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).

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Psych In Sync Psychology

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

Carer Respite and Support Services

Information and support for carer's and care coordination and linking to carer's respite services. The Carer Respite Centre provides a single contact point for carers to access respite care and information on other available resources to support them in their caring role. A Carer is a person who is looking after someone who is frail, aged, has a disability, chronic illness or mental illness, and the Carer can be family, close friend or neighbours. Respite care enables Carers to have a break from their caring role to allow them time to attend appointments, go shopping, social engagements or just some 'time out'. Care is available as short-term, occasional or emergency respite care.

Ballarat Community Health - Lucas

Open 24 hours

Contact hours provided below.

Wynalla House

Services including supported residential and low-level aged residential care

DAYLESFORD NEIGHBOURHOOD CENTRE INC

 Daylesford Neighbourhood Centre is a not for profit organisation that provides training and opportunities for community participation. Incorporated under the Associations Incorporation Act the Neighbourhood Centre is governed by an elected Committee of Management with a range of backgrounds and experiences. 

Mission 
In our practice, the Daylesford Neighbourhood Centre aims to be generous, responsive, viable, dynamic and multifaceted in: 
1. Initiating and providing services for the community;    
2. Engaging with and supporting community activities and action;
3. Changing and growing in response to community need and demand; and, 
4. Strengthening organisational and environmental health, effectiveness and sustainability.

Programs and Activities
Daylesford Neighbourhood Centre offers a range of activities to satisfy the needs of a very diverse community, with a focus both on the whole person and the whole of life. With a focus on the individual, our programs range from engagement and health promotion activities through to nationally recognised training which leads to employment and/or pathways to higher level training and education. Services also encompass the ‘whole of life’ extending from childcare brokerage funding and activities for young children, homework support for the middle years as well as the Victorian Certificate of Applied Learning and other training programs for young people right through to joint activities with the U3A and the provision of computers and IT support to older people where they live.

For the full range of activites and courses, visit our web site via the link below<?b>

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