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Human Rights from the Top: Transform your mental health service

Building a mental health service without closely embedding human rights is like building a car without brakes.

The comprehensive training package, Human Rights from the Top, offers expert guidance on integrating human rights principles into your organization's governance and culture.

Course content

  • Gain a solid foundation in the concept of human rights and their relevance to modern mental health services.

  • Understand how human rights principles should be incorporated into your organization's governance framework to ensure compliance with legal obligations.

  • Learn practical strategies for embedding human rights into daily operations and decision-making within your organization.

  • Explore the crucial role played by change management in driving a positive culture shift towards a human rights-focused organization.

Content delivered online or in-person. A online comprehensive implementation resource (website) and tools are included.

If you’re in Queensland, check out this free fact-sheet.

Benefits

Improve service quality and safety

People’s experience of care corresponds with their enjoyment of rights. A rights focus can improve how you measure success. SafeWards has taught us by prioritising the human rights of consumers, the safety of all can be enhanced. 

Support elimination of restrictive practices

It will be virtually impossible for services to eliminate seclusion and restraint without undertaking a comprehensive human rights review of their policies, operations and culture. A human rights-based approach gives you the tools to create layers of protection against human rights breaches by preventing them before they occur.

Enhance equity

Marginalised groups often miss out because access points aren't tailored to them. A human rights based approach puts people 'at the margins' to the centre of your service design, governance and evaluation processes.

Demonstrate lived experience leadership

Lived experience leaders are often the strongest human rights advocates. Giving effect to human rights means taking lived experience leadership seriously. 

Support your workforce

Workers have a right to transinclusive, disability-accessible and culturally safe workplace. Bringing human rights front of mind can assist this.

Prevent human rights breaches

Prevent human rights claims before they happen by reducing the risk factors for rights breaches. 

For Boards

Ready to enhance your organisation's commitment to human rights and ensure legal compliance in mental health? Contact me to find out my availability and take the first step towards human rights-based governance?

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Human Rights Advisor

I also provide a limited Human Rights Advisor service to public mental health services looking to improve their compliance with human rights laws.

Bespoke training

I can provide bespoke training to the clinical and lived experience workforce on…

  • Human rights based practice

  • Mental health policy and law

  • Communicating for change

  • Engaging with government and the media.