Download page as PDFThe Office of the Chief Psychiatrist hosts online forums to highlight best practice and facilitate knowledge-sharing between mental health services.
These sessions focused on shared learnings, practice-based evidence and adaptation to changing demands in mental health settings.
Sessions are open to all mental health service staff and are online. Please email communityofpractice@ocp.wa.gov.au to join the distribution list and be notified of future Community of Practice sessions, or for WA Health staff, get updates and join us on SharePoint.
Community of Practice Archive
| Date | Session | Downloads |
|---|---|---|
| 19 May 2026 | Integrating Substance Use Treatment in Mental Health Care | |
| 20 March 2026 | Complex Needs Coordination Team | |
| 12 February 2026 | Better Together: Lived Experience in WA Mental Health Services | |
| 30 October 2025 | Hormones and more – women’s mental health with Dr Kiri Von Klier | |
| 17 September 2025 | CLMI Act 2023 Early Learnings with State Forensic Mental Health Service | |
| 5 August 2025 | Hope in the Courtroom: The Start Court Approach | |
| 16 June 2025 | Physical health and mental illness – the evidence on making an impact | |
| 6 May 2025 | Why a women’s health service – Cockburn Health | |
| 20 March 2025 | How Mimidi Park reduced restrictive practices | |
| 4 March 2025 | AI in mental health | |
| 23 October 2024 | Co-morbid ADHD in community teams with Professor David Coghill | |
| 4 September 2024 | Family and domestic violence – how to assess and what to do next | |
| 18 June 2024 | Yarning about the Cultural Gathering Tool and Aboriginal governance | |
| 16 April 2024 | Care planning – what good looks like | |
| 6 March 2024 | Confidentiality and Information Sharing – Part 2: Guardianship, Responsible Persons, Cultural and Clinical Scenarios | |
| 28 February 2024 | Confidentiality and Information Sharing – Part 1: Legal and Clinical Perspectives | |
| 9 November 2023 | Waalbirnininy Wirran Healing Spirits: Co-designing a culturally secure Child Adolescent Mental Health Service (CAMHS) | |
| 3 August 2023 | Addiction Prevention and Treatment Service at Fiona Stanley | |
| 20 July 2023 | Sexual Assault Resource Centre (SARC): Recent sexual assault disclosures within mental health facilities – Call SARC early | |
| 30 March 2023 | Duty of Care and Restraint in Mental Health and Emergency – legal and clinical perspectives from OCP and Royal Perth Hospital Emergency Department | |
| 2 February 2023 | Developing an Aboriginal culturally secure service: how Aboriginal referrals went up 40% at Geraldton CAMHS | |
| 16 November 2022 | Eating Disorders Part 3: Q&A Session with Shannon Calvert, Lived Experience Advisor & Educator, and Dr Lisa Miller and Fintan O’Looney | |
| 26 October 2022 | Eating Disorders Part 2: Understanding risk in co-occurring needs and complexity – Presentation by Shannon Calvert, Lived Experience Advisor & Educator and Fintan O’Looney | |
| 12 October 2022 | Eating Disorders Part 1: Eating disorders and decision making: legal, clinical and lived-experience perspectives – Presentation by Shannon Calvert, Lived Experience Advisor & Educator, OCP General Counsel and WAEDOCS | |
| 3 August 2022 10 August 2022 |
Working with imminent risk in a non-authorised setting – the legal context with OCP General Counsel | |
| 13 July 2022 | Meeting the needs of ethnoculturally and linguistically diverse communities – Talking with the Multicultural Sub-Network | |
| 30 May 2022 | Wungen Kartup – Overview, accessing us and a cultural approach | |
| 26 May 2022 | Mental Health Act 2014 Q&A | |
| 21 April 2022 | Coping with Staff Shortages in CMHS | |
| 23 March 2022 | Inpatient Care in COVID-19 |