Increasing the knowledge and skills of mental health staff. Which Supports Access This requires the provision of information about mental illness and how to access services, in ways that are relevant and accessible to NESB groups. Strategies focus on planning and coordinating community education activities specific to the needs of NESB groups. This requires mental health services to address the needs of people from NESB when monitoring and evaluating their services. Strategies focus on methods of evaluation and ways to involve NESB representatives in the evaluation process.
Strategies identify resources and innovative approaches to enhancing research activities.
These are organisational subdivisions of public mental health services which are responsible for providing an integrated network of services that meet the needs of communities in their geographically defined catchment areas. There are two or more AMHS within each of Victoria's nine Department of Human Services' regions. Ethnic This term derives from the Greek noun 'ethnos', meaning nation or people, and it still retains its basic meaning. Mainstreaming Mainstreaming is a process whereby management of public mental health services has moved from the Department of Human Services to general health services. In most cases public mental health services are now collocated and managed by general hospitals.