Cultural diversity plan for Victoria's specialist mental health services 2006-2010

Cultural diversity plan for Victoria's specialist mental health services 2006-2010 (October 2006) (PDF File 103KB) Hard copies can be ordered from the on-line ordering page

This document 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.

A series of consultations, conducted in the second half of 2005, informed the development of the plan.