Improved Services Training

The Department of Health and Ageing funded eleven services in Queensland under the Improved Services Initiative (ISI) to build the capacity of services to further identify and respond to clients presenting with comorbid substance use and mental illness. 

The following forms a list of training undertaken by Improved Services Initiative grant recipients which they considered valuable to working with people with an alcohol and/or drug problem and mental health comorbidity;

Introduction to mental illness (e.g. Nuts and Bolts of Psychiatry);

• Mental Health First Aid

Suicide awareness and prevention training

• ASIST Training
• ASIST T4T

Psychiatric medications and their management;

• MHPOD
• Psychostimulant information for health workers
• Handling difficult situations
• Non-violent crisis prevention Intervention training
• The No Wrong Door Protocol
• Building Capacity in Non-government Alcohol and Drug Services in Queensland - A tough but Perfect Confluence < Insert link >

The report also includes a list of cultural change resource inventories that provide a comprehensive and integrated set of resources to directly influence organisational change.