Building a Trauma, Culture & Rural Mental Health Consortium: Reducing Suicide & Traumatic Aftermath in Culturally Diverse Communities in Tasmania (Staff)Project commencement date:November 2007
Project completion date:November 2008
This project makes use of existing organisational structures, research and practice in order to increase capacity for the management of suicide-related crises in culturally diverse communities and associated services in Tasmania.
The project is evidence-based and outcome-oriented, including the key sustainability objective of building community capacity to contribute to future mental health program development.
This program is a partnership developed between the University of Tasmania's Department of Rural Health (DDRH), based in Launceston, and Phoenix, a program in Migrant Resource Centre (MRC) in Hobart.
Both partners have active, extensive intra and inter-state networks and international relationships to enable the development and export of local expertise in working in rural and regional areas, while drawing on leading international and national sources.
Target Group
The project will specifically target high risk refugee and migrant populations in Tasmania, through well established pathways associated with the exiting MRC (South), Phoenix and UDRH networks. The project will also seek to develop links with the Pallawah or Tasmanian Aboriginal Population due to the common issues of marginalisation and disenfranchisement which apply. The broader population will benefit from the capacity building of mental health practitioners and communities which result.
Purpose of the Project
The primary goal of this project is to increase the capacity for the prevention and management of suicide-related crises in refugee and other vulnerable migrant communities and associated support services in Tasmania. This will be achived by enhancing and utilising existing organisational structures and networks, drawing on best practice expertise and existing research. This will support two new professional staff, whose roles will include client work, community development work and training. Outcomes will be evidence-based, practical and responsive to policy, and build the capacity of communities to contribute to future mental health program development.
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