Mental Health

• Queensland Program of Assistance to Survivors of Torture and Trauma (QPASTT) 
• Queensland Transcultural Mental Health Centre
• Multicultural Mental Health Coordinators
• Headspace – A free or low-cost youth mental health service for 12–25 year olds

• Refugee & Asylum Seeker Psychiatric Assessment Service at Mater Refugee Complex Care Clinic (MRCCC) (June 2019)
• Culture in Mind – a community-based service that supports the social, emotional and mental well-being of migrants, refugees, and people seeking asylum in the greater Brisbane area.
• Fortify Health Group– a community-based multicultural organisation that provides culturally responsive services to strengthen the mental health and well-being of people from Culturally and Linguistically Diverse (CALD) backgrounds.

• Multicultural Psychological Therapies Services – Intake through World Wellness Group

  Harmony Place at Access Community Services Ltd are funded to provide National Psychosocial Support (NPS) and Continuation of Support (CoS) More information Harmony Place Referral Form

• • Low Intensity Psychological Therapies – Problem management Plus – Culture in Mind – A CALD specific mental health support program.
  • Brisbane North PHN – Brisbane MIND for people with moderate mental illness Brisbane MIND

  NOTE: Contact Brisbane North PHN regarding the availability of free interpreting services for Allied Health Professionals. More information here.

PHN – Mental Health Programs
NOTE: Contact Darling Downs West Moreton PHN regarding the availability of free interpreting services for Allied Health Professionals. More information here.

GCPHN Psychological Services Program

• Understanding the mental health and help-seeking behaviours of refugees – Australian Institute of Family Studies
• Enabling social supports for humanitarian migrants – Australian Institute of Family Studies – Recorded Webinar (Aug, 2022)
• Perceptions of mental health and perceived barriers to mental health help-seeking amongst refugees: A systematic review (Feb, 2020)
• To gain knowledge to further support the mental health of refugees settling in Australia – Greg Turner – Winston Churchill Trust (2017)
• Watch Specialist Clinicians present about Refugee Mental Health (22 mins)
• Refugees and asylum seekers: Supporting recovery from trauma (Trauma and Grief Network)
• Queensland Transcultural Mental Health Centre – New additions posted to website monthly.
• Cultural diversity and assessment: a resource for mental health practitioners (July 2018) – Victorian Transcultural Mental Health. More info here.
• Cross-cultural Mental Health Care: A Resource Kit for GPs and Mental Health Professionals (NSW)
• Refugees advice to physicians about how to ask about mental health 
• Mental Health Literacy of resettled Iraqi refugees in New South Wales: Paving the way for mental health education and promotion in vulnerable communities – University of Western Sydney and Refugee NSW Refugee Health

The Queensland Program of Assistance to Survivors of Torture and Trauma have developed a brochure for community leaders about mental health. Download the English brochure Information for Community Leaders about Mental Health and to download versions written in Tigrinya, Kirundi and Somali see the QPASTT website.

• R U OK? –  resources available in 14 languages (Arabic, Hindi, Panjabi, Dari, Persian, Pashto, Ukrainian and others)
• A Conversation Guide
• ‘How to Ask Tip Sheet’ outlining what you might say during an R U OK? conversation
• ‘4 Steps Poster’ outlining the 4 steps to an R U OK? conversation
• A4 Posters
• EMBRACE Mental Health
• Beyondblue – translated resources including pregnancy and new parents, information for families, general mental health information HERE

• Mental Health Act 2016 – translated by Queensland Health to help patients understand the Mental Health Act 2016.