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Mental health service provision to Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander people is provided through mainstream mental health services. Currently the Townsville Institute of Mental Health Services, employs a number of Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Mental Health Workers that work across the spectrums of Adult, Child and Youth, Forensic, Extended Care and Rehabilitation.
The Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Mental Health Worker's primary role is to provide cultural support and guidance to clinical staff, establish and maintain networks with various community organisations and provide culutrally appropriate mental health & social and emotional wellbeing promotion and prevention programs to the Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Community.
The Townsville Institute of Mental Health Services continues to strive toward strengthening existing and further developing a range of strategies to support and provide culturally-appropriate services. The service employs an Indigenous Mental Health Professional Senior and a District Indigenous Mental Health Worker/Coordinator. These positions have membership on the the Professional Senior Group and the Executive Committees across the Mental Health Service. These two senior positions provide strategic direction to the service on culturally appropriate mental health models of care and clinical practice culminating in an integrated mental health service.
A mental health team works on Palm Island; Monday to Friday. A senior Indigenous Mental Health Clinician, Consultant Psychiatrist and a Psychiatric Registrar provide a visiting mental health service every six weeks to the remote communities of Mornington Island and Doomadgee. Normanton, Burketown, Karumba and Gregory Downs are also visited periodically. In addition to the above, a Psychiatric Registrar provides a weekly mental health clinic at the Townsville Aboriginal and Islander Health Service (TAIHS) in Garbutt.
TAIHS - Telephone: +61 7 4759 4000
Individuals have access to a range of specialised treatment and support options. Care is designed in a continuous and coordinated manner and is offered between a range of settings.
Joyce Palmer Health Service (Palm Island)
Palm Island Mental Health Service
Liz Wilson - Senior Indigenous Mental Health Clinician
Lynette Anderson - District Indigenous Mental Health Worker/Coordinator
| Location | Vincent Campus. Cambridge Street Health Facility 59 Cambridge Street, Vincent QLD 4814 |
| Postal Address | IMB 94. PO Box 670. Townsville QLD 4810 |
| Telephone | + 61 7 4775 8100 |
| Facsimile | + 61 7 4775 8101 |
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