Locals Resource Hub
This space provides a catalogue of Locals resources relevant to both Early Career learners and Educators.
Resources
This series of documents is intended to provide detailed yet flexible scaffolding for services establishing or reviewing a mental health early career program.
Appendices
Capability to Competency Guide
Coming soon. This document aims to support the translation of the ‘Our Workforce, Our Future: A Capability Framework for the Mental Health and Wellbeing Workforce’ into an early career context.
Our Workforce, Our Future
The ‘Our Workforce, Our Future’ Mental Health and Wellbeing Workforce Capability Framework provides a shared foundation for practice across Victoria’s mental health and wellbeing system. It outlines the core capabilities expected of the workforce, alongside guiding principles that reflect recovery-oriented, person-centred, culturally safe and inclusive care. Together, the principles and capabilities support a consistent approach to practice while allowing flexibility across different roles, disciplines and service contexts.
Within the Locals Early Career Program, the Framework is used to guide learning, support development, and help early career practitioners build the knowledge, skills and values needed to work safely and effectively in contemporary mental health and wellbeing services.
Building on the principles from the Framework and the Mental Health and Wellbeing Act 2022 The Mental Health and Wellbeing Commission have released a series of guiding documents to support mental health and wellbeing services to apply the principles across all levels of service design -https://www.mhwc.vic.gov.au/guidance
Principles
These seven principles were created within the Our Workforce, Our future framework and provide a view of the values and approaches that underpin all interactions between professionals and consumers, carers and families.
This Guidance Summary provides an overview of how clinicans can ensure their practice follows the principles.
Capabilities
These fifteen capabilities were created within the Our Workforce, Our Future framework, improving the delivery of quality care, support and treatment. Consumers, carers, family and supporters are centred in this model to remain adaptable and accurate.
Mental Health Victoria recognises that the intersectionality of these capabilities shapes and reflects the lived experiences of people with mental health conditions. While efforts have been made to ensure resources are matched to the capabilities there will be many which support learning across multiple areas of the framework.
- 1 - Embedding responsible, safe and ethical practice
- 2 - Working with Aboriginal consumers, families, and communities
- 3 - Working with diverse consumers, families, and communities
- 4 - Understanding and responding to trauma
- 5 - Understanding and responding to mental health crisis and suicide
- 6 - Understanding and responding to substance use and addiction
- 7 - Understanding and responding to family violence
- 8 - Working effectively with families, carers and supporters
- 9 - Delivering holistic and collaborative assessment and care planning
- 10 - Delivering compassionate care, support and treatment
- 11 - Promoting prevention, early intervention and help-seeking
- 12 - Supporting system navigation, partnerships and collaborative care
- 13 - Enabling reflective and supportive ways of working
- 14 - Embedding evidence-informed continuous improvement
- 15 - Working effectively with digital technologies
1 - Embedding responsible, safe and ethical practice
“Embedding responsible, safe and ethical practice,”
“Privacy, Confidentiality and Effective Documentation,”
“Legislation and Human Rights,”
“Building the Therapeutic Relationship,”
“Human Rights and Mental Health,”
“Advocacy in Mental Health”
“Human Rights and Mental Health”
“Mental Health and Wellbeing Principles”
2 - Working with Aboriginal consumers, families, and communities
MHPOD topics include:
"Working with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander consumers, families, supporters and communities"
"Improving the social and emotional wellbeing of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children"
"Using Aboriginal cultural knowledge systems to strengthen families resiliance"
"Honouring Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander voices in healing family violence"
"Social Emotional and Cultural Wellbeing for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples"
"Working with First Nations families and children: A framework for understanding"
"Healing through voice, culture and Country"
- Australian Indigenous Health InfoNet - Courses
- Australian Institute of Health and Welfare – Indigenous Mental Health Suicide Prevention: Social & Emotional Wellbeing
- Emerging Minds – Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander social and emotional wellbeing
- MHCC – Mental Health Coordinating Council – Working with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People in Mental Health
- VACCHO – Victorian Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisation
- Wellmob – Training Resources
3 - Working with diverse consumers, families, and communities
“Diversity and Cultural Awareness”
“Culturally Safe, Trauma-aware and Healing-informed Practice”
“Working with Diverse Consumers, Families and Communities”
“Mental Health and Transgender and Gender Diverse People”
“Neurodiversity and Mental Health”
General Resources
- Centre for Culture, Equity & Health – Resource Hub
- Drummond Street Services – Mental Health in the Margins: Intersectional Toolkit for Practitioners and Service Providers
- Mindful – Mental Health Training
- VTMH – Victorian Transcultural Mental Health – Training, Resources, Podcasts.
