Let’s Talk: youth mental health, culture and identity

In our final episode, we discuss the importance of policy, and the need to understand how complex and different systems can impact on the mental wellbeing of multicultural young people and families. We discuss joint policy work between Orygen and the Centre for Multicultural Youth and other organisations and learn from our guests’ insights into the mental health system and ways to bring about change.

This episode focuses on trauma, the importance of understanding trauma and ways to build safety and responsiveness in our work with young people and communities who have been impacted by trauma.

Our three guests in this episode are all young people with youth advisory or youth participation roles. We hear from W. Georges, Devika and TJ about their work in different community projects that build connection, trust and knowledge to support multicultural young people with their mental wellbeing.

In this episode, we discuss intersectionality and how mental health workers and systems can assist vulnerable young people to improve their health outcomes and wellbeing.

In this episode we hear from two experienced clinicians who share some of what they have learned through their work and some of the key skills for assisting multicultural young people in mental health settings.

This episode further explores the importance of identity for multicultural young people, families and communities in the youth mental health space.

In our first episode, we begin to explore some large ideas. What is culture? And how do culture, mental health and identity intersect?

Produced by Orygen, Australia’s centre of excellence in youth mental health, the “Let’s talk: youth mental health, culture and identity" podcast is a series of interesting and informative conversations exploring youth mental health and culture, designed particularly for the youth mental health workforce.