SUMHNet Project Listing
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SUMHNet Project Listing |
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Dual Disorder Projects, Victoria. |
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Information on this page is supplied by the Substance Use Mental Health Network (SUMHNet, Victoria) |
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Projects, December 1999 |
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Service |
Description |
Aims |
Target |
Notes |
| Ballarat Uniting Church Outreach Centre | New project funded for 4 years under the National Drug Strategy. | To provide case management & consultancy | People with substance abuse problems combined with any forms of psychiatric disability, particularly those people not engaged with other psychiatric facilities | A novel initiative for a welfare agency. Twenty two clients already & are facilitating a social group. Worker has a psych. and youth AOD background |
| VICSERV | Funded to develop a curriculum and deliver a dual diagnosis training package | Psychiatric disability support workers, state wide | Project workers position to be advertised in the coming weeks | |
| Barwon Psychiatric Resources Council | Attending dual diagnosis education sessions | |||
| Trinity Disability Support Program, Wangaratta | Intensive home based outreach program | Catering largely for dual diagnosis clients | Funding in place and position advertised | |
| Dual Diagnosis Resource Centre, Dandenong Hospital | Immediate tasks include facilitating a reference group, conducting a training needs analysis and implementing evaluative mechanisms | Immediate project aim is to skill up clinicians | Steve Goldsmith recently recruited | |
| Bendigo Project | Collaborative project between St Lukes Family Care, Community Health & Bendigo Health Care Division of Psychiatry. Has developed out of the recommendations of their Managed Care Project including implementing a linkage model | SAMH’s workers to be trained up and to meet regularly for peer supervision & to develop protocols. | Identified Substance Abuse Mental Health (SAMH) workers in each service. | Have funded a project worker for 6 months (1/2 way through). Project
worker providing training and secondary consultation as well as serving
as an effective bridge between agencies as he is located at each
facility two days a week.
Are formulating a proposal for the coming year. |
| The Catch 22 Dual Diagnosis Project | New project auspiced by the Outer & Central East Area Mental Health Services and funded by the Dept. of Human Services | Conceived to identify the service gaps that occur and to develop strategies to bridge those gaps | Consumers with a dual diagnosis | the project is scheduled to run until April 2001.
For more details of this project consult the website |
| Southwest Health Services, Warrnambool | The outreach withdrawal service has obtained Turning The Tide funds to provide case management and dual diagnosis education | |||
| Broadmeadows Community Mental Health | Year long project now completed | Have plans to provide dual diagnosis education but need to attract funding | consumers at Finchly disability support | Robyn Jackson retains the dual diagnosis portfolio |
| Community Psychiatry, Wangaratta | Focus has been on case management for last two months. Organising a Dual Diagnosis Carers Night this month. Planning dual diagnosis groups for consumers | Ongoing reciprocal placements of AOD and MH workers. | Both Community Psychiatry and CHAODS have hosted joint training events in the past month | |
| Peninsula Community Mental Health Service | Have employed a Drug & Alcohol Support Worker since March | To enhance the service’s effectiveness | People with coexisting problematic substance use & major mental illness | The worker, Noemi Fiala, is employed in an ongoing capacity as a Continuing Care worker and is utilising strategies of providing consultation and facilitating education |
Grants. |
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Discussion around and mapping of funding for current Victorian projects. |
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| PROJECT | FUNDING SOURCE |
AMOUNT |
| Warrnambool | Turning the Tide | $24k non-recurrent |
| Ballarat | National Illicit Drug Strategy | $241k over 4 years |
| Broadmeadows | Innovative Practice Development Grant | $50k over one year. (completed project) |
| Bendigo | Innovative Practice
Development Grant
DHS |
$25k
$30k |
| Trinity, Wangaratta- Intensive home based outreach project | DHS | $80k over 12 months |
| Outer & Central East Mental Health Services | DHS | $200k over 2 years |
| Peninsula | Service funded | 1 e.f.t. |
| Vicserv | Turning the Tide / Mental Health Branch | |
| SUMITT | ??Western Consortium | $???? |
| Wangaratta Community Psychiatry | Quality Bonus
DHS discretionary funds |
$49k for year to 11/ 99
$30k to 6/2000 |
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