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Mental Health Telephone Triage – 1300 792 977
- Available 24 hours, 7 days a week
- Accessible to people of all ages
- Comprehensive and timely telephone assistance
- A review of a persons current mental health
- Provides expert review for all age groups drawing on age related expertise
- Referring the person to the most appropriate assessment and treatment option and/or assist with linkages to external service providers, where appropriate
Mental Health Consultant Liaison (MHCL)
- Provides face-to-face assessment, treatment and planning
- Within the Emergency Department and general hospital
- Provides support, advice and guidance to carers and families
- Following assessment, referrals will be made to the most appropriate treatment options and/or assist with linkages to external service providers, where appropriate
Aged Persons Community Mental Health Program
The service operates extended hours, 7 days a week
Assessment and Intensive Treatment;
- Provides assessment and assertive community short term interventions for people who are experiencing an acute phase of illness
Community Treatment;
- Provides short-medium term treatment, case management and care interventions for people with prolonged mental illness
Aged Acute Inpatient Unit (Ward 1 West)
- A specialist, multidisciplinary team that provides treatment and interventions in a hospital setting that are recovery oriented for voluntary and compulsory patients.
- For people experiencing an acute phase of mental illness until such time that the person can be treated effectively in the most appropriate setting.
Carinya
- A specialist psychogeriatric residential aged care facility
- For aged persons with significant behaviours associated with either severe dementia and/or mental illness
- Provides interim clinical treatment to enable the transfer of aged persons to a generic aged care facility
Access Planning & Suicide Prevention (APSP)
- APSP is a community based support program for people who have presented or who have contacted Peninsula Health Mental Health Service and are deemed at risk of suicide by mental health clinicians.
- Aimed at people that do not require ongoing or immediate specialist mental health provision.
- Support provided up to 90 days.
Peer Workforce
- A Peer Worker is a person who has a lived or is living with a personal experience of mental health issues.
- A Family Carer Peer Worker is a person who is in a caring role or who has previously cared for a person with mental health issues.
Police Ambulance & Clinician Early Response (PACER)
- A collaborative early intervention service between Peninsula Health Mental Health Service, Victoria Police and Ambulance Victoria that respond to high risk community situations.
- For people experiencing a mental health crisis, supporting access from police custody or ambulance care to the appropriate mental health care.