Mental Health Promotions Officer
Contact Person: Julie Barlow
The Mental Health Promotion Officer (MHPO) is part of the Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS) across the Southern Region. The MHPO works through linkage and coordination with a range of community networks and agencies to enhance accessibility, appropriateness and delivery of mental health services through the region. In particular, the position works to address a range of complex issues related to vulnerable young people who have mental health issues and/or at risk of suicide that normally would not access CAMHS. This is achieved through the MHPO working in a flexible manner to provide support, information sharing, regional and local networking, and linkage with community groupings and agencies.
| It provides secondary consultation, education and training sessions and policy development with agencies and professionals working with young people whose behaviour or emotional state places them at risk. Also, the position assists with development of particular project partnerships focused around young people’s needs in mental health promotion and prevention and participates in and assists facilitation of intersectoral collaborative forums. These approaches empower and support communities and enhance possibilities for improving the mental health of groups of young people in the community. |
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Location and contact details as follows:
Julie Barlow
Mental Health Promotion Officer Southern Region
Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services
Monash Medical Centre
Locked Bag 29
Clayton 3168
PH 9594 1317
Fax 9594 6333
Email j.barlow@southernhealth.org.au
To contact us email to: camhs@southernhealth.org.au