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Townsville Adult Mental Health Centre
Tender ID: 456653
Tender Details
Organisation:
Tender #:
PRE610
Status:
Closed
Publish Date:
14 May 2021
Closing Date:
11 June 2021
Tender Description
The Federal Government is funding the establishment and trial of eight adult community mental health centres across Australia, with one to be established in each state and territory. The Centre must be co-designed to offer a localised, flexible approach to meet cultural and other local needs and enable opportunity to use existing services to address key gaps in the system by:
- Providing a highly visible and accessible entry point to services for people experiencing psychological distress, where all feel safe and welcomed;
- Offering assessment to match people to the services they need;
- Providing on the spot support, treatment and advice without prior appointments or out of pocket cost. Every interaction should be with the intention of therapeutic benefit; and
- Offering an episode of care model based on short to medium term multidisciplinary care, aimed at stabilising symptoms for people with moderate to high levels of mental health need, whose needs are not being met through other services.
The service model will need to address the following service elements:
- Respond to people experiencing a crisis or in significant distress, including people at heightened risk of suicide, providing support that may reduce the need for emergency department attendance.
- Provide a central point to connect people to other services in the region, including through offering information and advice about mental health and AOD use, service navigation and warm referral pathways for individuals, and their carers and family.
- Provide in-house assessment, including information and support to access services.
- Provide evidence-based and evidence-informed immediate, and short to medium episodes of care, including utilisation of digital mental health platforms.
The service model must not replicate or duplicate any pre-existing services within the local community.
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