Partially delivered and in progress.
What the Royal Commission said
The Royal Commission highlighted opportunities to create an adaptive mental health and wellbeing system. This means a system that continues to improve over time. The features of an adaptive system include:
- research to establish a strong evidence base
- innovation to test and grow new ideas
- processes to capture new knowledge and translate it into practice
- evaluating the effects of new approaches
- sharing information so lessons learned can influence decisions about policy, program and practice improvements.
It recommended the Victorian Government establish a new Victorian Collaborative Centre for Mental Health and Wellbeing.
The Collaborative Centre will:
- work with existing research institutes and centres
- help mental health research across Victoria have a direct impact on services and systems
- make sure new research is in line with the Royal Commission’s priorities
- connect networks of academics and mental health practitioners that can apply research in services
- make sure research and evidence informs education and training for the mental health workforce
- collect, combine and share information from research
- provide advice to people working in mental health services about best practice approaches to treatment, care and support.
The Royal Commission also recommended the Victorian Government promote opportunities to increase collaboration on research into the mental health and wellbeing of infants, children and young people.
This recommendation is linked to Recommendation 65 and Interim Recommendation 1.
What we’ve achieved
- We have established the Victorian Collaborative Centre for Mental Health and Wellbeing to drive innovation in mental health treatment, care and support.
The Collaborative Centre is governed by an independent board which includes lived experience representation.
The Collaborative Centre has two lead partners, the Royal Melbourne Hospital and the University of Melbourne, and is supported by a network of mental health and research collaborators. - It brings together lived experience leadership, innovative service delivery, and mental health research to drive mental health system transformation.
The Collaborative Centre has workforce training functions which will lead workforce development for Victoria’s mental health and wellbeing system. - Additionally, the Collaborative Centre launched its Translational Research Strategy 2024-27 in September 2024.
- The Strategy emphasises the use of research and evidence across the mental health and wellbeing system to guide care delivery, policy decisions, and workforce development.
What we’re doing
Read more about the Victorian Collaborative Centre for Mental Health and Wellbeing.
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