Referrals open as new providers begin delivering Clinical Suicide Prevention Service
11 Dec 2024
Community Links Wellbeing is providing services in Wollondilly and Wingecarribee Shires, while One
Door Mental Health is providing services in Camden, Campbelltown, Liverpool, Fairfield and Bankstown
local government areas, after a period of transition from former provider Grand Pacific Health.
The Clinical Suicide Prevention Service provides free psychological therapies for people who:
• have continued suicidal ideation after discharge from acute services
• present at a GP clinic after a suicide attempt
• present to a GP with persistent suicidal ideation
Patients require a referral from either a GP or one of South Western Sydney Local Health District’s
mental health teams to access the service.
GPs can refer their patients to the service by contacting SWSPHN’s Mental Health Central Intake. Visit
the SWSPHN website for how to refer your patients.
Community Links Wellbeing is a not-for-profit community organisation working across Camden,
Wollondilly and Wingecarribee. It supports locals through community development, events, groups,
workshops, youth programs, crisis support, carer support, family support, allied health and mental health
services.
One Door Mental Health is a leading mental health provider specialising in anxiety and depression, and
severe and persistent mental illnesses such as schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, obsessive compulsive
disorder, post-traumatic stress disorder, psychosis and schizoaffective disorder and borderline
personality disorder.
South Western Sydney PHN CEO, Dr Keith McDonald PhD, said the Clinical Suicide Prevention Service
had provided accessible and sensitive individual psychological therapy services across the region since
July 2017.
Dr McDonald thanked Grand Pacific Health for its commitment to delivering the service during the past
almost two years, and welcomed Community Links Wellbeing and One Door Mental Health as the new
service providers.
“This service aims to help clients through the healing process with supports appropriate to their need.
This might include identifying treatment goals, safety planning, psychological therapy or referrals to
longer term services if needed.
“We’re looking forward to working with Community Links Wellbeing and One Door Mental Health to
ensure this service continues to provide effective and efficient care which meets the urgent needs of
people in our community at risk of suicide.”
• If you, or someone you know is having suicidal thoughts, talking about self-harm, or is noticeably in
serious distress, call triple 0 (000). Alternatively, contact the NSW Mental Health Access Line on
1800 011 511.
Find out more about the Clinical Suicide Prevention Service.