Enhance your skills and understanding

eLearning courses

• ‘Keeping families and children in mind’ – An introductory course for mental health and allied health professionals. It supports learners to understand the impact of parental mental illness on the entire family and to recognise the benefits of a family-sensitive approach to working with parents experiencing mental illness.
  
• ‘Supporting infants and toddlers of parents with mental illness’ – For adult mental health professionals working with parents of young children where the parent has a mental illness.
• ‘Child Aware practice’ – Covers a range of activities designed to ensure that children of parents with mental illness get appropriate support from services that are working with their parents and carers.
  
• ‘Child Aware supervision’ – For supervisors of front-line staff in adult-focused health and social services, to support staff to develop ‘Child Aware’ practice.

Other resources

• Browse free COPMI materials – Delivery is free within Australia.
• The COPMI resource collection – Comprehensive resources on COPMI-related topics.
• See Gateway to Evidence that Matters (GEMS) research summaries of recent Australian and international research relating to children (aged 0-18 years) of parents with a mental illness, their parents and families.