West Australian Transcultural Mental Health Centre

A statewide service to meet the mental health needs of people from culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) background.

Who it's for Contact details Getting there

WATMHC program includes:

mental health assessment, management and treatment of people from CALD background

design and delivery of mental health promotion and prevention initiatives

direct clinical service delivery

education and training on transcultural mental health issues

service development

collabroative research initiatives, consultancy service

Conference presentations for the 2nd WA Transcultural Mental Health Conference 2006 can be found at: http://www.broadeninghorizon.health.wa.gov.au/presenters/index.cfm

Who it's for

Agency type:
Transcultural Mental Health Centre

Topic Area:
General Mental Health

Available languages:
English, Croatian, Italian, Serbian

Age coverage:
Adults

Geographical coverage:
State/Territory

Available in states:
WA

Local areas or regions:

Referral requirements/eligibility:
Migrants and/or refugees from culturally lingistically diverse backgrounds, age 18-65, requiring psychiatry or clinical psychology services for mental disorders. Detailed referral letter required also specifying whether interpreter service will be required. The Centre is unable to offer crisis intervention.

Contact details

Address:
74 Murray Street
Perth WA 6000

Phone:
08 9224 1760

Email:

Valza.Thomas at health.wa.gov.au

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

Web address:
http://www.mmha.org.au/watmhc/

How to get there

Public transport:
Bus, Train

Transport access details:

Disability access:

Service hours:
8:30am - 4:30pm (Monday - Friday)

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