Listed below are examples of training packages, programs and resources that have information available via the link provided. A range of other resources can be found on the COPMI website by following the links at the end of this page.
Being Seen and Heard, Royal College of Psychiatrists UK
This training package provides practical and creative suggestions about working with children and parents.
Children of Parents with Mental Illness Project, Carol Clark, Ruah Community Services, WA.
Three competency-based modules intended for participants from a range of agencies, particularly the Department of Community Development, mental health, education and population/community health.
Crossing Bridges, Adrian Falkov, Kate Mayes, and Marie Diggins, (1999) UK.
Training resource designed to enhance practice and improve services for families in which mentally ill adults live together with dependent children. This is currently being adapted as Crossing Bridges Downunder.
Families in Mind, Government of South Australia
Pilot workforce development program regarding children and families affected by parental mental illness within South Australia.
Getting There Together, Eastern Health mental Health Program
This is a professional development package for working with families where a parent has a mental illness. It includes consumers and carers as co-presenters.
Hidden Children: Hard Words
Hard Words was re-edited by the Victorian Department of Human Services Mental Health Branch in 2000. This is an animated version of children’s experiences of living with a patient who has a mental illness. This video is very useful for workforce training and for working with families where a parent has a mental illness. This video is distributed by ARAFEMI, and can be ordered at www.arafemi.org.au/video.asp.
Kids in Mind Tasmania, Julia Fassina and Tracey Bullen, Department of Mental Health
A suite of initiatives focused on improving the services and supports available to children of parents with mental illness.
Promoting positive mental health in families, Ruth Phelan, Central Coast MHS
A spiral bound resource booklet of reproducible fact sheets designed to support workers and families around issues to do with parenting and mental illness.
SKIPS, Eastern Access Community Health
Supporting Kids in Primary Schools – the program consists of workshops for school staff and children in Grades 5 and 6.
Supporting families with parental mental illness, British Columbia Schizophrenia Society, 2002
This manual contains all the information needed to hold a workshop that will inform audiences about the issues involved in supporting families with parental mental illness.
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