Multicultural Resources
- Centre for Culture, Equity & Health – Cultural Competence Reflection Tool
- Embrace Multicultural Mental Health
- Foundation House – working with people from refugee backgrounds
- Victorian Refugee Health Network - Diverse Communities Mental Health and Wellbeing
Disability Resources
- VDDS - Victorian Dual Disability Service
- Hidden Disabilities
- Women with Disabilities Victoria – Events and Workshops
LGBTIQA+ Resources
- Department of Health – LGBTIQA+ Inclusive Practice Resources
- Health Direct – LGBTIQA+ Mental Health
- LGBTIQ+ Health Australia
- Switchboard
- Thorne Harbour Health
- VACCHO – Rainbow Mob
4 - Understanding and responding to trauma
"Understanding and Responding to Trauma"
"Trauma and Mental Health"
"Culturally Safe, Trauma-Aware and Healing-Informed Practice"
"The Impact of Trauma on the Child"
- Blueknot – Empowering Recovery from Complex Trauma
- Foundation House – Trauma informed learning working with people from refugee backgrounds
- Elevate – Introduction to Trauma Informed Care – E-Learning
- MHCC – Mental Health Coordinating Council – Trauma-Informed Language Tips
- MHPN – Mental Health Professionals Network – Webinar Library – Topic: Trauma
- National BPD Training Strategy
- Phoenix Australia – Enhancing Trauma Informed Practice in Victoria’s Mental Health and Wellbeing Services
- Spectrum – Education and Training Calendar
5 - Understanding and responding to mental health crisis and suicide
“Suicide Prevention and Response in Healthcare Settings”
“Working With People Who Are Experiencing Suicidal Ideation or Behaviours”
“Understanding and Responding to Mental Health Crisis and Suicide”
- Centre for Research Excellence in Suicide Prevention
- Life in Mind – Training Directory
- LivingWorks ASIST Training
- National Suicide Prevention Office
- Roses in the Ocean – Resource Hub
- Suicide Prevention Australia – National Training Directory
6 - Understanding and responding to substance use and addiction
“Understanding and responding to substance use and addiction”
“The Impacts of parental substance use on the child”
- ADF – Alcohol and Drug Foundation
- Elevate
- Hamilton Centre – Events, Training and E-Learning
- Harm Reduction Australia
- Nexus - see ‘resources’
- QUIT
- Turning Point – Education and Training
- VAADA – Victorian Alcohol and Drug Association
7 - Understanding and responding to family violence
“Understanding and Responding to Family Violence”
“The impact of family and domestic violence on the child”
“Honouring Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander voices in healing family violence”
- DV-alert – Domestic Violence Response Training
- LGBTQ – Domestic Violence Awareness Foundation – See, Hear, Believe Training
- NIFVS – Northern Integrated Family Violence Services
- No to Violence
- Safe + Equal – MARAM Training
- The Orange Door – Services for those experiencing or using family violence
- Vic Gov – MARAM practice guides and resources
Vic Gov – Information Sharing and MARAM Online Learning
8 - Working effectively with families, carers and supporters
“Working Effectively with Families Carers and Supporters”
“Working with First Nations families and children: A framework for understanding”
“Working with diverse consumers, families and communities”
- Carers Victoria
- Centre for Excellence in Child and Family Welfare
- Department of Health – Working together with families and carers
- Emerging Minds – Learning
- Healthtalk Australia – Mental Health Carers Experiances
- FAPMI – Families Where a Parent has a Mental Illness
IMHA – Information for Families and Carers - Nexus – Carers Can Ask
- PANDA - Perinatal Anxiety & Depression Australia
Tandem – The voice of family, carers and supporters in Mental Health - The Bouverie Centre
9 - Delivering holistic and collaborative assessment and care planning
"Delivering holistic and collaborative assessment and care planning”
“The national framework for recovery-orientated mental health services”
“Social Determinant of Mental Health”
“Psychosocial interventions and supports for recovery”
“Formulation”
“Diagnostic systems and the impact of diagnosis”
“Mental Health Assessment and Mental Status Examination”
There is also a series on NDIS including Understanding the NDIS & NDIS for Mental Health Clinicians
- Agency for Clinical Innovation – Collaborative Care Planning
Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Healthcare - Collaborative Practice Centre
- Blackdog Institute – Resource Hub
- Blackdog Institute – E-Learning - ‘What’s the use of a Formulation?’
