Multicultural mental health resources for health professionals

Our mental health resources and tools for health professionals and GPs support their work with culturally and linguistically diverse clients.

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How we support health professionals

Transcultural Mental Health Centre provides practical resources, tools and guidance that help health professionals and GPs (doctors) to deliver culturally responsive mental health care for clients from multicultural and diverse backgrounds across NSW.

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Clinical consultation service

This is a free service for people from multicultural communities who are linked to and referred by a mental health service in a Local Health District, like a hospital or community mental health services

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Transcultural Mental Health Practice Kit

Health professionals and GPs can find information to help deliver effective mental health care for multicultural and diverse patients.

Transcultural Mental Health Line

The Transcultural Mental Health Line is a telephone service that supports people from multicultural and diverse backgrounds living in NSW.

Call 1800 648 911 for support from 9am to 4:30pm, Monday to Friday.

Learn more about the Transcultural Mental Health Line.

Tools and resources for health professionals

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Cross-cultural mental health assessment tools

Learn about our mental health outcomes and assessment tools to help healthcare professionals provide culturally appropriate care to multicultural clients.

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Community mental health profiles

Find multicultural community and population mental health profiles and information about diverse communities in NSW.

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Education and training

Learn about our education and training programs that help health professionals to understand and respond to the needs of diverse communities in NSW.

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Caring for people with lived experience

Learn about our Carers Support Program, access our multilingual resource library, and read the shared stories of people with lived experience of mental illness. 

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Knowledge Hub

Clinicians can access the latest research and resources relevant to the mental health of culturally and linguistically diverse people in Australia.

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Translated mental health resources

Download a range of mental health guides and factsheets in over 50 community languages.

Acknowledgement of Country

We acknowledge the Traditional Custodians of the lands where we work and the places in which we live. We pay respect to Ancestors and Elders past and present. We recognise the unique cultural and spiritual relationship and celebrate the contributions of First Nations peoples to Australia.

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Acknowledgement of lived experience

The Transcultural Mental Health Centre acknowledges the individual and collective contributions of those with varied lived and living experience(s) and those who love, have loved and care for them.

Contact Transcultural Mental Health Centre

Address: Locked Bag 7118, Parramatta CBD, NSW 2124

General enquiries:(02) 9912 3850Monday to Friday from 8.30am to 5pm
Transcultural Mental Health Line:1800 648 911Mental health support for people from culturally and linguistically diverse communities in NSW. Open Monday to Friday from 9am to 4.30pm
Clinical Consultation Service:(02) 9912 3851Available to public mental health services Monday to Friday from 9am to 4.30pm
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