There is a need to develop a comprehensive and coherent mental
health research agenda to guide the development of policy and practice relevant mental health research for children, young people and adult of refugee background.
Universal Stories of Healing from Depression is an audio-visual resource which has been developed to raise awareness of depression in refugee communities.
This document suggests how practitioners can contribute to improving the accessibility, quality and effectiveness of services for this population, based on what young people who were refugees said about their experiences of using Australian mental health services.
This website brings together information and resources to assist service providers to better understand and meet the mental health needs of refugees from Syria and Iraq.
In 2016 HealthWest received a small grant to enhance the work of the public mental health service system in the western metropolitan area of Melbourne in responding to refugees and asylum seekers who have a mental illness, or who are at risk of experiencing an episode of acute mental illness.