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Mental Health Advocacy Service
Mental health advocacy
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Opens Mon, 11 Nov 8:30am
Mental Health Advocacy Service
Opening times
- Monday8:30am–4:30pm
- Tuesday8:30am–4:30pm
- Wednesday8:30am–4:30pm
- Thursday8:30am–4:30pm
- Friday8:30am–4:30pm
Contact
Phone 1800 999 057
Location
Unit 1, 18 Harvest Terrace WEST PERTH WA 6005
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Billing
No fee
A free service where no payment or Medicare card is required.
Additional information
Independent, free service helping people with a mental illness know and protect their rights.
Office hours are 8:30AM - 4:30PM, however the service operates 24hrs a day, 7 days a week.
Mental Health Advocates can help you if you are:
• an involuntary patient in hospital.
• someone on a Community Treatment Order (CTO)
• someone who has been referred for examination by a psychiatrist (they must let you use a phone to call us if you are being detained)
• a voluntary patient in hospital who is not allowed to leave because you are being detained for assessment
• a mentally impaired accused person under the Criminal Law (Mentally Impaired Accused) Act 1996 (e.g. on a Hospital or Custody Order) and are detained in an authorised hospital or living in the community
• a resident of a private psychiatric hostel.
Types of assistance include, helping you;
• understand and enforce your rights
• arrange a meeting with your doctor or treating team and attend with you
• explain your wishes to your treating team
• get a further opinion from another psychiatrist
• apply to the Mental Health Tribunal to review your involuntary order or other decisions made about you
• support you in the Tribunal hearing
• refer you to lawyers
• get input into your treatment, support and discharge plan
• make a complaint about the mental health service
• get you an interpreter
• make contact with your family or other support persons.
Office hours are 8:30AM - 4:30PM, however the service operates 24hrs a day, 7 days a week.
Mental Health Advocates can help you if you are:
• an involuntary patient in hospital.
• someone on a Community Treatment Order (CTO)
• someone who has been referred for examination by a psychiatrist (they must let you use a phone to call us if you are being detained)
• a voluntary patient in hospital who is not allowed to leave because you are being detained for assessment
• a mentally impaired accused person under the Criminal Law (Mentally Impaired Accused) Act 1996 (e.g. on a Hospital or Custody Order) and are detained in an authorised hospital or living in the community
• a resident of a private psychiatric hostel.
Types of assistance include, helping you;
• understand and enforce your rights
• arrange a meeting with your doctor or treating team and attend with you
• explain your wishes to your treating team
• get a further opinion from another psychiatrist
• apply to the Mental Health Tribunal to review your involuntary order or other decisions made about you
• support you in the Tribunal hearing
• refer you to lawyers
• get input into your treatment, support and discharge plan
• make a complaint about the mental health service
• get you an interpreter
• make contact with your family or other support persons.
* Details may vary. Please call the service before visiting to double check details.
* Details may vary. Please call the service before visiting to double check details.