Ryde Community Mental Health Service provides:

A range of assessment, treatment and referral services for people living in the Ryde and Hunters Hill local government area. Interventions include early identification and treatment, crisis intervention, case management/care co-ordination, rehabilitation, recovery focussed programs, vocational assistance and training, and a consumer driven social and leisure facility. Ryde Community Mental Health Service manages a range of supported accommodation facilities.

Ryde Community Mental Health Service is available 7 days a week and urgent matters can be attended to 24 hours a day.

Acute Services	61-2 9858 7777
Community Rehab Team (CRT)	61-2 9858 7777
Community Recreation, Education, Access, Training & Employment Team (CREATE)	61-2 9816 0344
Aged Care Team	61-2 9858 7777

Mental Health Services
Ryde Community Health Service
39-41 Fourth Avenue
Eastwood NSW
Australia 2122

Phone: 61-2 9858 7777
Fax: 61-2 9858 7866 / 7722

Ryde Community Mental Health Service

Rehabilitation Programme

CREATE

The CREATE program - Community Recreation, Education Access, Training & Employment - is a specialised & truly multi-disciplinary (clinicians, teachers, trainers) mental health rehabilitation service that provides 3 specific strands of service delivery:

• Community Recreation - is primarily run out of the `HUT' on the Macquarie hospital campus - a social and leisure club which is consumer driven.
• Education Access - an experienced educator coordinates and promotes pathways & partnerships in education and training programmes.
• Training & Employment - training and employment opportunities are provided through the business enterprises of a `not for profit' organisation - Macquarie Area Rehabilitation Specialties Inc. MARS Inc.
  

The team is based above Cornucopia Café on the old Gladesville Hospital campus & operates during business hours.

The core objective of this program is to access, promote & partner opportunities for consumers in these strands:

• The award winning Vocational strand is a unique collaboration with a `not for profit' organisation MARS Inc. Supported employment is provided through competitive, commercially viable and successful businesses.
• NSH Area Mental Health is facilitating an integration of all vocational programs across the area and promoting truly Recovery oriented pathways for consumers.
• The CREATE program gives consumers the opportunity to work for award rates of pay in a supportive environment through accredited vocational skills courses. Consumers report improved quality of life and clearly exhibit positive vocational, psychological, social and functional improvement.

`Work is the major social mechanism through which we define who we are, where we belong and how we contribute to society.'

`Successful community mental health rehabilitation requires CREATive solutions to turn dreams into realities for consumers.'

Community Rehabilitation Team (CRT)

The CRT is a large multi-disciplinary team that provides individual clinical rehabilitation interventions including intensive case management for people with serious mental disorders. Interventions are provided predominantly in people's own homes & in the service's supported accommodation residences. The team operates between the hours of 8.00 am to 10.30 pm 7 days / week.

The core objective is to provide a comprehensive & timely Rehabilitation Service, that is guided by the principles of Recovery, skill development, health promotion and relapse prevention.

The CRT has developed a tiered approach to care & intervention that most directly addresses the Rehabilitation / Recovery needs of individuals referred to this Service.

The CRT provides a system of assessment and review of Rehabilitation / Consumer Goals and matches interventions that promote Recovery and independence.

The CRT provides service in two streams; the "Support Team" which provides ongoing treatment and support to consumers (disability support), and the "Assert Team" which coordinates all assessments & offers consumers individualised programs and interventions (clinical rehabilitation).

Recovery Services

The Recovery Service aims to:

• Develop meaningful engagement with service users, provide evidence-based interventions and promote recovery.
• Increase stability within the service user's lives, facilitate personal growth and provide opportunities for personal fulfilment.
• Provide a service that is sensitive and responsive to service user's cultural, spiritual and gender needs.
• Support the service user and his/her family/carers as required.
• Promote effective interagency working.
• Ensure effective risk assessment and management.

Service Principles of Care

• A self-contained team responsible for providing the full range of interventions.
• A single responsible medical officer who is an active member of the team.
• Treatment provided on a long-term basis with emphasis on continuity of care.
• Majority of services delivered in community.
• Emphasis on maintaining contact with service users and building relationships.
• Care Co-ordination provided by key worker and Recovery Team.
• An effective working caseload is based on `service user' need and resources.