Modifying the Mental Health First Aid Program for the CALD community

Agency details Contact person Target group(s) Partners and funding Timing

While people often know a lot about common physical health problems, there is widespread ignorance of mental health problems. This ignorance adds to stigmatising attitudes and prevents people from seeking help early and seeking the best sort of help. It also prevents people providing appropriate support to colleagues and family members, simply because they do not know how.

Agency details

Organisation name:
ORYGEN Research Centre

Address:

Locked Bag 10
Parkville VIC 3052

Fax:
(03) 9342 3745

Emailaddress:

leannen at unimelb.edu.au

Note: you will need to put the @ symbol in instead of at in the above.

Website:
http://www.mhfa.com.au

Contact person

Name:
Len Kanowski

Position:
Deputy Director, Mental HEalth First Aid. OXYGEN Research Centre, Dept Psychiatry, University of Melbourne

Telephone:
03 9342 3767

Mobile:
0412 909 803

Fax:
03 9342 3745

Email:

len.kanowski at mh.org.au

Note: you will need to put the @ symbol in instead of at in the above.

Target group(s)

Target group:
All adults

Topic area:
General Mental Health

Available languages:
English, Croatian, Greek, Italian, Serbian, Vietnamese

Geographical coverage:
National

Partners and funding)

Project partners:
Australain Government Department of Health & Ageing, Mental Health Branch, ACT Office

Project funding sources:
Commonwealth

Timing

Start date:
Jul 2003

End date:
Jun 2004

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