More than $800,000 in funding will be spent to help people in the Murrumbidgee with severe mental illness.
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The funding – totalling $814,250 over three years – has been earmarked to provide support to people who would otherwise have slipped through the cracks: people who are not already getting help and for whom the NDIS was not designed.
Melissa Neal, the CEO of the Murrumbidgee Primary Health Network, said while the NDIS provided support for people with severe and disabling mental illness, “it was not designed for those who would benefit from receiving specialised and less intensive psychosocial support services in the short-term linked to their needs”.
Ms Neal said the MPHN had identified people aged 65 years and older and Aboriginal people as the most at risk of poor outcomes and not currently well serviced in our communities.
“However, although these will be prioritised anyone can be referred to the program,” she said.
The Wellways organisation, which currently provides other services in the region, has been awarded the contract to roll out the program, from mid-January.
