We are aidMH and we aid MH.
We are a for‑purpose collective working alongside diverse communities to support mental and emotional wellbeing, as defined by communities themselves. As a national workforce centre for multicultural mental health, we challenge siloed systems and bring people, resources and knowledge together to help shape systems and services that build cultural humility and are responsive to people’s needs.
Our Solis Network
Join Solis, the professional and peer community arm of AIDMH. Solis is a community of practice dedicated to supporting the work and professional development of multicultural mental health practitioners and advocates
Our Impact
Spotlight on our collaborations. Recent events, trainings, resources and reports we’ve created with our members.
Our Knowledge
The Research and Education arm focuses on gathering empirical research and literature related to multicultural mental health in Australia. Its primary goal is to facilitate the sharing of knowledge and increase accessibility to findings and data.
Meet our Members
We are a Think Tank or over 130 practitioners, advocates, researchers and professionals from many multicultural backgrounds.
Recent news
The report from our community language forum ‘Cultural Diversity – Read the Label!’
Discover community perspectives on the role of cultural labels in mental health and social services.
HeartChat – Find a practitioner who speaks your language
HeartChat is a mental health directory that lists mental health professionals who speak your language and have a similar multicultural background.
Solis Knowledge Library and toolkit. Find inspiration, practical ‘know-how’ or support
The Solis Culture & Mental Health Toolkit (The Toolkit) builds on our initial work in bringing together a directory and collection of resources including organisations, websites, online & in-person services and support resources, Instagram pages, podcasts and research related to living, being, and working in an intersectional and multicultural mental health space.
Dumplings Against Depression
Our annual ‘Dumplings Against Depression’ events are a community-based stigma reduction and awareness campaign geared toward normalising the conversation around mental health.
Australia Needs Better Multicultural Mental Health
Our diverse communities hold deep knowledge, strength and lived expertise that can reshape systems and deliver more effective, culturally responsive outcomes.
Meet The Think Tank and the team behind it
We’re co-chaired by a Lived Expertise leader and a Clinical Neuropsychologist, and made up of members from a range of disciplines, backgrounds and lenses. Together we work to address inherently harmful power structures in our system and offer depth, balance and cultural insight to improve how the mental health system supports diverse communities.
Niharika Hiremath OAM
Board Director & Treasurer Chair – Solis Community of Practice Portfolio
Dr Judy Tang OAM
Founding Director Australians for Intersectionality & Diversity in Mental Health
Meet the team
Meet some of the community giving their time, expertise, and passion to advancing multicultural mental health
- Isabel Zhang
- Karen Leong
- Margherita Coppolino
- Maria Dimopoulos AM
- Marshie Perera Rajakumar
- Narissa Doumani
- Amanda Daluwatta
AIDMH is a Registered Charity Organisation
A donation to AIDMH is a meaningful way to support the mental health and wellbeing of multicultural and intersectional Australians. Funds will go towards providing emotional support and capacity-building programs for diverse mental health Peers and Practitioners and delivering programs and events tailored to diverse communities. From established migrant communities to newly arrived migrants, people from refugee and asylum-seeking backgrounds and a broad range of intersectional perspectives.
Policies
Hours
Flexible
ABN
34716206271
Contact
OFFICE
538A Murray Road
Preston VIC 3072
ABN: 34716206271
VIA EMAIL
connect@aidmh.org.au
VIA PHONE c/o Invictus Health
(03) 9478 1810
