welcome

Firstly, thank you for being patient with us as we work toward putting together this collective. Your honesty, strength, and passion have been a source of comfort and motivation for us, as we try to figure out the best way to bring this collective for multicultural mental health advocates and professionals together (and especially so in these unprecedented times). 

Following the last Think Tank, we just wanted to take a moment to summarise our journey in the last couple of years – to provide a snapshot of where we came from and (hopefully) where we might be going. 

This Think Tank, this collective – this family – came together because of a need for better support and capacity building for culturally diverse mental health advocates and practitioners. We identified early on that creating a more equitable mental health system with a greater sense and understanding of cultural humility is integral, and something that all of us are working toward in different ways. Being able to come together to understand what part of the system we might form, allows us to work collectively (whilst specifically addressing silos – the opposite of Solis!) – toward a more culturally responsive mental health system. 

So before anything else, we want to thank each and every one of you for the light and love you have brought to every conversation, meeting, and email – it is acknowledged and something that we don’t take lightly in a world that already has enough work cut out for us. 

Our working document for a white paper ‘Multicultural Mental Health – Why it matters’, which will be accessible for all collective members to draw from when needed.