Two more SCALE-funded projects are now available, helping the workforce build culturally safe, bicultural and faith-attuned practice.
The Victorian Collaborative Centre for Mental Health and Wellbeing's Sector Capability and Learning Expansion (SCALE) initiative is supporting 13 workforce development projects to extend promising practice, learning and resources across Victoria's mental health and wellbeing workforce. These two additions bring a shared focus on strengthening culturally responsive practice, while working with different parts of the workforce.
What's launched
Cultural intelligence in mental health care: The Centre for Muslim Wellbeing is extending its Cultural Intelligence in Mental Health Care program to a broader Victorian workforce. This two-day workshop helps mental health, health and community service workers strengthen culturally safe, trauma-informed and faith-attuned practice with Muslim and multicultural communities, exploring communication, bias, assessment and the impacts of racism, Islamophobia, migration, trauma and systemic barriers.
It will be held online from 7 to 8 October, and in person at the Collaborative Centre from 16 to 17 November.
Strengthening bicultural practice in mental health settings: Alfred Mental and Addiction Health, working with cohealth, Better Health Network and Federation University, is expanding a workforce development program designed specifically for bicultural mental health workers and their managers. It supports bicultural clinicians and Lived and Living Experience workers to strengthen their practice, while helping services create safer, more supportive workplaces where bicultural knowledge and expertise are recognised and used.
This session is in person at the Collaborative Centre on Thursday 5 November.
Explore all the SCALE-funded projects for dates, delivery details and how to register, with more projects rolling out over the coming months.
