| About NEVIL
The North East Victoria Innovative
Learning, Training and Professional Development Cluster (NEVIL) is a Victorian Department of Human Services funded initiative to improve the delivery of mental health services in the
eastern metropolitan suburbs and northeast regional Victoria. It does this by providing
mental health staff and consumer and carer consultants with ongoing
professional development education and training.
Mission
To provide
Victorian mental health clinicians with evidence based, world’s best
practice knowledge and skills in the diagnosis, assessment,
treatment, rehabilitation and recovery care of people with mental
illness.
Who
comprises NEVIL
NEVIL commenced in 2004 and comprises six organisations
that provide public mental health services. These agencies are:
• Austin Health
• Eastern Health
• Forensicare
• St Vincent’s Health
• Goulburn Valley Health
• Northeast Health Wangaratta
Links to these agencies can be found
on our Links page.
NEVIL is auspiced by St. Vincent's
Mental Health Service. It's Management Committee comprises representatives from each of the participating agencies
and consumer and carer consultants.
What NEVIL does
NEVIL conducts mental health
professional development training. Activities comprise events
initiated at the Management Committee level and always available to
all staff throughout the cluster; and events organised and conducted
by a cluster agency, primarily for its staff but with invitations
for other agency staff to attend. All training is provided by experts in their respective fields.
Activities are conducted in both metropolitan and rural regions to
cater for the large geographic area the cluster covers.
Training Activities
Please visit our Training Calendar to view the full range of education and training activities currently programmed for the NEVIL Centre. The Calendar is updated frequently, so if you have an interest in an activity that is not currently programmed, please check the site regularly. Also, contact the Project Officer and register your expression of interest.
As indicated above, education and training activities are normally only available to employees of those agencies involved in NEVIL. Other participants may attend on request. A generic Registration Form for all NEVIL activities is available from this site.
Click here to take you to the Registration Form.
Training activities normally comprise face to face
presentations. Alternative mechanisms for training delivery,
including on-line training, are being investigated.
We look forward to your participation and contribution in 2007.
Click here for information on the NEVIL Graduate Training
Program.
For further information, please contact Greg Coman, NEVIL Project Officer on 03 9288 3186 or 0400
863 976.
NEVIL management committee: To access
secure documents click here
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