A hub for Victoria’s mental health and wellbeing community—connecting people to the information, toolkits, and research evidence they need.
The Knowledge Sharing Platform (KSP) is Victoria’s first statewide, AI-enabled resource hub designed to help the mental health and wellbeing workforce find and use the knowledge they need — when they need it.
It brings together trusted, relevant resources in one place, so practitioners, researchers and Lived and Living Experience contributors can stay connected, informed and supported in their work.
Each resource page is customised through AI to provide tailored summaries and context. You’ll find:
The KSP is developed with Collaborative Centre partners and contributors across Victoria. Resources are shaped by community expertise and grounded in the realities of care, service delivery and reform.
To help users navigate large volumes of material, the Platform uses an AI-enabled tool to analyse, tag and organise resources from Consortium partners and the broader sector. AI supports this process, but decisions about relevance, quality and inclusion remain with the Collaborative Centre and expert contributors.
The Knowledge Sharing Platform is designed to help you find, understand and apply the right knowledge quickly — whether you’re a researcher, practitioner, policymaker, consumer, carer, family member, supporter or kin.
Here are the key ways to get the most out of the Platform.
Browse collections developed with researchers, Lived and Living Experience leaders and workforce experts.
These collections bring together:
Collections are grouped by topics, populations, practice challenges and capability areas to support immediate use in real settings.
You can filter resources by:
These filters help you tailor your search to a specific role, context or decision-making moment.
Every resource page includes:
This structure helps you see where each resource fits in the broader evidence landscape.
Each resource page includes the section:
“How can this resource help me as a…?”
You can toggle between:
This feature provides direct, role-specific guidance on how the resource can be applied.
You can quickly identify whether a resource integrates:
This helps you understand the strength and diversity of knowledge informing the work.
Every resource includes a rating and feedback tool.
You can:
This helps the Platform continuously strengthen its relevance and quality — supporting a learning mental health system.
All resources contain:
You can go as deep into the evidence as you need.
A statewide platform that brings together research evidence, practice wisdom and Lived and Living Experience insight — helping Victoria’s mental health and wellbeing workforce access trusted knowledge quickly, consistently and safely.
Each resource is:
All decisions about inclusion remain human-led.
Use filters to narrow your search by resource type, population, capability, theme, evidence type or audience.
Or explore curated collections to get a ready-made set of resources on a topic.
Yes. Every resource includes a section titled “How can this resource help me as a…?”
You can toggle to your role to see a tailored explanation.
The Platform includes a secure Claude AI–driven Resource Submission and Analysis (RSA) tool. AI helps:
AI does not decide whether a resource is included. That responsibility sits with Collaborative Centre staff and expert contributors.
Yes. Email your resource and basic details to: knowledgesharing@vccmhw.vic.gov.au
This helps the Platform evolve as a living knowledge system.
The KSP reflects the Collaborative Centre’s commitment to transformative evidence — bringing together three interconnected forms of knowledge:
Lived and Living Experience
Insights grounded in the personal experiences of mental ill-health or psychological distress, and the experience of supporting someone through these challenges. This includes navigating services, advocating for rights and needs, and the wisdom gained through healing, relationships and community.
Practice wisdom
Knowledge developed through direct work in mental health and wellbeing settings. This includes relational and cultural capability, intuitive decision-making, therapeutic judgement, building safety and trust, and the practical insight that comes from working alongside consumers, families, carers, supporters and kin.
Research and evaluation
Findings from researchers, academics and evaluators that contribute to cycles of learning: building an evidence base, testing innovations, translating insights into practice, and monitoring outcomes across the system.
Together, these perspectives create practical, relevant and trustworthy content for people working in, and alongside, Victoria’s mental health and wellbeing system.
What is transformative evidence?
Transformative evidence is an approach that values different kinds of knowledge equally and brings them into deliberate conversation. You can read more about transformative evidence here.
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This AHURI research examined housing and mental health pathways for people with mental illness. Using quantitative analysis and consumer consultations, it identified five trajectories: excluded ...
This 2016 report by Melbourne University's Centre for Mental Health examines evidence-based psychosocial interventions suitable for early intervention under Australia's National Disability ...
PBU & NJE v Mental Health Tribunal involved two appeals challenging VCAT orders for compulsory electroconvulsive treatment (ECT). Both patients had schizophrenia but disputed their diagnoses while ...
Australia's national framework for recovery-oriented mental health services, developed in 2013, shifts from medical models to person-centered approaches emphasizing hope, self-determination, and ...
This report evaluates Adelaide's Connect Peer Service, a six-month pilot providing 12 weeks of peer support to people in mental health crisis. The lived experience-led service supported 84 ...
This guide is designed for those working in First Nations health and community service Financial Literacy and Gambling Behaviour in Victorian First Nations Communities to support a better ...
The Royal Commission into Victoria’s Mental Health System called for a major overhaul to create a safer, more inclusive, and accessible system, especially for culturally and linguistically diverse ...
This longitudinal study examined outcomes for 298 consumers across 19 Prevention and Recovery Care (PARC) services in Victoria, Australia. The research found significant improvements in personal ...
This Deakin University study examined eight informal carers supporting people with comorbid bipolar disorder and substance use disorders. Carers experienced significant challenges including ...
This 2018 literature review commissioned by the UN examined 169 studies on alternatives to coercion in mental health settings. It found that efforts to reduce, prevent and end coercive practices ...