Recent news
1st November, 2024
Legal Tech Helper named Finalist in the 2024 Victorian Premier’s Design Awards
Legal Tech Helper is a Service Design Award Finalist in the 2024 Victorian Premier's Design Awards.
The service design award recognises our digital Pathways to Wellbeing project which provides bilingual, tailored and culturally-appropriate information for Vietnamese Victorians about mental health services, legal and interpreter services to empower help-seeking.
Legal Tech Helper is honoured to be recognised as a finalist amongst the best of Victoria's design industry and design professionals, together with our project partners Australian Vietnamese Women’s Association, Mental Health Legal Centre and CQ University.
Please see the official announcement at premiersdesignawards.vic.gov.au/news/2024-victorian-premiers-design-awards-finalists-announced.
Please see the official announcement at
premiersdesignawards.vic.gov.au/
news/2024-victorian-premiers-design-awards-finalists-announced.
20th October, 2024
Legal Tech Helper on judging panel of Australia’s annual Legal Tech Pitch Night
Legal Tech Helper will be on the judging panel of Australia’s annual Legal Tech Pitch Night hosted by innovative law firm Lander + Rogers on 24 October 2024. The event will feature 10 AI-focused startups from around the world and a judging panel of legal tech and funding experts. As an alumni of the Lander + Roger’s Law Tech Hub, Legal Tech Helper is honoured to be one of this year’s judges.
1st September, 2024
Guide to Safety case study by Victoria Law Foundation
The Victoria Law Foundation published a case study of our 12 month collaboration with Peninsula Community Legal Centre to build the Guide to Safety tool.
The project was made possible by a Victoria Law Foundation community grant.
You can read about the consultation, design and build process in the case study at victorialawfoundation.org.au/grant-projects/pathway-to-safety.
You can read about the consultation, design and build process in the case study article at victorialawfoundation.org.au/grant-projects/pathway-to-safety.
3rd June, 2024
Legal Tech Helper helps workers supporting temporary visa holders experiencing family violence
Legal Tech Helper partnered with Peninsula Community Legal Centre to co-design and build the Guide to Safety online tool.
The Guide to Safety tool helps community workers supporting clients on temporary visas experiencing family violence to safely leave the relationship and get migration assistance for their visa.
Community workers can use the tool to understand the Family Violence provisions in Australia’s Migration Framework.
Guide to Safety was formally launched by the Federal Member for Holt, Cassandra Fernando MP.
Community workers can use the tool to understand the Family Violence provisions in Australia’s Migration Framework.
Guide to Safety was formally launched by the Federal Member for Holt, Cassandra Fernando MP.
1st May, 2024
Legal Tech Helper named Finalist in the 2024 Australian Not-for-Profit Technology Awards
Legal Tech Helper was selected as a finalist for the Technology for Community Impact award at the 2024 Australian Not-for-Profit Technology Awards.
This award recognises a private sector business that has made a highly-valued contribution to the not-for-profit sector and the broader community through the use of technology.
Legal Tech Helper is proud to have our work and partnership with Victoria’s Mental Health Legal Centre over recent years recognised on a national scale.
Our thanks to Infoxchange for their leadership in the not-for-profit sector and in championing these important awards.
22nd March, 2024
Bilingual online tool built by Legal Tech Helper launched by Victoria’s Minister for Mental Health, Ageing and Multicultural Affairs
Trying to find mental health and legal online information can be overwhelming. This is compounded when English is a person's second or third language.
This is why Legal Tech Helper built the bilingual Pathways to Wellbeing in collaboration with Australian Vietnamese Women’s Association (AVWA), Mental Health Legal Centre (MHLC) and CQ University for the Victorian Vietnamese community to:
- find authoritative and trusted information and
- to quickly find the services they need.
Given some people may be recent arrivals, and people often have complex and intersecting needs, the pathways include:
- an overview of how the Victorian mental health system and legal system works, and
- support available for people to engage with services more effectively.
The bilingual Pathways to Wellbeing tool was officially launched by Victoria’s Minister for Mental Health, Ageing and Multicultural Affairs, Minister Ingrid Stitt, at Kensington Town Hall in Victoria. The project was funded by the Victorian Department of Health’s Diverse Communities Grants Program.
12th February, 2024
Legal Tech Helper helps improve mental health literacy in CALD communities
Legal Tech Helper is proud to have co-designed and built a new web application Pathways to Wellbeing in collaboration with Australian Vietnamese Women’s Association (AVWA), Mental Health Legal Centre (MHLC) and CQ University.
Pathways to Wellbeing aims to help improve mental health literacy and positive help-seeking behaviour in the Victorian Vietnamese community. As a cohort, Vietnamese people have a lower-than-average uptake of mental health support. Mental health services, including mental health legal services, need to be inclusive and accessible to all.
Pathways to Wellbeing aims to help improve mental health literacy and positive help-seeking behaviour in the Victorian Vietnamese community. As a cohort, Vietnamese people have a lower-than-average uptake of mental health support. Mental health services, including mental health legal services, need to be inclusive and accessible to all.
This project builds upon Legal Tech Helper’s partnership with Mental Health Legal Centre and CQ University through licensing and adapting relevant legal content from MHLC’s Online Help service, and designing and creating new research-informed content targeted at the Victorian Vietnamese community.
This web application is scalable, replicable, and 100% shareable with other culturally and linguistically diverse communities. The project shows how legal technology can be used and adapted by organisations to scale up and reach more people and help address unmet legal and mental health needs.
1st November, 2023
Legal Tech Help supports people navigating new mental health laws
Legal Tech Helper worked with Victoria’s Mental Health Legal Centre (MHLC) to update MHLC’s Online Help service with new mental health laws.
The new laws in Victoria give people with mental health challenges more choice and power to make decisions about their care and treatment. The new laws also make sure that their families, carers and supporters are involved.
The Online Help service provides targeted information to mental health consumers, their families, friends and carers and referring organisations. New content includes updates to legal rights around treatment and support, and areas of law where MHLC can help.