Evaluation of the Bringing them home and Indigenous mental health programs
11.3.8 Enhancing coordination between Link-Up and BTH services
Table of contents
- Acknowledgements
- Study Team
- Glossary
- Executive Summary
1. Introduction- 2. Methodology
- 3 Overview of the four programs
- 4 Literature review
- 5 Key outcomes and achievements of the programs
- 6 Key limitations of the programs
- 7 Management and administrative issues
- 8. Workforce issues
- 9. Issues related to the four programs
- 10. Likely future demand
11. Conclusions and suggested future directions- 11.1 Key findings of the evaluation against the Terms of Reference
- 11.2 Good practice principles
- 11.3 Recommendations for suggested future directions
- 11.3.1 Ensuring Link-Up and BTH services have a stronger focus on first generation Stolen Generations members
- 11.3.2 Actions to address workforce issues
- 11.3.3 Develop national guidelines for all four programs
- 11.3.4 Extending the geographical reach of the programs
- 11.3.5 Improving the operation of SEWB RCs
- 11.3.6 Encouraging evaluation and good practice activities
- 11.3.7 Provide additional funding for complementary programs
- 11.3.8 Enhancing coordination between Link-Up and BTH services
- 11.3.9 Improve processes for accessing records
- 11.3.10 Research
- Appendix A: Stakeholders consulted
- Appendix B: Literature review
- References
The standard funding contracts for the Link-Up and BTH services could require that:
- Link-up as a matter of course offer new clients the opportunity to be referred to a BTH Counsellor, and where this offer is declined, regularly remind clients of this opportunity
- Where this offer is accepted, Link-Up work closely with the BTH Counsellors to ensure that they are accessed by clients at the most critical times
- All clients attending a reunion should have the option of a BTH Counsellor attending (where the client has been working with a Counsellor before the reunion, this Counsellor should attend the reunion wherever possible)
- Link-Up services report on the number of clients who have been offered referral to a BTH Counsellor, and have taken up this offer; and BTH services report on the number of their clients referred by or using Link-Up services.