Young people in the Colac area have increased access to a range of specialist mental health supports and services with the opening of the community’s new headspace centre in October. headspace Colac is providing young people aged 12 to 25 and their families with access to a youth-friendly,...

Specialist support in the comfort of home is changing the way people are treated with acute mental illness, thanks to a Victoria-first Hospital in the Home (HITH) program at Barwon Health. Since April 2021, a multi-disciplinary team has provided an alternative option to hospital admission for...

Geelong and Barwon region residents now have better access to mental health support with the completion of Barwon Health’s McKellar Mental Health and Wellbeing Centre. The Victorian Government’s investment into the Mental Health Beds Expansion Program has delivered 16 acute mental...