The CRRMH developed and implemented a rural arm of the state-wide program to support untrained staff in rural acute care facilities for delivering care to elderly people with dementia syndromes.

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This is a 12 hour course held over two days (four modules of three hours each). The Department of Health and Ageing requested that three Mental Health First Aid training sessions were held for Regional Health Services Staff in rural NSW.

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The Rural Mental Health Critical Care pilot is a model for safely managing people with behavioural disturbances in Emergency Departments, and transporting them to gazetted psychiatric inpatient units during daylight hours, with minimal involvement of the Police.

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Psychological Solutions for Health and Welfare Professionals was a series of short courses that addressed mental health problems commonly encountered in health and welfare settings.

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This project provided rural and remote psychiatrists with an opportunity to identify and discuss issues and situations in case-based workshops with a panel of rural sub-specialists.

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This project involved facilitating two videoconferences for rural and remote psychiatrists that identified models of clinical leadership in the context of farmers' mental health and wellbeing.

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The "TeleWest" initiative provided community members, health workers and service partners, living and working in small rural communities in the West of the state, with quality mental health education and information via video-conferencing technology.

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