Cultural diversity plan for Victoria’s specialist mental health services 2006–2010
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Mental Health Strategies and Plans
Victoria
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Victorian Government Department of Human Services
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IntroductionThis document, Cultural diversity plan for Victoria’s specialist mental health services, 2006–2010, provides a framework for improving mental health services’ accessibility and responsiveness to Victoria’s culturally and linguistically diverse communities.
The plan includes:
• background information about Victoria’s culturally and linguistically diverse communities and their rights and mental health needs
• examples of good practice in the delivery of mental health services to people from non-mainstream cultural groups
• strategies and actions for further developing mental health services’ capacity to meet the needs of people from diverse cultural backgrounds.
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