Alfred HOPE – Suicide prevention

Clinical service overview

The Alfred HOPE team is a part of the Alfred Mental & Addiction Health Service, based at Alfred Hospital. Alfred HOPE is available from 8am - 4pm, 7 days a week to provide outreach clinical, therapeutic, lived experience and practical support to individuals and their families and carers living in the inner south area of Melbourne.

Our services include:

• Weekly outreach appointments for assessment and treatment
• Phone support outside of appointments
• Suicide prevention and safety planning
• Up to three brief therapeutic intervention sessions
• Practical psychosocial interventions to assist individuals in developing meaningful activities and connections to overcome challenges and recover a life worth living
• Lived experience support from someone who has recovered from suicidal experiences
• Support for family/carers offered by someone with experience of caring for someone in mental health crisis
• Single session family consultations

We are a multi-disciplinary team made up of:

• Social Workers
• Psychiatric Nurses
• Psychosocial Support Workers
• Lived Experience Workers
• Consultant Psychiatrist
• Psychiatrist registrar
• Family Therapist
• Brief Intervention Therapists

Referrals

Alfred HOPE welcomes referrals from staff based at The Alfred and within the Alfred Mental and Addiction Health service in addition to consumers, family/carers, GPs, Psychologists and other primary health agencies (e.g. family violence teams).

To refer, phone Alfred Psychiatric Triage on 1300 363 746