North-East Hume Mental Health Services

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North East Victoria Mental Health Services is composed of Beechworth Health, Albury-Wodonga Health – Wodonga Campus Mental Health Service and Northeast Health Wangaratta Mental Health Services. Offering the full range of core mental health care, it services a rural population of approximately 120,000 people in the Eastern Hume Region and covers around 23,800 square kilometres. Click this link to see if you are living within our catchment area: http://www.health.vic.gov.au/mentalhealth/services/index.htm

The Families where a Parent has a Mental Illness (FAPMI) Coordinator has been working on programs for families living with parental mental illness in the area since August 2008. The position is based with the Integrated Primary Mental Health Service working from Wangaratta.
It is a Service Development position and does not provide direct clinical care, instead offering:
•     Education of clinical and non-clinical mental health staff & other relevant disciplines
•     Provision of resources to workers and families, and
•    Other aspects of service enhancement such as policy and procedure development and establishing protocols with network partners and agencies.
 
For information about any of these areas, please contact:
David Watkins
Integrated Primary Mental Health Service
76 Ovens St, Wangaratta 3677
Tel. 5722 2677
Mob. 0417 338 529