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Mental Health Rights Manual
An online guide to help explain your legal and human rights in the mental health and human services systems in New South Wales.
Read moreRecovery Oriented Language Guide
Words are important. The language we use and the stories we tell have great significance to all involved.
See the guideA resource to drive organisational change, guide leaders, ensure quality improvement and enhance consumer and carer safety and experience of services.
Following on from our Trauma-Informed Care and Practice Organisational Toolkit, the Trauma-Informed Leadership for Organisational Change: A Framework, is an easy-to-use resource to drive organisational change and a valuable guide for leaders. This resource ensures quality improvement with the ultimate goal of enhancing consumer and carer/supporter safety and experience.
Our vision is that mental health and human services leaders will be supported by a skilled and competent workforce, demonstrating best practice in all service settings.
This resource assumes a thorough knowledge of trauma, an ability to integrate theory into practice and an understanding of the principles that underpin a trauma-informed care and practice approach as fundamental to recovery-orientation in mental health and human services.