Koori mental health project

• Reach:

  VIC

• Focus area:

  Indigenous

• Status:

  Current

• Evaluated:

  No

Overview

The Koori mental health project seeks to make child and adolescent mental health services more accessible for Koori kids, young people, and their families. The project acknowledges the many barriers Koori families encounter when accessing mainstream mental health services and therefore endeavours to remove such barriers by creating a culturally safe place for Koori families.

The aims of the Koori mental health project are as follows:

• improve accessibility to the Royal Children's Hospital Mental Health Service (RCHMHS) for Koori families
• enhance the understanding of RCHMHS staff of the issues impacting on Koori children and their families
• facilitate a working partnership between RCHMHS and local Koori organisations and service providers
• create a culturally safe and sensitive environment within RCHMHS for Koori families.

The Koori mental health project is an initiative of RCHMHS and was developed in consultation with the Koori Kids Mental Health Network and the Koori Adolescent Mental Health Unit of the Victorian Aboriginal Health Service.

Contacts

Joel Wickham
Koori Mental Health Liaison Officer
Ph: (03) 9345 6046

Links

• View information: Koori mental health project
• View website: The Royal Children's Hospital Melbourne