As one: our ways of working (As one) focuses on the interface between Child Protection and Infant, Child, Youth Area Mental Health and Wellbeing Services (ICYAMHWS).
As one is a partnership between the department and the Department of Health.
The As one information pack provides additional resources for Child Protection and infant, child and youth area mental health and wellbeing services.
The pack includes the following appendices:
- Appendix 1: Whole of Victoria – Department of Families, Fairness and Housing divisions, areas and local government authority areas
- Appendix 2: Information sharing
- Information Sharing Provisions
- Section 192 of Children Youth and Families Act
- Mental Health and Wellbeing Act 2022
- Appendix 3: MHWA principles
- Decision-making principles for treatment and interventions
- Appendix 4: Office of the Chief Psychiatrist Statewide Complex Needs Team terms of reference
- Appendix 5: Child Protection language
- Appendix 6: Legal orders
- Protection orders
- Protection orders applicable to out-of-home care
- Appendix 7: Compulsory assessment and treatment
- Appendix 8: Non-legal mental health advocacy service
- Appendix 9: Mental Health Tribunal
- Appendix 10: Mental health terms and definitions
As one: Our way of working information pack
This document provides guidance to mental health services on implementing priority service access for infants, children and young people who are placed in out-of-home care.
Chief psychiatrist's guideline: Priority access for out-of-home care.