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The aims of the MAP training were to:
- enhance awareness and understanding of depression
and related disorders
- improve attitudes towards the importance of effective
treatment, early intervention, prevention and mental
health promotion programs; and
- develop skills in the identification and engagement
of individuals and groups who could benefit from intervention.
Training was delivered in close collaboration with Primary
Mental Health and Early Intervention Teams (PMH&EITs)
and other local providers and at the geographic level
of Primary Care Partnerships.
Training Target Groups
Workers targeted in this Training Program included those
working in the following types of services:
- Accommodation services (eg SAAP)
- Aged Care Assessment
- Centres Against Sexual Assault
- Child Protection Services
- Community Health Services
- Dental Health
- Disability Services
- Division of General Practice staff
- Domestic / Family Violence services
- Drug and Alcohol Services
- Employment assistance & support services
- Ethno-specific health and welfare services
- General Practice Nurses
- Home and Community Care (HACC) services
- Justice system services
- Koori Health Services
- Maternal and Child Health Services
- Neighbourhood Houses
- Post-Acute Care and General Hospital staff
- Psychiatric Rehabilitation and Disability Support
Services
- Regional Health Promotion Officers
- Royal District Nursing Services
- School Counsellors
- School Nurses
- Sexual Health services
- Women’s Health Services
- Youth services
- Other welfare and social support agencies
For more information contact Zoe
Dam.
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