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Hamilton Centre Podcast | Exploring Mental Health & Addiction
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The Hamilton Centre Podcast | Exploring Mental Health & Addiction is for service providers, individuals and family members dealing with co-occurring mental health and substance use conditions. In response to the recommendation of the Royal Commission into Victoria's Mental Health System (2021), the Centre was established to create a more inclusive and supportive system by promoting integrated care in Victoria, Australia. Our podcast will feature interviews with service providers, individuals with lived experience, and workers who assist people with co-occurring conditions. We aim to promote holistic care throughout Victoria by breaking down barriers to treatment and through open minds and op…
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Based on 5 episodes we listened to · July 2026
A grounded Health & Fitness pick on integrated mental health and addiction care, shaped by lived experience, family voices, and workforce conversations.
Hamilton Centre Podcast | Exploring Mental Health & Addiction belongs on the Health & Fitness shelf as a clear, work-level look at integrated mental health and alcohol and other drug care in Victoria.
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You want the room where care policy has to answer to real families.
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- to hear lived-experience workers connect shame, stigma, and recovery to more inclusive care
- family inclusion and confidentiality treated as practical care problems, not paperwork weather
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Best episodes of Hamilton Centre Podcast | Exploring Mental Health & Addiction
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A careful anniversary conversation about stigma, integrated care, and the system around it.
The Hamilton Centre marks its two-year anniversary with a conversation that keeps its attention on integrated care in mental health and addiction services in Victoria.
Lived experience is treated as practical knowledge in mental health and addiction care.
Lived experience is treated here as practical knowledge in mental health and addiction care, not as a badge or a decorative credential. The emphasis stays on how people with lived and living experience can shape workforce culture, policy, service design, and integrated care,…
A grounded conversation about stigma, family strain, and personal definitions of progress in mental health and addiction support.
The episode keeps its focus on lived and living experience, and that gives the discussion a steady weight. It is strongest when stigma is tied to ordinary isolation, with parents trying to speak honestly to friends, family, or colleagues while also resisting the habit of having…
A calm, service-minded case for keeping families in view in care.
Brendan O'Hanlon and Robert Campbell make a steady case that families and caregivers should sit inside the mental health and addiction conversation, not on its margins.
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EP 8 - The role of lived experience in shaping mental health and AOD care
Hidden gemHamilton Centre Podcast episode 8 centers on how Ben Venker and Tharindu Jayadeva use lived experience to shape mental health and alcohol-and-other-drug care in Victoria.
·53m·3 clips - 2
EP 9 - Two years of the Hamilton Centre: Advancing mental health and addiction care
Hamilton Centre marks its two-year anniversary with a conversation about mental health and addiction care in Victoria.
·1h 5m·4 clips - 3
EP 7 – Holistic care for families affected by addiction and mental illness
Hidden gemHamilton Centre Podcast episode 7, “Holistic care for families affected by addiction and mental illness,” brings together Associate Professor Brendan O'Hanlon from the Bouverie Centre and Robert Campbell from SHARC’s Family Drug and Gambling Help.
·44m·3 clips - 4
EP 11 - Youth-focused mental health and AOD care: Lived experience and family voices
Hidden gemHamilton Centre Podcast host Annie Williams speaks with Nathan Avaloz of WISAS and Donna Ortiz of the WISAS Family Reference Group about youth mental health, alcohol and other drug care, and family-inclusive practice in Victoria.
·48m·3 clips - 5
EP 10 - How workforce investment builds stronger, more sustainable systems of integrated care
Hidden gemHamilton Centre Clinical Director Shalini Arunagiri hosts a panel recorded on 11 December 2025 with Professor Dan Lubman, Associate Professor Ravi Bhatt, Ms Maddy Haradance, and Associate Professor Leigh Allen on how workforce investment supports integrated care in Victoria.
·49m·3 clips - 6
EP 6 - Navigating the intersection of mental health and substance use with LGBTIQA+ people
Dec 19, 2024·31m - 7
EP 5 - Supporting AOD and Mental Health Workers in Navigating Complex Cases
Sep 2, 2024·38m - 8
EP 4 - Lived Experience Workers & Human-Centred Practices in Integrated Care
Aug 7, 2024·29m - 9
EP 3 - Inclusive Approaches in Mental Health and Addiction Care
Jul 9, 2024·33m - 10
EP 2 - Building Relationships & Addressing Stigma in Healthcare
Jun 18, 2024·29m - 11
EP 1 - Integrated Care in Mental Health and Addiction | Shalini Arunogiri interviews Dan Lubman and Lisa Jarvie
May 28, 2024·34m