Mental Health and Telehealth
Organizations and Professional Events
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Obiter: Information on the fate of this effort after 2001 is hard to obtain... apparently the group was disbanded.

QuIC sought to:

• Provide people with information to assist them in making choices about their care
• Improve the care delivered by Federal providers and purchased on behalf of Federal beneficiaries
• Develop the infrastructure needed to improve the health care system. This infrastructure was to include knowledgeable and empowered workers, well-designed systems of care, and useful information systems

Objective: promote, strengthen and develop the growth of non-government, community-based, recovery-oriented responses to the needs of people with mental illness and psychiatric disability in Queensland.

The QCMHR is a Queensland Health funded research unit. It has a large permanent staff including psychiatrists, medical officers, neuropsychologists, clinical psychologists, social workers, nursing, occupational therapist, scientists and technicians. There are also research staff from various disciplines employed from research grants.

The service provides over-the-phone information, advice and referral to assist in . delivering comprehensive and appropriate mental health services to people of non English speaking background. The service provides advice on assessment, diagnosis, care plans and information on different options for referral and community support.

The service also provides a specialist consultation service that can engage a bilingual/bicultural mental health or allied mental health professional to clarify or confirm assessment or diagnoses, and assist in the development or review of care plans.

QTMHC has an extensive library of books, articles, manuals, videos and audio tapes on a diverse range of transcultural mental health issues. Anyone can use and borrow resources from the library free of charge.

QTMHC develops and provides training on transcultural mental health issues to health workers, community organisations, health professionals in private practice, graduate and under-graduate students.