APROTCH provides rehabilitation, including vocational, educational, recreational and individual support designed to meet the specific needs of adults experiencing a mental illness.

Programs include:
-- Art Group
This groups offers consumers the opportunity to work at their own ability levels and experiment with paints, pastels and charcoal.  The group is run by a volunteer artist.
For adults 16 - 64 years with a mental illness
-- Leisure Skills
This group is for high energy people who enjoy participating in sport.  The group plays basketball, cricket, goes swimming, bushwalking and usually has a yearly trip to an MCG football match.
For adults 16 - 64 years with a mental illness.
-- Guitar Group
This group is available for beginers to advanced. Lessons are geared to the participants level of expertise.
For adults 16 - 64 years with a mental illness.
-- Drop In
Drop In is encouraged when structured programs are not available.
For adults 16 - 64 with a mental illness.
-- Newsletter Group
Basic IT skills are required to contribute to our own newsletter 'Momentum'.
For adults 16 - 64 with a mental illness.
-- Get Fit and Stay Fit
Get Fit and Stay Fit program gives participants the opportunity to try various forms of sporting activities with the option for ongoing participation. For adults 16 - 64 with a mental illness.
-- Furniture Restoration
The members of this group are able to restore either their own pieces of furniture or work on a group project.  Consumers have creative control over their own furniture and are also able to learn to French Polish.
For adults 16 - 64 years with a mental illness.
-- Woodwork
A  woodwork group where people are able to make various items which they can then take home.  People are able to use scrap wood available to make CD racks, magazine holders, chopping boards and key holders.
For adults 16 - 64 years with a mental illness.
-- Gardening Group
A group learning skills for gardening, including vocational skills and rotates around the homes of group members as requested.
For adults 16 - 64 years with a mental illness.

Area Serviced
City of Ballarat, Shires including Moorabool, Golden Plains and Hepburn.

Initial Contact
Reception

Additional Information
8:30.00 am - 5.00 pm, Mon - Fri, 5338 4500 for enquiries & appointments ww.biga

Ballarat Community Health - Lucas

Medicare funded bulk billed mental health assessments to treat a wide range of conditions   including depression, anxiety, stress, substance misuse and addiction, eating disorders, PTSD, carer stress, psychosis and phobias. 

Local provider for ATPS/PTS gap free mental health counselling. Along with NDIS, health cover and Workcover.

Clear Thinking Mental Health Group

Additional Services Provided: Psychotherapy; treatment for anxiety, depression, relationship issues; perinatal difficulties.

Over 35 years experience in treating patients. Work as sole practitioner in secluded suburban practice. Privacy is paramount. Medicare referrals accepted.

Ballarat-Talking Cure

Psychotherapy; treatment for anxiety, depression, relationship issues; perinatal difficulties,
Over 35 years experience in treating patients. Work as sole practitioner in secluded suburban practice. Privacy is paramount. Medicare referrals accepted.

McCallum Disability Services Inc - Ballarat

McCallum Disability Services is a provider of services for people with a disability throughout Ballarat and St Arnaud districts.
This includes: Accommodation, Respite, Lifestyle Options (1:1 support, Community Connections (group based programs)Supported Employment.

This service is available to all Victorians who may be experiencing distress or mental ill health, and their families, carers or support networks. Call 1800 595 212 or go to your local centre.

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Ballarat Community Health - Wendouree

Ballarat Community Health provides quality confidential community based health services enabling people of all ages to attain and maintain optimal health and well being. Services include Health Promotion, Alcohol/Drug services, Mental Health programs, Counseling, Youth Housing, Refugee Health and Support Services, Community Health nursing, Clinical and Allied health advice and assessments, General Practice Clinics, Sexual health Clinic, Workplace Health checks. Services are provided from six main sites located in Central Ballarat, Ballarat East, Sebastopol, Smythesdale, Wendouree and Wendouree West. Outreach clinics and services are also delivered at a number of locations throughout the Central Highlands. The Centre is an accredited community health service provider through the Quality Improvement Council and has 3 year accreditation under the Quality Improvement Community Services Accreditation of Victoria (QICSA).

Lotus Family Clinic

Ann Rose Psychology

Ann Rose Psychology provides psychology services to people of Ballarat and surrounding districts. The practice is located in a peaceful garden setting that has free parking or is easily accessible by public transport.
Ann also provides a regular service from the Skipton campus of the Beaufort and Skipton Health Service.

Additional Info: With a telephone answering machine available when the office is unattended.

Appointments are also available for Thursdays in Maryborough: 244 High Street, Maryborough 3465, please call to confirm availabilty and to make an appointment.

David Hyatt (MAPS)

The Cognitive, Dementia and Memory Service (CDAMS) provides specialist multidisciplinary referral, education and advisory service for people experiencing memory loss, confusion or thinking (cognitive) problems and for their carers, and families.
Symptoms may include: Short term memory loss; personality changes - frustration or anger; loss of ability to do everyday tasks, failure to recognise familiar people or objects; wandering; anxiety; mobility impairment; incontinence; pain or speech difficulties.

CDAMS provides:
-- Expert clinical diagnosis.
-- Assessment of the impact of any impairment within the home or other familiar environment.
-- Education, support and advice.
-- Linkages to appropriate service via a general practitioner or principal care provider.
-- Referral, if appropriate, of clients or carers to other service providers.
Service Area
Grampians Region

Initial Contact
Reception, Ph: 03 5320 3704     FAX: 03 5320 3661

Ballarat Health Services - Central Intake

Central Intake is an access and referral management service providing consumers; carers and patients with a single point of entry to those programs within the scope of Community Programs as well as facilitating navigation of the broader community service system.  Programs: Post Acute Care; Hospital Admission Risk Program; Grampians Regional Continence Service; Cognitive, Dementia and Memory Service; Allied Health; Rehab in the Home; Grampians Regional Palliative Care Team; Planned Activity Groups; Linkages; Aged Care Assessment Service and Carer Respite and Support Services. Central Intake is an access and referral management service providing consumers/carers/patients with a single point of entry to those programs in the scope of Community programs as well as facilitating navigation of the broader community services system

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