This resource supports the development of collaborative cultures in NSW mental health units. It provides principles, strategies, practical examples and resources to strengthen therapeutic partnerships between clinicians, practitioners, managers and people with lived experience of mental health issues and caring, families and kinship groups.

More than 100 consumer and 500 clinician/practitioner responses were received from the recent Trauma-Informed Care and Practice in Mental Health Services survey. The survey results will now be analysed and inform the next steps, which will include a number of consumer and clinician focus groups, interviews with senior clinicians/managers and site visits to mental health services across the state.