Let’s Talk: youth mental health, culture and identity
8 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 2 years ago -Produced by Orygen, Australia’s centre of excellence in youth mental health, the “Let’s talk: youth mental health, culture and identity’ podcast is a series of interesting and informative conversations exploring youth mental health and culture, designed particularly for the youth mental health workforce. You can find out more at www.orygen.org.au/letstalk
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Episodes
Teams and systems
November 24, 2021 06:30 - 54 minutes - 49.8 MBIn our final episode, we discuss the importance of policy, and the need to understand how complex and different systems can impact on the mental wellbeing of multicultural young people and families. We discuss joint policy work between Orygen and the Centre for Multicultural Youth and other organisations and learn from our guests’ insights into the mental health system and ways to bring about change. GUESTS: Dave Baker, principal policy advisor at Orygen; Willow Kellock, policy officer...
Trauma
November 04, 2021 06:01 - 1 hour - 57.1 MBThis episode focuses on trauma, the importance of understanding trauma and ways to build safety and responsiveness in our work with young people and communities who have been impacted by trauma. Rudy Gonzales, our first guest, is General Manager Practice and Sector Development at Foundation House, Melbourne. Rudy shares the work he does to ensure a whole service is trauma informed and is experienced as safe and responsive by people attending. Rudy shares the importance of looking at every...
Community
October 28, 2021 06:00 - 1 hour - 57.8 MBOur three guests in this episode are all young people with youth advisory or youth participation roles. We hear from W. Georges, Devika and TJ about their work in different community projects that build connection, trust and knowledge to support multicultural young people with their mental wellbeing. TJ is youth participation program manager at Orygen, working to ensure that young people are actively involved in decision making processes, and projects that feed into outcomes that will ultim...
Intersectionality
October 21, 2021 05:56 - 1 hour - 66.8 MBIn this episode, we discuss intersectionality and how mental health workers and systems can assist vulnerable young people to improve their health outcomes and wellbeing. Our first guest is, Dr Tinashe Dune, is Associate Professor in Inter-Professional Health Sciences at Western Sydney University. Dr Dune shares with us her research in marginalisation and health and a recently published book on cultural practice she co-edited. Also joining us is Anita Ogbeide, who has a master’s degree i...
Core skills for clinicians
October 14, 2021 06:30 - 59 minutes - 54.6 MBIn this episode we hear from two experienced clinicians who share some of what they have learned through their work and some of the key skills for assisting multicultural young people in mental health settings. Tess Jolley is our first guest. Tess is a senior practitioner in the Child, Youth and Family program at Foundation House (Western Region). The Victorian Foundation for Survivors of Torture, Foundation House’s mission is to advance the health, wellbeing and human rights of people ...
Identity
October 07, 2021 06:30 - 33 minutes - 30.7 MBThis episode further explores the importance of identity for multicultural young people, families and communities in the youth mental health space. Our first guest in this episode is Sonya, who is an occupational therapist with over 12 years’ experience in mental health in a broad range of settings including public and private. She has worked with young people and adults individually, in groups, and has experience in training. Currently Sonya works at Orygen as a Community Development Clin...
How do culture and youth mental health interact?
September 30, 2021 04:34 - 38 minutes - 34.9 MBIn our first episode, we begin to explore some large ideas. What is culture? And how do culture, mental health and identity intersect? Our first guest is Wardandi Noongar man Oliver Tye, who is the First Nations Statement of Commitment Coordinator at Orygen. Oliver shares the different ways of seeing culture, mental health and identity of First Nations young people, and the importance of understanding the impact of colonisation. He also discusses some of the most important changes we can m...
Welcome to Let's Talk: youth mental health, culture and identity
September 30, 2021 04:30 - 5 minutes - 4.91 MBProduced by Orygen, Australia’s centre of excellence in youth mental health, the “Let’s talk: youth mental health, culture and identity" podcast is a series of interesting and informative conversations exploring youth mental health and culture, designed particularly for the youth mental health workforce. You can find out more at www.orygen.org.au/letstalk