Mental Health, Alcohol and Other Drugs service re-design in western Victoria

Setting a clear direction for Mental Health and AOD primary health services in western Victoria.

Western Victoria PHN (WVPHN) is inviting with people with lived experience; carers; and health and community service providers to work with us and set a clear direction for our commissioned support services for people with Mental Health and/or Alcohol and Other Drugs (AOD) issues.

Help us design and develop improved primary health services by identifying new and innovative ideas to deliver Mental Health support and AOD support throughout western Victoria.

WVPHN is committed to ensuring the services we commission reach across our region including in rural and remote areas and we want to you to become involved so we better understand where and how the services are most needed.

Be involved

Over the coming months, we invite you to engage with the WVPHN Project Team to firstly share your experience with primary health care services for Mental Health and/or AOD in western Victoria and then to participate in the design and development of services.

Stage 1 – Share Your Experience- Completed

The first phase, share your experience, has been completed. Thanks to everyone who generously shared their experience of mental health and alcohol and other drug services across our region with us, it has helped us gain a better picture of what currently works and what needs improving. We will share a summary on Meeting Place soon.

Your experience and knowledge of primary health care services for Mental Health and/or AOD in western Victoria is important. We invite interested members of the community and people working in community service or health services to tell us your story.

This information will help us gain a better picture of what currently works and what needs improvement as we move forward.

Phase 2 - Development and Design

Face to face and online sessions will be held across July

For further information and to register follow the link below

Service Redesign session information and registrations

Before participating

Please read the following documents and information:

• How will my information be used here
• What if my participation includes a difficult experience?
  • Sharing a difficult experience can be upsetting. Before deciding to participate you may wish to read the following here. Help and support services are listed on the top right of this page.

What if I am unable to attend the online workshops?

• Share your story online here
• Fill out our anonymous online survey here
• Register to participate in a short phone interview here

Please note

• You can edit your screen name here.
• The project is monitored and we will not publish material which breaks the Terms and Conditions.
• Inappropriate comments will be removed in line with the Moderation policy.