We’ve been commissioned by the National Mental Health Commission to investigate and report on best-practice partnerships between Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander organisations and communities, and mainstream mental health services. This is the one of the early stages in a body of work the National Mental Health Commission is taking to improve the quality of mental health services provided by mainstream organisations to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.
The report will have two main elements:
- principles, processes and practices that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander organisations say are important for partnerships (based largely on a desk audit of peer-reviewed articles and grey literature)
- case studies highlighting the many ways that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander organisations and mainstream mental health organisations, can work together.
The overall aim of the work is to encourage mainstream mental health services to form partnerships with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander organisations, and to do so in appropriate ways and following appropriate processes, so as to improve the quality of their services to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.
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