Project Officer: Karen Frost
Phone: 8752 4910

Project Officer (ATAPS): Mano Arumanayagam
Phone: 8752 4907

Project Officer (MH/DA Shared Care): Helen Golightly
Phone: 8752 4913

Project Officer (MH/DA Clinical Care): Darren Smyth
Phone: 8752 4930
Mobile: 0478 398 641

Mental Health GP Advisors: Dr Margo Hoekstra
Drug & Alcohol GP Advisors: Dr Hester Wilson & Dr Paul Sztolcman

Clinical Trials
Consumers and Carers
Education
Local services and referral pathways
Online mental health programs for consumers

Overview

CSGPN’s Mental Health and Drug and Alcohol Projects aim to improve and enhance the generalist psychiatry and drug and alcohol assessment, diagnostic and management skills of family physicians and local doctors. The aim is to improve timely access to evidence based quality treatments for their patients presenting with mental health and drug and alcohol problems.

CSGPN does this through a range of activities including:

• developing shared care partnerships between doctors and specialist psychiatry and psychology services
• coordinating professional development programs
• auspicing a strategic advisory committee which brings doctors and specialists together to discuss and sort out issues
• providing advice to doctors about how they can access various Australian Government funded treatment and support services for their patients

Local services and referral pathways

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Psychiatry Support

• GP Psychiatry Support
• Psychiatrist referral directory - available to Members of RACGP

SLHN Services

Sydney Local Health Network (SLHN) has a specific Area Mental Health website which offers support and information for consumers, carers and other service providers. The website has a ‘Find a service’ option which allows users to search for local services, including information on community mental health teams, boarding house teams, clinics for specific mental health disorders and specialist mental health services for older people. Emergency numbers are listed under the ‘Other Service Providers’ tab.

• Referral Guide for Mental Health Teams in Central Sydney
• The Mental Health Telephone Access Line (24 hours): 1800 011 511
• NSW Mental Health Act 2007 involuntary schedule of a mental health patient form. Please click on the following links for Schedule 1 form: Medical Director template | Best Practice template
• Community Health Centre Catchment Areas for CSGPN - 15.6mb Printable

Child, Adolescent and Family

• Rivendell Child & Adolescent Unit - Concord
• headspace Central Sydney
• Reach Out Pro provides access and advice for health care professionals on a range of technologies and online resources that can be used to enhance the effectiveness of psychosocial support and mental health care provided to young people
• Centacare Sydney - Family Relationships
• Brain & Mind Research Institute (BMRI)

MBS Rebated Service Providers

• Public Directory of Medical and Allied Health Professionals
• Allied Health Providers Listing

Multicultural Services

• Multicultural Mental Health Australia
• Transcultural Mental Health Centre
• Chinese Australian Services Society
• Greek Welfare Centre - Newtown
• Co-As-It Sydney- Italian Association of Assistance & Welfare

Targeted counselling services

• Veterans and Veterans Families Counselling Service
• Subsidised counselling schemes e.g. Workplace Injury / Motor Vehicle Accidents / Victims of Crime

Local Private Hospitals

• St John of God
• Wesley Private Hospital

Non Government Organisations

• Mental Health Coordinating Council
• Network of Alcohol & Other Drug Agencies

GP Education & Training - specific training

• CSGPN regularly runs Mental Health CPD events (including MHST), please refer to our CPD Events page of the website for further details.
• A number of external education providers offer mental health activities. For details on external education providers refer to the External Education page of our website.
• GP Psychiatrist Supervision Program: We coordinate two small groups where GPs meet up with a psychiatrist to discuss care issues and mental health management. For more information on these groups, Karen Frost
• Clinical Attachments: We link interested GPs with specialist mental health services, and provide an information kit to help with the RACGP requirements. If you would like to be involved, contact Karen Frost Also see RACGP clinical attachment GP forms and guides.
• The Royal Australian College of General Practitioners has a mental health website with many resources for GPs. Visit their website, click on the following link RACGP

Consumers and Carers

• Lifeline free helpline 24-hour telephone counselling services 13 11 14
• Kids Helpline free helpline 1800 55 1800
• Reach Out website for youth to find information on mental health and wellbeing, and connect with other youth
• The Butterfly Foundation - provides support for Australians who suffer from eating disorders and negative body image issues and their carers
• SANE Australia free helpline 1800 18 7263
• Families NSW - provides parents and carers with information on a wide variety of services for families in NSW
• Carer Assist - provides individual advocacy, support, education and training programs to families and carers of someone who has a mental illness
• Mental Health First Aid

Online mental health programs for consumers

• Mood Assessment Program (MAP) - The Black Dog Institute’s computerised assessment and diagnostic tool for mood disorders.
• Anxiety Online - developed by Swinbourne Unversity of Technology offering information, assessment, online diagnosis and treatment programs (“eTherapy”) for the anxiety disorders
• CRUfad Clinic - inititative of St Vincent’s Hospital; an online courses for people with anxiety or depressive disorders

Clinical Trials

• The Black Dog Institute research programs
• University of Sydney mental health research projects
• The University of Western Sydney mental health research projects
• Centre for Complementary Medicine Research