ECCV is grateful for this opportunity to provide comment to the Victorian Government’s Royal Commission into Victoria’s Mental Health System.
The views presented in this submission are based upon policy analysis, previous ECCV submissions and reports, and consultations with Victorian ethnic and multicultural organisations, peak bodies, community members, government and service providers over the last five years.
ECCV congratulates the Victorian Government on establishing this Royal Commission, which we hope will lead to the implementation of new strategies to support Victorians with mental illness and further raise public awareness of issues around mental health.
ECCV would like to draw the Government’s attention to the mental health issues that can affect at-risk Victorians, particularly refugees and asylum seekers, and people from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds (especially members of new and emerging communities and people lacking English fluency), as well as older Victorians, members of the LGBTIQ community, and Victorians with disability. We believe that the Commission’s final report must include recommendations about how Victoria’s mental health system can be improved so as to deliver the best mental health outcomes for its diverse population groups.
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