Service Development and Systemic Advocacy
Transcultural Mental Health Access Program
Supporting Mental Health Services to work in culturally responsive ways
ADEC provides resources, expertise and leadership to workers and organisations that are seeking to make their service more culturally effective.
We do this by:
- Drawing on the cultural expertise of our staff from 14 different language groups
- Providing consultation on developing culturally responsive organisational policies
- Assisting organisations to develop targeted and systemic service responses when trying to increase access for ethnic communities
- Developing education, information and training sessions for services and their staff.
Systemic advocacy and development
The program works at a policy and systems level to investigate and inform government and service providers about ways to make mental health systems more accessible to people from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds.
ADEC does this by drawing upon the expertise of its ethic constituency and through consulting mental health services and other community services.
We also work with other state-wide and national ethnic and transcultural organisations to address the issue of access for ethnic communities to mental health services.
Further Information
If you would like any further information about the program, please contact:
Shehani de Silva
Transcultural Mental Health Access Program Coordinator
Phone: (03) 9480 1666
Fax: (03) 9480 3444
Toll Free: 1800 626 078
Email: mentalhealth@adec.org.au
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