Mental Health Literacy Development

The Health literacy development program, developed with the Mental Health Commission of New South Wales, offers digital resources to help organisations improve mental health literacy responsiveness.

Mental health literacy responsiveness is the provision of services, programs, information and support in ways that promote equal access and engagement for all members of the community. Mental health literacy responsive organisations and services are those that meet the many and varied mental health literacy strengths, needs and preferences of all people; and support individuals with lived experience, their families and kinship groups, and wider communities to make decisions regarding their health and wellbeing. 

Source: blog.f1000.com

The resources are available to any health and social care organisation that is providing services to members of the community, including.

• Primary Health Networks
• Community manage organisations
• Local Health Districts
• Other care workers, health administrators, academics and community members

The resources are designed to be used together or individually as part of educational programs or by services as part of quality improvement activities. They are inter-related so you can select and match resources depending on your needs.

Go through each tab and explore. I don't find the site at all intuitive nor do the tab / section names really explain what they are. There are some moving video stories and well as downloadable resources and fact sheets. Special mention goes to the "Let's learn from research" section. These stories can be used to generate ideas for quality improvement activities.

The "Take actions to respond to communities" section shows 11 action areas, while the "Resources for action" section provides the tools you need to get the action started. Resources include complete toolkits for training and refreshers for staff involved at every stage of a person's journey; facilitator guides to run workshops complete with training videos and slides.

Check out these resources today!