Commonwealth Psychosocial Support Program
A Care Coordinator to help you connect with services you need, and a Support Facilitator will assist with practical activities to achieve your goals. Here’s some of the things they can assist with:
Social Isolation: We offer strategies for coping with anxiety, connections to your community, including groups, and tools for building relationships with friends and family.
Peer Connection: Meet with others who have experienced mental health issues through our Kindred Clubhouse.
Drug or Alcohol Issues: Support to address any problematic alcohol or drug use that you feel is affecting your health, relationships, ability to work or study.
Housing Assistance: Get help connecting to housing services, completing housing applications, and support to maintain your current housing situation.
Community Access: Learn how to use public transport to get out and about in the community.
Cost of Living: Access affordable food, get help with menu planning, and find easy meal ideas. We can connect you with financial counsellors to plan a budget and ensure you are receiving eligible concessions on your utility bills.
Centrelink: We can assist you to explore your eligibility for Centrelink payments and help guide you through the process for any issues you may be having with your payments.
Legal Matters: Our dedicated lawyer in our Legal Clinic may be able to provide assistance for any legal matters you are facing.
Building Routines: Assistance with creating day-to-day routines or exploring work and study pathways.
Key features:
Care Coordination: The program offers care coordinators to help navigate and access various services and supports, including assistance with daily living activities, accessing NDIS, housing, and employment.
Support Facilitation: A support Facilitator will work closely with clients and their care teams and to help you with the practical steps to achieve your goals.
Peer Support: The Kindred Clubhouse model offers a safe place to share experiences through peer-to-peer support and to be part of a community where clients can be involved in the structure and development of services to meet the needs of people with a psychosocial disability.
Trauma-Informed: Support is delivered using trauma-informed practices, recognising the impact of trauma on mental health and ensuring that services are safe and respectful.
Flexible Support: We provide timely assistance when needed. This includes outreach services in the home or the community, or telehealth style services for those who may find it otherwise difficult to access support.
Individual and Group Support: Services are delivered through one-on-one support, group activities, and community engagement. This approach ensures that individuals receive the type of support that best suits their needs. Inclusive and Culturally Sensitive: The CPS program is designed to be inclusive and sensitive to the needs of diverse communities, including, Culturally and Linguistically Diverse people, First Nations people, and the LGBTQIA+ community
Referral into the CPS program
Referrals may come from a range of sources including medical practitioners, self-referral, family/carers and support workers etc.
Regardless of who identifies the consumer as potentially benefiting from the CPS program, all referrals must come through SEMPHN Access and Referral (A&R).
For more information or to make a referral, please contact:
SEMPHN Access & Referral
Phone: 1800 862 363 (8:30am - 4:30pm weekdays)
The Commonwealth Psychosocial Support (CPS) program is supported by funding from South Eastern Melbourne Primary Health Network through the Australian Government’s PHN Program and delivered by Mentis Assist in partnership with Kindred Clubhouse.
