Our First Year - Early Learnings From a Rural Victorian Local Mental Health Wellbeing Service
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Room - Stanley A
| Friday, November 10, 2023 |
| 11:10 AM - 11:40 AM |
Overview
A/Prof Harry Hill and Simon Hallam, Albury Wodonga Health and Michelle Hutton, Wellways Australia
Speaker
Mr Simon Hallam
Dual Diagnosis Nurse
Albury Wodonga Health
Our First Year - Early Learnings From a Rural Victorian Local Mental Health Wellbeing Service
Abstract
‘The flagship reform’ recommended in the 2021 final report of the Royal Commission into Victoria's Mental Health System was the creation new Adult and Older Adult Local Mental Health and Wellbeing Services (LMHWBS) to deliver community‑based mental health and wellbeing services with extended hours of operation. Benalla Wangaratta Mansfield LMHWBS was selected as one of the first 6 of the envisaged 50-60 services and has been operational since February 2023.
Benalla Wangaratta Mansfield LMHWBS is a partnership of Wellways Australia, ACSO and Albury Wodonga Health. The service has 3 intertwined teams – the Building Community Capacity Team’s role is to lead engagement with the local communities to ensure the service meets the needs of those communities. The largest team, Support and Connect, comprised of peer workers and wellbeing navigators, role includes welcoming people into the service and providing a range of peer led and psychosocial supports. The Towards Change team, comprised of mental health and AOD specialist workers, provides clinical interventions using group and 1:1 modalities.
We will identify and reflect on lessons learned, successes and challenges experienced in the first 12 months of this new service model. Key learnings include the importance of co-design and working with the local community to ensure services are fit for purpose; the importance of enhancing social connection of participants; and the need to create home-grown solutions to overcome local challenges, assisting participants work towards self-management.
Benalla Wangaratta Mansfield LMHWBS is a partnership of Wellways Australia, ACSO and Albury Wodonga Health. The service has 3 intertwined teams – the Building Community Capacity Team’s role is to lead engagement with the local communities to ensure the service meets the needs of those communities. The largest team, Support and Connect, comprised of peer workers and wellbeing navigators, role includes welcoming people into the service and providing a range of peer led and psychosocial supports. The Towards Change team, comprised of mental health and AOD specialist workers, provides clinical interventions using group and 1:1 modalities.
We will identify and reflect on lessons learned, successes and challenges experienced in the first 12 months of this new service model. Key learnings include the importance of co-design and working with the local community to ensure services are fit for purpose; the importance of enhancing social connection of participants; and the need to create home-grown solutions to overcome local challenges, assisting participants work towards self-management.
Biography
Simon Hallam is the dual diagnosis lead nurse in the Towards Change (Clinical) arm of the Benalla Wangaratta Mansfield LMHWBS. Simon has a depth of diverse experience including in the UK Naval mental health services and his particular interests include working with people with a diagnosis of Borderline Personality Disorder , trauma informed services and CBT.
A/Prof Harry Hill
Clinical Director
Albury Wodonga Health
Our First Year - Early Learnings From a Rural Victorian Local Mental Health Wellbeing Service
Abstract
‘The flagship reform’ recommended in the 2021 final report of the Royal Commission into Victoria's Mental Health System was the creation new Adult and Older Adult Local Mental Health and Wellbeing Services (LMHWBS) to deliver community‑based mental health and wellbeing services with extended hours of operation. Benalla Wangaratta Mansfield LMHWBS was selected as one of the first 6 of the envisaged 50-60 services and has been operational since February 2023.
Benalla Wangaratta Mansfield LMHWBS is a partnership of Wellways Australia, ACSO and Albury Wodonga Health. The service has 3 intertwined teams – the Building Community Capacity Team’s role is to lead engagement with the local communities to ensure the service meets the needs of those communities. The largest team, Support and Connect, comprised of peer workers and wellbeing navigators, role includes welcoming people into the service and providing a range of peer led and psychosocial supports. The Towards Change team, comprised of mental health and AOD specialist workers, provides clinical interventions using group and 1:1 modalities.
We will identify and reflect on lessons learned, successes and challenges experienced in the first 12 months of this new service model. Key learnings include the importance of co-design and working with the local community to ensure services are fit for purpose; the importance of enhancing social connection of participants; and the need to create home-grown solutions to overcome local challenges, assisting participants work towards self-management.
