The Government will fund more frontline workers and establish new services for people in need of a better mental health crisis response, Minister for Mental Health Matt Doocey has announced.<\/p>\n
“When someone takes the brave step to reach out, whether it\u2019s you, your child, a friend, or a family member we\u2019re committed to ensuring the right support is always there to answer that call,” Doocey said.<\/p>\n
“This package goes a long way in making sure that\u2019s possible.”<\/p>\n
The $61.6 million funding boost over four years would deliver 40 additional frontline clinical staff for crisis assessment and treatment teams, two new 10-bed peer-led acute alternative services, peer support workers in three more emergency departments, and two new crisis recovery cafes. <\/p>\n
Doocey said the initiatives were designed to ensure faster access to care and more options for people in distress. <\/p>\n
“We don\u2019t want people waiting long periods for crisis assessments or inpatient beds. These peer-led services provide more choice and quicker support.<\/p>\n
“We\u2019re already hearing great feedback about peer support workers in EDs. Rolling out peer support workers in more EDs will result in a better crisis response and more people being better supported.”<\/p>\n
The announcement built on Budget 2025 commitments, which include $28 million for 10 mental health co-response teams to attend 111 calls involving mental distress, and increased capacity for crisis helplines.<\/p>\n
The Government had also implemented a 60-minute handover policy for police bringing individuals in distress to emergency departments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Government will fund more frontline workers and establish new services for people in need of a better…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":121962,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[163,85,46,522,523],"class_list":{"0":"post-121961","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mental-health","8":"tag-health","9":"tag-il","10":"tag-israel","11":"tag-mental-health","12":"tag-mentalhealth"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121961","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121961"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121961\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/121962"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}