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Integrating Transcultural Issues into Youth Services and Capacity Building
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The aim of this project is to ensure that the needs of young people from CALD backgrounds and their families form an integral part of youth programs and school curriculum. TMHC is involved in a range of initiatives that address this challenge by building partnerships and assisting with resource and infrastructure developments outside the health sector.
These include:
School-Link Managing Depression Training Module
This collaborative initiative between NSW Health and the Department of Education and Training links schools with adolescent mental health services by building improved referral mechanisms and the development of resources.
As part of this initiative TMHC developed a school staff training resource called ‘Depression in young people from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds’. The resource includes a facilitator’s manual, participant handouts and handbook, demographic data and a video case vignette.
The resource is used by School Link trainers from the NSW Institute of Psychiatry. The School Link program is a collaboration between child and adolescent mental health services and schools to improve the earlier identification and treatment for children and adolescents with mental health problems.
For more information about School Link click HERE.
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Last Updated 01 Feb 2012
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