AICAFMHA:
promoting mental health for young Australians
Australian Infant, Child, Adolescent and Family Mental Health Association Ltd
ABN 87 093 479 022
COPMI Project Update - 21/06/2002
Resource List - Your Help Urgently Required
COPMI Project Team members have been collating a list of resources/tools currently used by people in Australia in their work with families where a parent has a mental illness. You can now view this list online. Please check the list to see if the materials or tools you use in your work in this area are included and advise me as soon as possible of any errors or omissions.
One objective of the National COPMI Initiative is to improve the availability of appropriate resource materials (in line with the good practice principles and guidelines) to children of parents with a mental illness and their families, and to people working with them. We can only achieve this if we are aware of
a) what resources currently exist that are seen to be useful
b) any needs for development of new materials, as expressed through the consultation
process.
So……I would also be interested to learn about " any resource development 'in progress', to assist in avoiding any 'reinvention of wheels' " what new tool/resource you believe should be considered by the National COPMI project as a development area with reason why it should be considered.
Project Links
Some of you may have heard a new project announced at the Holding It All Together Conference in Melbourne for young people living in Victoria who have a parent with a mental illness. The overall goal of the new project is to 'implement, evaluate and document a model of best practice which supports young people aged 13-18 years who have a parent with a mental illness'. Funding for the project has been provided by the Victorian Health Promotion Foundation, the Mental Health Branch of the Victorian Department of Human Services and the BeyondBlue National Depression Initiative and tender applications closed on the 7th June. The national COPMI project is involved in the assessment of tenders and hopes to maintain strong links with this and any similar endeavours in other states.
Youth 'Champions'
Do you run or participate in a program with young people who have a parent with a mental illness? If so, I'd be interested to talk with you about how you may be able to assist the COPMI project in gaining input and feedback from young people about what they believe should be in the Policy and Guidelines document and what material resources they believe should be developed by the project. Please give me a call to discuss how I or another project team member may be able to support you in gaining information from and communicating with young people about the project. We'd be delighted to make you one of our youth 'champions' and may be able to negotiate supports such as paying for pizzas or transport to encourage the youth voice from a range of states, territories and locations to be heard in this project.
Elizabeth Fudge
Project Manager,
COPMI Initiative
Ph (08) 8161 6859
Fax (08) 81616983
fudgee@wch.sa.gov.au
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