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
Access Planning & Suicide Prevention (APSP)
- Is a community based support program
- For people who, at assessment, are considered to be at risk of suicide by mental health clinicians
- Aimed at people who do not require ongoing or immediate specialist clinical mental health services
- 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.