AIPA has developed a two-day Cultural Competence workshop for the non-Indigenous mental health workforce
To register your interest in attending future workshops please email our Project Officer at: KerrieAKelly@bigpond.com.
Workshop aim
AIPA's cultural competence workshop aims to provide mental health practitioners with the cultural competence (skills, knowledge and attitudes) required to apply the National Practice Standards for the Mental Health Workforce within a social & emotional wellbeing framework when working with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.
The workshop has been developed for non-Indigenous psychiatrists, psychologists, mental health nurses, social workers, and mental health trained occupational therapists.
Equity requires that services are accessible and that the standard and quality of mental health services is the same for all, regardless of class, position, race, disability, age or gender. An important step to achieving this and to closing the gap in social and emotional wellbeing and mental health outcomes is to increase the cultural competence among non-Indigenous mental health service providers.
In the future, AIPA also aims to increase the Indigenous content in psychology courses in universities.