Embrace Multicultural Mental Health

Embrace Multicultural Mental Health (the Embrace Project) is run by Mental Health Australia and provides a national focus on mental health and suicide prevention for people from culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) backgrounds.

We provide a national platform for Australian mental health services and multicultural communities to access resources, services and information in a culturally accessible format.

The key objectives of the project are to:

• Increase participation of consumers and carers from CALD backgrounds in mental health services,

• Improve outcomes for CALD mental health consumers, carers and their families,

• Increase mental health awareness, knowledge and capacity in CALD communities, and

• Improve cultural responsiveness and diversity of the mental health workforce.

Project staff, together with consumers, carers and stakeholders, have further developed the Framework for Mental Health in Multicultural Australia (the Framework). The Framework was developed to help organisations and individuals evaluate their cultural responsiveness and enhance delivery of services for CALD communities.

Other key activities include:

• Promoting and supporting organisations and services across Australia to implement the Framework

• Maintaining and sharing resources through the Embrace Project website

• Communicating and engaging with CALD mental health consumers and carers, CALD communities and the mental health sector

• Project governance and planning