Aboriginal mental health worker program 'working both ways'

• Reach:

  NT

• Focus area:

  Indigenous

• Status:

  Completed

• Evaluated:

  Yes

Overview

A program to provide a cultural link between Indigenous and mental health service providers (GP's and visiting mental health professionals) who in the majority are non-Indigenous. The program started in 2002 to fund the provision of two AMHW's for eight remote community health centres in the NT. An evaluation was undertaken by Charles Darwin University.

Contacts

Beyondblue
PO Box 6100
Hawthorn West 3122
Ph: 1300 224 63

Charles Darwin University
Ph: 1800 061 963

Related publications

Harris A, Robinson G (2007)

The Aboriginal Mental Health Worker Program: The challenge of supporting Aboriginal involvement in mental health care in the remote community context.

Australian e-Journal for the Advancement of Mental Health; 6(1): 15-25

• Links
• View abstract: The Aboriginal Mental Health Worker Program: The challenge of supporting Aboriginal involvement in mental health care in the remote community context
• View article: The Aboriginal Mental Health Worker Program: The challenge of supporting Aboriginal involvement in mental health care in the remote community context (PDF - 81.6 KB)
• View website: Australian e-Journal for the Advancement of Mental Health

Evaluated publications

Robinson G, Harris A (2005)

Aboriginal mental health worker program: final evaluation report.

Casuarina, NT: School for Social and Policy Research, Institute of Advanced Studies, Charles Darwin University

• Links
• View report: Aboriginal mental health worker program: final evaluation report (PDF - 3.9 MB)
• View website: Charles Darwin University

Links

• View information: Aboriginal mental health worker program ‘working both ways’
• View website: Beyondblue