The Outreach Program provides mental health treatment through individual visits conducted in the home or community. The focus of this therapeutic support is to enable individuals to recover, develop coping strategies and stay well.

 

Community based treatment seeks to minimise the disruption that can occur in a person’s day to day living by reducing the length and frequency of hospital stays or providing treatment at home as an alternative to hospitals. 

 

Outreach clinicians also offer support to carers and family members when client consent has been granted.

 

Outreach services support a number of specialist inpatient and day programs provided by the participating hospitals for example Eating Disorders, Anxiety and Depression, Aged Psychiatry and Mother and Baby treatment. Outreach clinicians are highly skilled health professionals. They may be psychiatric nurses, social workers, occupational therapists or psychologists with significant experience in mental health.

 

The services of an interpreter may be used to assist people from a non-English speaking background.

 
What are the costs?
Private health insurance is recommended. Funding may be provided by other agencies such as Workcover insurers (WC) and the Transport Accident Commission (TAC). Self funded clients are also welcome.