The Farrer Flier
Mental health moves towards MAY2016.issue33 individualised care packages Grants for Sporting Schools The Australian Government’s $100million Sporting School’s programme is now just on 12 Between four and five million Australians Under this package people, identified by months old - and I am delighted that more than FLIER suffer some form of mental health issue in health professionals as needing complex care sixty schools and communities across Farrer THE FARRER any one given year, making it ranked the third services, are eligible to access integrated have registered for the programme. largest chronic disease in the country. health services, including comprehensive We know parents live busy lives and we know assessment and care-coordination support; Now, as part of bold new reforms, Australians that finding the time to schedule in sport for psychological services; mental health With the electorate redistribution announced earlier in the year, this will be the first (hopefully of many) of my fliers received in areas including with a severe and complex mental illness will children is sometimes really challenging. In nursing; drug and alcohol services; vocational Griffith, Coleambally, Leeton, Narrandera and Hillston. To the shires of Murrumbidgee, Leeton, Carrathool and Narrandera and Griffith City - have access to an integrated care package response to that, Sporting Schools has been assistance; and peer support. welcome to Farrer! tailored to their individual needs. designed to get more children fit, healthy The arrangements are to be phased in over Just like any other chronic disease, mental and involved in sport earlier in life, while also I am excited to get to know these new areas and the people who help make them so special.
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