Human Rights from the Top: Mental Health Leadership
Australia's premier course to embed human rights into the governance, design and operation of public mental health services.
A course focused on governance, service design and operations
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1.1 Welcome to Human Rights from the Top
1.2 About me
1.3 How to use this course
2.0 Chapter preview
2.1 What is the point (of the mental health system)?
2.2 'Everything that exists is the result of what has come before' - History and Human Rights
2.3 Key moments in human rights
2.4 Quiz time
2.5 Different faces of human rights
2.6 Quiz time
2.7 Why Human Rights Matter to Public Mental Health Services
2.8 Quiz time
3.0 Chapter preview
3.1 Why all of your work is bound to law
3.2 The Charter of Human Rights and Responsibilities Act 2006
3.3 Quiz time
3.4 The Mental Health and Wellbeing Act 2022
3.5 Properly consider and comply: your core duties
3.6 Specific human rights and principles
3.7 Specific rights and what they mean for your work
3.8 Quiz time
4.0 Chapter preview
4.1 Let's make the law simpler
4.2 The 3 steps for human rights: Forecast, Assess, Decide
4.3 Forecast (how today's decisions impact someone's rights tomorrow)
4.4 Assess (the human rights context and current status)
4.5 Decide (based on human rights, with a public record)
4.6 Practical examples applying human rights
4.7 Quiz time
5.0 Chapter preview
5.1 Governance, service design & operations: human rights holds them together
5.2 Governance and human rights
5.3 Service design and human rights
5.4 Operations, management and human rights
5.5 Quiz time
6.1 Bonus: Practical tools to embed human rights
6.2 Bonus: Strategic litigation opportunities
6.3 Bonus: Applying human rights to statutory bodies and the government
6.4 A final message
This course is for mental health leaders, however you define them, who want to change the governance, design and operation of public mental health services. The course is most helpful in Victoria, Queensland and the ACT, where human rights laws apply to public mental health services.
This course is more focused on staff working within public mental health services. It does not discuss in detail how you can exercise your rights. A free summary video of this course is available here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-rYbM78IqQY&t=1282s
Some strategies can include identifying whether your service will cover this for you and reimburse you. This should be an entitlement for some workers and should be part of professional development budgets. There are also payment plans available that let you space out the payments.