Benalla Wangaratta Mansfield LMHWBS is a partnership of Wellways Australia, ACSO and Albury Wodonga Health. The service has 3 intertwined teams – the Building Community Capacity Team’s role is to lead engagement with the local communities to ensure the service meets the needs of those communities. The largest team, Support and Connect, comprised of peer workers and wellbeing navigators, role includes welcoming people into the service and providing a range of peer led and psychosocial supports. The Towards Change team, comprised of mental health and AOD specialist workers, provides clinical interventions using group and 1:1 modalities.
We will identify and reflect on lessons learned, successes and challenges experienced in the first 12 months of this new service model. Key learnings include the importance of co-design and working with the local community to ensure services are fit for purpose; the importance of enhancing social connection of participants; and the need to create home-grown solutions to overcome local challenges, assisting participants work towards self-management.
Biography
A/Prof Harry Hill is a Fellow of the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists (RANZCP) and holds an advanced certificate in addiction psychiatry.
A/Prof Hill is the clinical director of the Benalla Wangaratta Mansfield LMHWB. He serves on the Barwon Health and Deakin University CHIME expert advisory group and was the recent Victorian representative of the RANZCP section of social, cultural and rehabilitation psychiatry.
A/Prof Hill is passionate about rural health, growing up in North East Victoria. He's proud to return home and be involved in the creation of a new and innovative service for his local community.
Ms Michelle Hutton
Wellbeing Navigator Peer
Wellways Australia
Our First Year - Early Learnings From a Rural Victorian Local Mental Health Wellbeing Service
Abstract
‘The flagship reform’ recommended in the 2021 final report of the Royal Commission into Victoria's Mental Health System was the creation new Adult and Older Adult Local Mental Health and Wellbeing Services (LMHWBS) to deliver community‑based mental health and wellbeing services with extended hours of operation. Benalla Wangaratta Mansfield LMHWBS was selected as one of the first 6 of the envisaged 50-60 services and has been operational since February 2023.
Benalla Wangaratta Mansfield LMHWBS is a partnership of Wellways Australia, ACSO and Albury Wodonga Health. The service has 3 intertwined teams – the Building Community Capacity Team’s role is to lead engagement with the local communities to ensure the service meets the needs of those communities. The largest team, Support and Connect, comprised of peer workers and wellbeing navigators, role includes welcoming people into the service and providing a range of peer led and psychosocial supports. The Towards Change team, comprised of mental health and AOD specialist workers, provides clinical interventions using group and 1:1 modalities.
We will identify and reflect on lessons learned, successes and challenges experienced in the first 12 months of this new service model. Key learnings include the importance of co-design and working with the local community to ensure services are fit for purpose; the importance of enhancing social connection of participants; and the need to create home-grown solutions to overcome local challenges, assisting participants work towards self-management.
Benalla Wangaratta Mansfield LMHWBS is a partnership of Wellways Australia, ACSO and Albury Wodonga Health. The service has 3 intertwined teams – the Building Community Capacity Team’s role is to lead engagement with the local communities to ensure the service meets the needs of those communities. The largest team, Support and Connect, comprised of peer workers and wellbeing navigators, role includes welcoming people into the service and providing a range of peer led and psychosocial supports. The Towards Change team, comprised of mental health and AOD specialist workers, provides clinical interventions using group and 1:1 modalities.
We will identify and reflect on lessons learned, successes and challenges experienced in the first 12 months of this new service model. Key learnings include the importance of co-design and working with the local community to ensure services are fit for purpose; the importance of enhancing social connection of participants; and the need to create home-grown solutions to overcome local challenges, assisting participants work towards self-management.
Biography
Michelle is a Wellbeing Navigator Peer in the Benalla Wangaratta Mansfield LMHWBS who loves having the opportunity to walk alongside others on their recovery and healing journey. To be able to explore the life they want to create, and work collaboratively on achieving this. Having her own lived experience with mental health challenges has developed her understanding of how non-clinical pathways can have a profound impact on a person's healing journey. Coming out the other side of her struggle has ignited a passion to give back to others.
