Structural inequalities intersect with social, health, economic and community inequities and impact on people’s mental health and social and emotional wellbeing.
Inequalities relate to but are not limited by access, wealth, available resources and power, and are reinforced through structural mechanisms related to policies, laws, everyday practices and systems of care.
The Whose Care? Our Care! project is a Medical Research Future Fund Million Minds Mental Health Grant (MRF2032333; 2024-2029) that works with Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander people, LGBTIQA+SB and multicultural, culturally diverse communities and, rural and remote communities across more than 35 Medicare Mental Health Centres (adults and kids), Safe Spaces and Safe Havens, Community Led Safe Spaces, Mental Health and Wellbeing Locals and a First Nations led and governed model.
The aim is to co-develop multi-level collective strategies to address structural inequalities using a participatory ecosystems framework. In doing so the project is mapping culturally responsive care, lived experience integration and accessibility and communication across the different settings to explore experiences of care and what matters in care delivery to address structural inequalities.
Presenters
- Professor Victoria Palmer, Co-director ALIVE National Centre for Mental Health Research Translation; Whose Care? Our Care! Principal Investigator
- Dr Matthew Lewis, Senior Research Fellow ALIVE National Centre for Mental Health Research Translation; Whose Care? Our Care! Project Manager
The project is a co-partnership with service providers Neami National, Stride, Roses in the Ocean and Ampe-kenhe Ahelhe Children’s Ground Central Australia.
VTMH webinars are open to individuals, from all disciplines and working in all sectors, who are based in Australia and interested in diversity and mental health.
- Where: Online via Microsoft Teams Townhall — details to be sent to registrants in advance
- Cost: Free
- Bookings: essential, spaces are limited. To secure a place, please register early online via VTMH
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Victorian Transcultural Mental Health (VTMH)
Address: St Vincent’s Hospital Melbourne, Level 1, Bolte Wing, 14 Nicholson Street, Fitzroy VIC 3065
Address: St Vincent’s Hospital Melbourne, Level 1, Bolte Wing, 14 Nicholson Street, Fitzroy VIC 3065
Tel: (03) 9231 3300
VTMH acknowledges it is located on the traditional lands of the Boon Wurrung and Woiwurrung (Wurundjeri) peoples of the Kulin Nation.