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Ethnic Mental Health Consultants
The role of Ethnic Mental Health Consultants (EMHCs) is to work together with Cultural Portfolio Holders and Cultural Working Groups to:
- Improve equity in treatment provision for people from culturally diverse
communities by increasing mental health staffs awareness of the cultural
and linguistic diversity of the population in their catchment area and by
enhancing their cross-cultural clinical skills.
- Develop linkages with ethnic communities to improve access to mental health
services.
Activities of the EMHCs include:
- Cross-cultural clinical training and co-ordination of a range of culturally relevant staff development sessions;
- Provision of data on the ethnic profile of catchment area populations, refugees, and mental health service users;
- Policy development;
- Promotion and monitoring of interpreter use;
- Provision of information resources to mental health staff;
- Attend and resource Cultural Working Groups;
- Support and collaborate with Bilingual Case Managers and co-ordinate monthly Bilingual Case Managers Meetings, in collaboration with the Victorian
Transcultural Psychiatry Unit;
- In collaboration with the Victorian Transcultural Psychiatry Unit, Migrant Resource Centres and ethnospecific agencies, undertake community development projects with identified ethnic communities, e.g., mental health forums, radio programs, and so forth;
- Evaluation and quality improvement projects in cross-cultural issues in mental health.
Six Ethnic Mental Health Consultant positions are funded by the Department of Human Services across Victoria. |
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