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15 Jun 2021

Forensicare’s senior consumer consultant recognised in Queen’s Birthday Honours List

Julie Dempsey, Senior Consumer Consultant at the Forensicare has been awarded a Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) in the 2021 Queen’s Birthday Honours List. She was awarded this prestigious honour for her outstanding services to community mental health.Through sustained commitment and advocacy, Julie’s work promoting consumer perspectives and concerns has made significant and lasting improvements to forensic mental health service delivery to ensure client-centred and recovery-focused care. Her work has highlighted to many the difference it can make in consumers lives when they [...]

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07 Jun 2021

Dr Margaret Grigg appointed to Expert Advisory Group to develop new Mental Health and Wellbeing Act

A new Mental Health and Wellbeing Act is being developed to reset the legislative foundations for Victoria’s mental health and wellbeing system.

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17 May 2021

Green light for Thomas Embling Hospital expansion

Find out about the Victorian Government’s announcement to fund the expansion of Thomas Embling Hospital.

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12 May 2021

Celebrating our nurses | International Nurses Day 2021

Celebrated around the world on 12 May each year—the anniversary of Florence Nightingale’s birth—International Nurses Day is an important day to commemorate the vital work of nurses around the globe.Today, on International Nurses Day 2021, we want to recognise, celebrate and thank the incredible nurses across our services.At Forensicare, we have hundreds of nurses who work across our prison services, community services, as well as in Thomas Embling Hospital. Each and every day, their work–like nurses all around the [...]

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22 Mar 2021

Normalising mental health responses to COVID-19 in 2021

Recently, the reflective practice team at Thomas Embling Hospital came together to reflect on our experiences – emotional and otherwise – in response to the continually changing COVID-related health and social landscape.This pandemic has generated, fuelled and intensified a wide range of emotional responses during the past 12 months, and it has continued to do so in the past days and weeks–especially with our recent 5-day lockdown.Although it has become commonplace (perhaps even cliché to say), it [...]

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18 Mar 2021

Closing the Gap at Forensicare

Close the Gap Day is an important day that advocates for health equality for First Nations’ Australians. It is underpinned by the belief that when Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people have a say in the design and delivery of policies, programs and services that affect them – better life outcomes can be achieved.What is Closing the Gap?In 2019 a National Agreement was formed between the Coalition of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peak Organisations and Australian [...]

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09 Mar 2021

Forensicare receives new funding to expand the Community Integration Program

This program will soon be available at Port Phillip Prison.

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04 Mar 2021

Forensicare’s response to the Royal Commission into Victoria’s Mental Health System

Forensicare welcomes the final report delivered by the Royal Commission into Victoria’s Mental Health System.Forensicare CEO, Dr Margaret Grigg said that the 65 recommendations were ambitious and, once implemented, will transform our mental health system for the better.“These recommendations lay the foundation for a system that will better support the recovery of people with mental illness who are at risk of entering, or who have entered the justice system,” Grigg said.“Forensicare treats many of the Victorians that this system has failed. [...]

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04 Mar 2021

Forensicare and Centre for Forensic Behavioural Science Annual Research Report 2019-2020

The Annual Research Report is now available.The Annual Research Report provides a comprehensive review of the Centre for Forensic Behavioural Science (CFBS) and Forensicare’s research activities over the past 12 months.In addition to providing mental health services through inpatient, community-based and prison programs, Forensicare provides research, training and professional education in partnership with the CFBS at Swinburne University of Technology.This report provides details about our research program and the ways in which we are promoting continuous [...]

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12 Feb 2021

COVID-19, Influenza and other transmittable viral illness: Information for visitors to Forensicare

To prevent the spread of COVID-19, we have put in a number of measures for visiting Forensicare’s services.

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