The Koorie Men\u2019s Health Day is an innovative mental health delivery model that was trialled in Gippsland.<\/p>\n
The PhD research of Anton Isaacs inspired the development of an innovative model of community-based mental health delivery for Koorie men.\u00a0 Anton\u2019s research highlighted the difficulties faced by Aboriginal men in accessing mental health services and adhering to treatment.\u00a0 The study also demonstrated the difficulties faced by staff in addressing the unique needs of Aboriginal men who need mental health care.\u00a0 As a result, the Koorie Men\u2019s Health Day<\/em> was developed and trialled.<\/p>\n The Koorie Men\u2019s Health Day model was written up in \u201cThe Koorie Men\u2019s Health Day<\/a>: an innovative model for early detection of mental illness among rural Aboriginal men\u201d by Anton Isaacs and Berwyn Lampitt. (DOI: 10.1177\/1039856213502241). This paper describes\u00a0how a mental health clinician, an academic and Aboriginal Elders worked as a team to design and implement an innovative model for early detection of mental illness among Koorie men in Morwell. The model of service is based in the community, overcomes most barriers faced by Koorie men in accessing help for mental health problems, de-stigmatises mental health and services. \u00a0The model appears to be cost efficient, being self-sufficient from beginning to end.<\/p>\n Interest in this model is growing.\u00a0 Two more Koorie Men\u2019s Health Days are planned for March and September in Gippsland with an expression of interest from Echuca.<\/p>\n Anton is a lecturer at the School of Rural Health \u2013 MUDRIH.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Koorie Men\u2019s Health Day is an innovative mental health delivery model that was trialled in Gippsland. The PhD research of Anton Isaacs inspired the development of an innovative model of community-based mental health delivery for Koorie men.\u00a0 Anton\u2019s research highlighted the difficulties faced by Aboriginal men in accessing mental health services and adhering to […]<\/p>\n Read More...<\/a>","protected":false},"author":797,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2085,1521],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.monash.edu\/rural-health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2595"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.monash.edu\/rural-health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.monash.edu\/rural-health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.monash.edu\/rural-health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/797"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.monash.edu\/rural-health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2595"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.monash.edu\/rural-health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2595\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2610,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.monash.edu\/rural-health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2595\/revisions\/2610"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.monash.edu\/rural-health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.monash.edu\/rural-health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.monash.edu\/rural-health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}