Victorian based organisations and training providers who provide professional development, training workshops, and on-demand elearning for the mental health sector and Lived and Living Experience workforce. Training and learning sessions may be fee based, though many are free. Visit the agencies website to discover more about their current offerings.
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| The Bouverie Centre | Research and workforce training | The Bouverie Centre is a specialist family therapy centre operating as an integrated practice, research and translation service. It combines clinical family therapy, model development, academic teaching, research, workforce development and community education. |
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| Centre for Excellence in Child & Family Welfare | Advocacy & community peak body | The Centre strengthens and guides the child and family sector, building resilience, collaboration and shared success. It sets standards for professional education and practice in child and family services. |
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| Centre for Evidence & Implementation | Research and workforce training | CEI is a global, social purpose organisation that helps generate, find, translate, use and implement evidence to improve people's lives. |  Events and news |
| Centre for Mental Health Nursing | Research and workforce training | The Centre for Mental Health Nursing actively engages with the Victorian mental health nursing sector to strengthen mental health nursing practices. |  CMHN Workshops |
| Centre for Muslim Wellbeing | Advocacy & community peak body | Provides training and professional development courses designed to build awareness, knowledge and capacity of mental health sector organisations to deliver culturally responsive support services to the Muslim community. |
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| Discovery College | Community & peer support | Discovery College supports learning about mental health and wellbeing in ways that feel safe, inclusive and meaningful. It offers courses, panels, podcasts and digital content to explore mental health. | Course list |
| Foundation House | Community & peer support | Foundation House is a specialist refugee trauma agency supporting survivors of torture and other traumatic events. |
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| Hamilton Centre | Clinical & specialist Services | The Hamilton Centre works towards integrated, inclusive care for people with co-occurring mental health and substance use conditions, breaking down service silos across Victoria. |
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| IMHA — Independent Mental Health Advocacy | Advocacy & community peak body | IMHA is an independent advocacy service that also provides rights-based training and eLearning for the mental health workforce. | Workshops and training |
| MHPOD — Mental Health Professional Online Development | Research and workforce training | MHPOD provides free access to online learning in a long-form, multimedia-rich format, with over 100 hours of material on mental health topics relevant to Australia's mental health workforce and health professionals. | Mental Health Learning Portal |
| Mental Health Victoria | Advocacy & community peak body | Mental Health Victoria is the independent peak body for mental health in Victoria, providing independent policy advice and advocacy, evidence and knowledge sharing, and networking and collaboration for the sector. |
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| Mindful Centre for Training and Research in Developmental Health | Research and workforce training | Mindful is the Victorian statewide unit responsible for workforce development and research in child and adolescent mental health, part of the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Melbourne. | Mental health training |
| NEXUS — St Vincent's Hospital Melbourne | Clinical & specialist Services | Nexus is a specialist team committed to improving service delivery for people living with co-occurring mental illness and substance use or addiction (dual diagnosis), promoting best practice at state, national and international levels. | Tuesdays with Nexus |
| No to Violence | Advocacy & community peak body | No to Violence specialises in evidence-informed engagement with men. Its primary concern is the safety and wellbeing of women and children affected by family violence. | Training calendar |
| Orygen | Research and workforce training | Orygen works with young people and partners to redefine what is possible in global youth mental health research, policy, education and clinical care. |
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| Phoenix Australia | Research and workforce training | Phoenix Australia is the Australian National Centre of Excellence in Post traumatic Mental Health, providing education and training in trauma-informed care and post traumatic mental health. |
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| Parkville Youth Mental Health & Wellbeing Service (PYMHWS) | Clinical & specialist Services | PYMHWS is Victoria's first dedicated public mental health service for young people aged 12–25. Its Clinical Training Program offers affordable, high-quality training and service development support for mental health practitioners across Victoria's youth mental health sector. | Education and training |
| Rainbow Health Australia | Advocacy & community peak body | Rainbow Health Australia supports LGBTIQA+ health and wellbeing through research and knowledge translation, training, resources, policy advice and service accreditation via the Rainbow Tick. | Training programs |
| Safer Care Victoria | Statutory body | Safer Care Victoria works with clinicians and consumers to help health services deliver better, safer healthcare to Victorians. |
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| Spectrum BPD | Clinical & specialist Services | Spectrum provides individualised treatment, consultation, support, training, resources, research and advocacy for people with borderline personality disorder (BPD) and complex trauma. | Education and training calendar |
| Spiritual Health Association | Research and workforce training | Spiritual Health Association is the national peak body for spiritual care in the health sector, advocating for and promoting compassionate, person-centred spiritual care in health services. |
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| Victorian Alcohol and Drug Association (VAADA) | Advocacy & community peak body | VAADA is Victoria's peak body representing Alcohol and Other Drug (AOD) services, leading AOD policy, workforce development and sector discussion to prevent and reduce AOD harms in Victoria. | Events calendar |
| Victorian Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisations (VACCHO) | Advocacy & community peak body | VACCHO is the peak representative body for the health and wellbeing of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in Victoria, supporting over 65,000 people across 34 member organisations. |  Workforce development (WoW Strategy) |
| Victorian Collaborative Centre for Mental Health and Wellbeing (VCCMHW) | Governance & quality assurance | VCCMHW works in partnership with people with lived and living experience to translate evidence into innovative and effective practice, driving change to Victoria's mental health and wellbeing system. |
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| Victorian Dual Disability Service (VDDS) | Clinical & specialist Services | VDDS is a statewide initiative dedicated to improving the mental health of Victorians aged 16 and over with developmental disorders who are experiencing mental health issues, providing clinical advice and training for health professionals. | Training and development |
| Victorian Centre of Excellence in Eating Disorders (CEED) | Clinical & specialist Services | CEED is an inclusive platform providing healthcare professionals with specialised training and resources to enhance expertise in addressing and treating eating disorders. |
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| Victorian Transcultural Mental Health (VTMH) | Research and workforce training | VTMH is the lead transcultural and intersectional mental health service for the state of Victoria, supporting the mental health workforce to work effectively with culturally and linguistically diverse communities. |  Events calendar |
| Women's Health Victoria | Advocacy & community peak body | Women's Health Victoria provides essential training to health and community sector professionals, enhancing understanding of gender equity and its impact on health. | Training and resources hub |
| Women with Disabilities Victoria (WDV) | Advocacy & community peak body | Women with Disabilities Victoria is a not-for-profit Disabled Peoples Organisation representing women and gender diverse people with disabilities in Victoria. | Events and workshops |