis of the final reports from the Victorian Mental Health Royal Commission and the Commonwealth Royal Commissions into Disability and Aged Care.

More than 280 educators come together to inspire practice development

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Understanding what happens when antidepressants are stopped

Dr Alec Jamieson is using ultra-high-field brain imaging and Lived and Living Experience to explore what happens in the brain when people stop taking antidepressants, supported by a Victorian Collaborative Centre for Mental Health and Wellbeing and University of Melbourne Mental Health Research Partnership Grant.