Evaluation of the Bringing them home and Indigenous mental health programs
1. Introduction
- 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
- Appendix A: Stakeholders consulted
- Appendix B: Literature review
- References
The Office for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health (OATSIH) within the Department of Health and Ageing (DoHA) commissioned Urbis Keys Young to conduct a comprehensive evaluation of the Bringing Them Home (BTH) and Indigenous Mental Health Programs. The evaluation covers four programs: the Link-Up Program, the BTH Program, the Social and Emotional Wellbeing (SEWB) Regional Centre (RC) Program, and the Mental Health Program.
OATSIH's role is to support the achievement of sustainable gains in health status for Aboriginal people by improving access to effective primary health care, substance use services and population health programs. Towards this end, OATSIH provides funding for Indigenous-specific community controlled health and substance use services, and works to improve Aboriginal people’s access to and use of mainstream health programs and services. In doing so, OATSIH works in collaboration with Indigenous specific health services, the National Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisation and its State/Territory Affiliates, other Australian Government portfolios and State and Territory government health departments.
The Government's greater emphasis on harnessing mainstream programs to deliver better outcomes for Indigenous Australians makes the mainstream programs delivered by other Divisions of DoHA an integral part of the Department’s contribution to the Government’s whole of government agenda to overcoming Aboriginal disadvantage.
1.1 Background to the BTH and Indigenous Mental Health Programs
1.2 The BTH and Indigenous Mental Health Programs
1.3 Terms of reference for the evaluation
1.4 Definitional issues
1.5 Structure of this report