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Empowering Ethnic Communities

Fostering Inclusive Service Provision through Relationship building.
Action on Disability within Ethnic Communities (ADEC) has recently received funding to undertake a new community development program in transcultural mental health. This is in recognition that previous methods aimed at increasing access to mainstream mental health
services have not been entirely successful. Whilst these methods do have a critical role to play in ensuring culturally competent service provision, research suggests that people from ethnic communities are still not accessing mental health services at the same rate as other Australians.

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Subject: Cultural diversity Mental health

Date published: 29/01/2009