Service Responsiveness to Asian, Refugee and Migrant Populations: Factsheet series

Clinicians, policy makers, service planners and funders may be interested in a series of four factsheets outlining how and why services should be responsive to Asian, refugee and migrant communities.

Published by Te Pou, this series of factsheets is aimed at people advocating for, developing, adapting, contracting, funding or planning mental health or addiction services.

Why deliver responsive services?

This factsheet provides an overview of why services need to be responsive and implications for policy makers, researchers, clinicians, service managers and service funders.

Planning and funding – where to start

This factsheet outlines statistics and service models to inform actions and decisions made at a planning and funding level.

The evidence base

This factsheet provides an overview of the research evidence behind different strategies for making services responsive for Asian, refugee and migrant communities.

Resources

This factsheet includes a list of links related to assessing population needs, working with interpreter services, workforce development, adapting therapeutic interventions, linking with services and communities and providing information for these groups.