Promoting the mental health and wellbeing of new arrival communities : learnings and promising practices
- Bib ID:
- 3546694
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- Description:
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- Carlton South, Vic. : Victorian Health Promotion Foundation, 2003
- 156 p. : ill. ; 30 cm.
- Summary:
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New arrivals and service providers talk about supporting new comers to build healthy lives in Australia. The video shows some practical ways to promote mental health and wellbeing through settings that newcomers make contact with each day such as schools, community groups, sporting clubs and workplaces. It is suitable for use as an education, training and awareness raising resource. The video draws on projects supported thhrough VicHealth's Mental Health Promotion Plan 1999-2002.
- Full contents:
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- Machine derived contents note: SECTION 1
- Overview
- Introduction
- Summary of general key learnings 10
- Priority areas for action
- The need to shift organisational focus
- Summary of specific key learnings 12
- Building capacity to implement and sustain mental health promotion 14
- Enhancing access to the resources required for mental health 16
- Good practices for mental health promotion projects in new arrival communities 7
- SECTION 2
- 19
- Why invest in the promotion of menta health and welbeing? 2
- A conceptual framework for the promotion of mental health and wellbeing 20
- Defining mental health
- 22
- Mental health promotion: VicHealth's approach
- Determinants of mental health and priority themes for action 23
- Health promotion action
- 25
- Target population groups2
- Settings for action 25
- Anticipated outcomes 26
- 26
- SECTION 327
- Why invest in new arrival communities? 2
- A targeted approach 2
- 29
- Factors effecting the mental health of new arrivals in Australia 32
- SECTION 4
- 39
- The new arrivals projects for mental health promotion
- The new arrivals projects 39
- Evaluating the investment 40
- 42
- Case studies
- SECTION A
- The Country Welcome Project: Developing organisational capacity for mental health promotion 45
- SECTION B
- The CONNECT Project: Promoting mental health and wellbeing among young people through school settings 51
- SECTION C
- The Community Guides Project: Building community capacity to promote mental health 59
- SECTION D
- The United Wood Cooperative: Turning the great aussie tool shed into a multicultural health promoting enterprise 63
- SECTION E
- The African Employment Development Program: Developing gender sensitive pathways to economic participation 69
- SECTION F
- The Community Participation, Pathways to Health. Wealth and Success Project:
- A local partnership in mental health promotion 75
- SECTION G
- The Changing Cultures Project: A direct service pilot as a vehicle for mental health promotion 81
- SECTION H
- The Multicultural Sports Project: Advocating for legislative change to enhance social connection
- and reduce discrimination in sporting environments 87
- SECTION I
- The Health Access Pathways Project: Building health promoting pathways 95
- SECTION J
- The Rainbow Program for Children in Refugee Families: Building mental health capacity through
- workforce development 99
- SECTION K
- Off to a Healthy Start: Building a knowledge and resource base for a healthy start for refugee young people 105
- SECTION 5 111
- Drawing on the Collective Experience of the Projects Key learnings and promising practices 111
- Building capacity to implement and sustain mental health promotion 112
- Enhancing access to the resources required for mental health 124
- Good practices for mental health promotion projects in new arrival communities 140.
- Notes:
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- 'Victorian Health Promotion Foundation. Mental Health Promotion Plan 1999-2002'.
- Bibliography: p. 152-156.
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- Victorian Health Promotion Foundation
- Also Titled:
- Promoting the mental health and wellbeing of new arrival communities
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