- Better Health Channel – Types of mental health issues and illnesses
- Department of Health – Integrated Care Training
- Equally Well
- MHCC – Introduction to Supported Decision-Making
- MHPN – Mental Health Professionals Network
- National Framework for Recovery Orientated Mental Health Services
- Orygen – Training page
- Royal Children's Hospital – Mental State Examination
- Sane – Fact Sheets and Resources
10 - Delivering compassionate care, support and treatment
“Delivering compassionate care, support and treatment”
“Recovery-Orientated Practice”
- Cambridge University – What is Compassion?
- Centre for Clinical Interventions - Self Compassion
- Health Direct – Acts of Kindness and Compassion
- MHCC – Recovery Orientated Language Use
- Mindframe – Our Words matter: Guidelines for language use
- Straight Up – Docu-series about those with lived experience of mental health and substance issues
11 - Promoting prevention, early intervention and help-seeking
“Promoting prevention, early intervention and help-seeking”
“Mental health promotion, illness prevention and early intervention”
“Supporting system navigation, partnerships and collaborative care”
- Better Health Channel – Stigma, discrimination and mental illness
- Beyond Blue – Wellbeing Action Tool
- Department of Health – Early Intervention in Mental Illness
Department of Health – Wellbeing in Victoria
Hamilton Centre – Modules on stigma in mental health and addiction care - Lifeline – Support Toolkit
Prevention United – Mental Health Promotion Competency Framework
Prevention United – Training and Consulting
Sane – Reducing Stigma - WHO – Charter for Health Promotion
12 - Supporting system navigation, partnerships and collaborative care
“Supporting system navigation, partnerships and collaborative care”
- Agency for Clinical Innovation – Collaborative Care Planning
- Better Health Channel – Referrals and Access to Mental Health Services
- Collaborative Practice Centre
Department of Health – About Victoria’s Mental Health Services - Department of Health – Integrated Care Training
- Head to Health Clinics Victoria
- Medicare Mental Health – Service Search
- MHPN – Mental Health Professionals Network
- Victorian Collaborative Centre for Mental Health and Wellbeing – E-Learning Page ‘Orientation to Victoria’s Mental Health System’
13 - Enabling reflective and supportive ways of working
“Reflective practice, professional supervision, self-care and wellbeing”
“Enabling reflective and supportive ways of working”
- Clinical Excellence Commission – Reflective Practice
Clinical Supervision Services – Resources - Department of Health – Victorian Allied Health Clinical Supervision Framework
University of Edinburgh – Reflection Toolkit - Research in Practice – Reflective supervision: resource pack
- Safer Care Victoria – Clinical Supervision Framework for Mental Health Nurses
- Victorian Collaborative Centre for Mental Health and Wellbeing – E Learning - ‘Introduction to clinical supervisions for mental health clinicians’ ‘Introduction to Consumer and Family/Carer Perspective Supervision’
- Victorian Collaborative Centre for Mental Health and Wellbeing – Supervision Database
14 - Embedding evidence-informed continuous improvement
“Embedding evidence-informed continuous improvement”
“Quality, outcomes and evidence-based practice”
- Centre for Evidence and Implementation
- MHPN – Webinar Library
- Victorian Collaborative Centre for Mental Health and Wellbeing – Knowledge Sharing Platform
- Safer Care Victoria – Quality Improvement Training Modules
15 - Working effectively with digital technologies
“Working effectively with digital technologies”
- Blackdog Institute – Digital Tools and Apps
- Blackdog Intitute – E-Mental Health in Practice
- Digital Service Directory
- Department of Health – Virtual Care Strategy
- MHCC – Digital Service Delivery Guide