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IHSHY programsPage contents: Overview | Barwon South Western Region | Gippsland Region | Grampians Region | Hume Region | Loddon Mallee Region | Northern Metropolitan Region | Eastern Metropolitan Region | Southern Metropolitan Region OverviewDuring 2008-09, eighteen Victorian community & mental health services, aboriginal health services and youth specific health services are being funded $1,478,000 to deliver IHSHY programs. Staff who provide IHSHY services are typically community health nurses or community development workers. Victorian IHSHY services provide a range of clinical, health promotion and counselling services to homeless and at risk clients including:
IHSHY services have adopted a range of different approaches to service delivery which are effective in supporting their client group. An outreach approach is an effective method used by IHSHY staff to meet the immediate and long-term health, social and emotional needs of the young people. This approach includes making referrals to other appropriate services, taking clients to appointments, making phone calls on their behalf and providing case management services. IHSHY services also provide an annual report on clients, services and program to the Commonwealth Department of Health and Ageing. Locations and descriptions of all the current innovative health services for homeless youth (IHSHY) provided across Australia are available from the Federal Department of Health and Ageing website. Copies of reports from 2007-08 for each Victorian IHSHY service together with their contact details is provided below: Barwon South Western RegionJigsaw Young Person’s Health Service, Barwon Health Level 1, Suite 4-6 Corio Shopping Centre JIGSAW Young Person’s Health Service commenced service in May 2005 and delivers a youth-friendly health care service for 12-25 year olds based in the northern suburbs of Geelong and beyond. It is located at the Corio Shopping Centre. The service brings together Barwon Health Mental Health and Drug Treatment services, GP Division of Geelong, the Mental Illness Fellowship and Pathways Rehabilitation and Support Services, providing a unique integration of key health services for youth. Services provided currently include Bulk billing GP Practice, vocational and employment support, specialist mental health and drug and alcohol treatment, counselling and sexual reproductive health nursing. JIGSAW also includes a satellite presence from CASA [Centre against Sexual Assault], Centrelink and YAPP [Young approach to Positive Parenting].
Portland and District Homeless Youth Project Bentinck Street The IHSHY service run by Portland District Health provides information, education, advocacy, counselling and support services to young people within the Portland District.
Gippsland RegionLatrobe Community Health Services 81 Buckley Street The Community Health Nurse is working under IHSHY to provide a point of access to health services to young people through outreach and centre based assessment across the Latrobe Valley. The nurse provides support, counselling, referral, health information and education to young people who are homeless or at risk of homelessness to ensure that they receive adequate health care.
Grampians RegionParticipation, Access, Research and Training on Homelessness (PARTH), Ballarat Community Health CentreCooinda The PARTH program has a prevention focus and works with in a health promotion model to better address the mental health needs of young people including homeless young people. This is achieved by providing information and training to workers and participating/facilitating networks to develop deliver and advocate for youth specific services. The goal is to establish better linkages, mutual understanding and cooperative working relationships between young people and services.
Hume RegionRumbalara Aboriginal Co-operative Ltd 20 Rumbalara Road, Mooroopna The Rumbalara Aboriginal Co-operative Ltd has five service areas; Health, Housing, Family, Home Aged & Community Care and Administration & Finance. The Health Service accommodates the IHSHY program within its structure. Services provided include counselling, health and dental checks, school liaison and advocacy and anger management.
Loddon Mallee RegionBendigo Community Health Services 171 Hargreaves Street The IHSHY program provides community based support for young people, including:
Mildura Aboriginal Corporation 120 Madden Avenue Mildura Aboriginal Corporation (MAC) is a health and welfare service provider for the local Indigenous community in the Sunraysia District. Services provided include early intervention child protection and health assistance including maternal and child care, eye checks, on site doctors, mental health/drug and alcohol (dual diagnosis team), housing, family violence legal assistance, and stolen generation assistance and support.
Northern Metropolitan RegionThe Victorian Foundation for Survivors of Torture Inc 6 Gardiner Street VFST provides assistance for refugee young people who are experiencing dislocation and who have to face barriers to a successful settlement in Australia. Various modalities are utilised including assessment, interventions and support. Combining the IHSHY funding with other funding sources, VFST is able to include a broad systemic response to the wider service sector that impacts young people – education, health, employment and housing. VFST also provides training and professional development to the wider service sector to inform their practice in regards to this group. The IHSHY workers in particular target the service sector that is primarily concerned with young people. Homeless Persons Program, Royal District Nursing Service 113 Roslyn Street The Royal District Nursing service (RDNS) Homeless Persons Program (HPP) has two youth focus positions in the northern suburbs of Melbourne. The service is co-located with Anglicare at their Glenroy and Preston locations. The two community nurses at these locations provide outreach to offer a primary health care response to young people (12- 25) who are at risk or are experiencing homelessness. The program offers an assertive, practical and flexible health care response that actively supports young people to navigate their way through the health care system. The service provides assessment of social and physical issues and needs, referral, advocacy with and on behalf of the client and client group, harm minimisation and health promotion on an individual basis. Further information can be found at: www.rdns.com.au Darebin Community Health Service 125 Blake Street IHSHY provides long term therapeutic counselling and group work to young people in Darebin that are at risk of homelessness or are homeless. An experienced psychologist and family therapist works with young people and their family particularly for young people who experience homelessness, or have difficulties with mental health and addiction issues. It provides this using various interventions and can offer flexible outreach. Referrals can be made direct to the worker and therefore bypass intake systems. The service also provides secondary consultation, supervision and training to youth workers and teachers and personal growth support groups.
Young People’s Health Service Centre for Adolescent health/Frontyard Youth Services Youth People’s Health Service is a nurse led primary health care service for young people aged 12-22 years who are experiencing homelessness and frequent Melbourne’s CBD. YPHS provides clinical services at Frontyard Youth Services on weekday’s between 12 noon and 5pm. In addition, street, refuge and secure welfare outreach are undertaken to raise awareness of the service and engage with young people. Health promotion is also a key focus of the service in the development of partnerships, piloting new interventions and developing a framework for youth involvement.
Eastern Metropolitan RegionEastern Centre Against Sexual Assault (ECASA) 17 Ware Crescent ECASA’s “Homeless Youth Outreach Project” assists homeless young people who have been sexually assaulted to have access to the information, support advocacy and counselling services they require. The Project also provides secondary consultation, education and training to professionals/community members supporting homeless young people, and engages in relevant community development & health promotion activities. The Project operates within the Outer Eastern Melbourne Metropolitan Region.
Homeless Youth Project: Eastern Access Community Health 46 Warrandyte Road Ringwood The Homeless Youth Project offers a service to the community to improve the physical, social and emotional health of young homeless people at risk. It aims to promote access to mainstream and specialist health services through:
The Homeless Youth Project conducts a sessional Youth Health Clinic to help young people access health services in the Eastern metropolitan region of Melbourne and minimise barriers that young at-risk people face when accessing medical services. This service offers medical care for marginalised young people. It has brought about an increase in the provision of opportunistic Health Promotion to the young people who attend the service while maintaining an advocacy role around referral and engagement of other mainstream health services. Southern Metropolitan RegionNgwala Willumbong Co-operative Ltd 93 Wellington Street, St Kilda Ngwala Willumbong provides a culturally sensitive IHSHY response to the young Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander people, and through association and cultural necessity their families, of the Southern Metropolitan Region of the Department of Human Services. Through intensive outreach support & engagement the service aims to improve the health and social resilience of the target group through the provision of information, education, advice & counselling, referral & linkage activities to ensure access to specialist & generalist medical and social support systems and services.
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21 September, 2009
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