Peninsula Health

 

16 – 25 years

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

• 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

Youth Prevention & Recovery Care (YPARC)

• • 24 hours, 7 days a week
  • A 10-bed short term recovery focussed residential facility
  • Run in partnership with MIND and Mentis Assist
  • In a residential setting for people experiencing significant mental health conditions that require clinical and/or psychosocial interventions
  • An alternative to hospital admission.

Youth Community Mental Health Program

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

Hospital Outreach Post-Suicidal Engagement (HOPE) Team

• Community based team who work with people aged 18 years and over
• Target group are people who have attempted suicide or been identified as being at risk of suicide at point of referral into the service
• Aimed at people who do NOT require ongoing or immediate, intensive mental health support which would be provided by another community team
• Intervention and support is provided up to 90 days, with referral and linkage to other supports
• Team includes mental health clinicians, access to psychiatry support and carer peer support

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.