St. Luke's

Services offered by St Luke's Anglicare

Community Services

Click on the links above to view the various Children and Family Services offered by St Lukes Anglicare.

Mental Health Services

Psychiatric Disability Rehabilitation and Support Services (PDRSS)

These are recovery focused mental health services for adults and young persons with a mental illness.

These services operate on a consumer based model, have a holistic focus and complement and work alongside clinical psychiatric services.

These are regionally provided services from the St Luke’s offices in: ·

Bendigo - Whirrakee
Kyneton
Echuca
Maryborough
Castlemaine

PDRSS programs include:

- Day Programs: a combination of centre based and community based group programs.
Housing and Home Based Outreach Services, including intensive support for clients with complex and high needs.

- Housing and support: provision of long term housing and support to assist clients with a mental illness to access and sustain suitable housing.

- Mother’s Connect: provision of services for women with a mental illness who are parents of small children.

- Planned Respite Care (flexible care packages for carer’s of adults with a mental illness).

- Young person’s activity programs with a mental illness including social, recreational and pre-vocational training

The PDRS programs aim to provide flexible, responsive and effective services by assisting and supporting people in their rehabilitation journey. Staff work closely with clients to implement Individual Service Plans in order to achieve client goals.

 

St Luke's Planned Respite Service

Are You Caring For An Adult With A Mental Illness?

The Respite service operates through St Luke's Anglicare and is affiliated with Mallee Family Care.

It is a service offering planned respite to carers and consumers living with mental illness who reside in the Loddon Mallee Region.

The service is flexible and respite is provided in a form that best suits the needs identified by the carer and consumer.

Respite can provide carers and consumers with time to focus on their social, emotional and physical needs.

Who Is The Respite Service For?

St Luke's Planned Respite Service is for Carers and Adult Consumers (18-65) living with a mental illness.

To be eligible:

Consumers need to have clinical support, e.g. case manager, private psychiatrist or G.P. where psychiatric services are not available.

Both Carer and Consumer are looking for planned respite.

Carers and Consumers need to reside in the Loddon Mallee Region

How Can Respite Help?

Respite is designed to give a carer time out from the usual caring role. It can be used in a variety of ways:

The respite worker is available to assist the carer and consumer develop a respite plan

Respite can be provided in your home. For example when the carer is going out or away.

Respite funding can be used for activities out of home, club memberships, educational courses, a break away.

The Respite Service offers Carers and Consumers the opportunity to meet some of their individual needs including:

Assistance in planning and coordinating details and arrangements of the respite break

Information for Carers and Consumers on services available in their local area.

Gaining support from other services to have a well planned and resourced break.

 

Making Contact:

For further information about Respite Services please feel free to contact St Luke's on:
Telephone: (03) 5440 1100
Email: info@stlukes.org.au