Wellbeing Workforce

⁠⁠⁠Parkville Youth Mental Health and Wellbeing services (PYMHWS) was established in July 2025, as Victoria’s first dedicated youth public mental health service.

PYMHWS operates the Parkville Youth Prevention and Recovery Centre (YPARC) located at 35 Poplar Rd Parkville Victoria, it is a voluntary, subacute, community bed based mental health and wellbeing service for young people aged 16–25.

PYMHWS seeks to engage with a non-government organisation (NGO) partner to be the service provider under a services agreement for an initial three-year period to:

• Provide the youth wellbeing and lived experience workforce at the 20 bed YPARC.
• Partner with PYMHWS to tailor support and interventions to the recovery needs of each young person based on their clinical and psychosocial presentation.
• Work alongside PYMHWS’s clinical team under PYMHWS’s Clinical Governance Framework.
• Demonstrate alignment with the PYMHWS vision, mission, values and program criteria.
• Achieve a value for money service within the Victorian public health service by using funding appropriately and efficiently.

PYMHWS is inviting responses to this Request for Tender through online submissions via the Buying for Victoria public tender portal.

Please download the tender documents for the details of the tender should you wish to participate. 

Briefings

Parkville YPARC Industry Briefing Q&A Session

A briefing session will be held on 20 March 2026 11:00 am.

Notes: Please register your interest in attending the information session for the Request for Tender 2026-001 - Provision of the youth wellbeing and lived experience workforce at Parkville YPARC.

• Date: Friday 20 March 2026
• Time: 11am – 1pm
• Location: Teams (link to be provided by PYMHWS once registration acknowledged)
• Contact: Andrew Chard E: Andrew.Chard@pymhws.org.au to register your attendance

Registration closes on 19 March 2026 02:00 pm