We know that to deliver meaningful change, we must work together. This means making sure that there are diverse voices and perspectives in the room. We want to ensure that our partnerships and collaborations have clear purpose, mutual benefits, and meaningful outcomes.
Our Collaborative Charter outlines our approach to building strong relationships. (Accessible version here)
The Charter has eight principles that guide how we partner and collaborate. It also defines what success looks like, to guide whether our collaborations are having positive outcomes for all participants
The Charter ensures that our partnerships and collaborations are aligned to our foundational values: embedding lived and living experiences, building strong connections and relationships, and upholding human rights and social justice.
Our lead partners
Under the Mental Health and Wellbeing Act 2022, the Collaborative Centre has been entrusted with driving a system wide transformation through partnership, innovation, and lived and living experience.
We’re pleased to appoint the Royal Melbourne Hospital and the University of Melbourne as our lead partners. Together, they bring a deep expertise and a shared commitment to driving meaningful reform. This partnership model ensures that insights coming from lived and living experience can directly inform new ways of working, leading to more compassionate, effective, and inclusive care for all Victorians.
These partners are also at the centre of a broader collective, the Adult and Older Adult Best Practice Consortium, a powerful network of 18 health and research organisations working together to build a better future.
Australian Catholic University
Barwon Health
cohealth
Dardi Munwurro
Deakin University
Forensicare
(in partnership with the Centre for Behavioural Science, Swinburne University)Goulburn Valley Health
Grampians Health Service
Mind Australia
Northern Health
RMIT University
St Vincent’s Hospital Melbourne
Swinburne University
The ALIVE National Centre for Mental health Research Translation
The Bouverie Centre, La Trobe University
Uniting Vic.Tas
Victoria University
Western Health
The Collaborative Centre also collaborates with:
- Victorian Multicultural Commission
- Mental Health and Wellbeing Commission
- VACCHO
- Safer Care Victoria
- VMIAC
- Tandem Carers
- SHARC
- Harm Reduction
- Mental Health Victoria
- Wellways
- Neami National
- SANE
- Hamilton Centre
- Turning Point
- Spectrum
- Women’s Health Victoria
We’re bringing together diverse expertise, perspectives, and lived and living experiences to shape research and service improvement.
Together, we will:
- Promote and protect the rights of people accessing mental health and wellbeing treatment, care, and support
- Lead and translate research into new, evidence informed practices that are meaningful and effective
- Support families, carers, and supporters through better tools, knowledge, and models of care
- By working as one (researchers, services, and people with lived experience) we’re building a system that learns, evolves and heals.
This partnership is not just a milestone; it’s a movement toward a more responsive and inclusive future for all.