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Speaker 1: Hello, Katie Wolf and three sixty online at Mix one

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Speaker 1: O four nine dot com. We learned yesterday that the

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Speaker 1: Northern Territory Primary Health Network has announced that near Me National,

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Speaker 1: in partnership with Larakia Nation, are going to be the

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Speaker 1: lead provider on the Darwin Adult Mental Health Center. Now

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Speaker 1: joining us on the line from the Northern Territory Primary

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Speaker 1: Health Network CEO Jill Year's leg Good morning to you, Jill.

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Speaker 2: Good morning, how are you today?

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Speaker 1: Very well?

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Speaker 2: Jill?

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Speaker 1: Firstly, what is near Me National?

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Speaker 2: Okay? Sorry? So me My are a they are a

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Speaker 2: mental health service provider that have been in operations since

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Speaker 2: about nineteen ninety eight. They're established originally in Melbourne at

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Speaker 2: the request of care as and family members for people

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Speaker 2: access to mental health services. But since that time they've

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Speaker 2: expanded across most of the states and territories of Australia.

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Speaker 1: Okay, And so they are going to be they're going

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Speaker 1: to be working in partnership with Larakia Nation and be

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Speaker 1: the lead provider at the Darwin Adult Mental Health Center.

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Speaker 1: Can you talk us through and sort of tell us

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Speaker 1: a little bit more about the center.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, So look, the center it's one of eight. So

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Speaker 2: the government made a commitment. The Commonwealth government made a

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Speaker 2: commitment in two thy nineteen that they were going to

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Speaker 2: roll out these mental health sites across Australia and there

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Speaker 2: are eight launch sites, each in a different state and territory.

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Speaker 2: So the Northern Territory has won and that's the Darwin

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Speaker 2: and the idea is that they are their new models,

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Speaker 2: their new models of one stop service access for adults

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Speaker 2: who are experiencing difficulty with mental health issues. It's really

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Speaker 2: building on the models the success that some of the

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Speaker 2: Headspace centers have had. So we've got access to younger

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Speaker 2: people and their families, but there was a real gap

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Speaker 2: it was felt for older adults.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it is such an important service for us to

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Speaker 1: be able to access and to be provided. How will

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Speaker 1: people will anybody be able to go there or what

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Speaker 1: will the process be in terms of being able to

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Speaker 1: go to that center?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, so the intended aain well actually the stated aim.

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Speaker 2: So the Department of Health Commonwealth has been very clear

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Speaker 2: about the expectations of these centers. So they are to

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Speaker 2: be operating seven days a week. They are to be

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Speaker 2: operating at an hour. So initially the one here in

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Speaker 2: jim we will operate between eleven am and eleven pm.

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Speaker 2: And yes, people can turn up to see someone and

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Speaker 2: talk to someone and from that initial contact a discussion

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Speaker 2: will be held about what's the best pathway to refer

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Speaker 2: that person onto.

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Speaker 1: Jill, where is this center going to be based exactly?

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Speaker 2: Well, we're not sure yet. So we're going to be

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Speaker 2: perhaps going to be part of the co designed process

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Speaker 2: and working with the community about where's the best site.

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Speaker 2: I mean, it needs to be in the community, so

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Speaker 2: it won't be based on the hospital site, but it

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Speaker 2: needs to be near enough the hospital should Indeed, we

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Speaker 2: need to be working with our partners in the anti

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Speaker 2: health department regarding transfers. But it also needs to be

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Speaker 2: accessible for people with public transports. Many of our population

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Speaker 2: do not have access to private transport and people need

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Speaker 2: to be able to access it as they go about

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Speaker 2: their daily business and not feel triumatized by doing so.

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Speaker 1: Jill, how soon are we anticipating that it's going to

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Speaker 1: be operational.

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Speaker 2: We are hoping and certainly we are working with the

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Speaker 2: providers that we will be operational by October to December

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Speaker 2: this calendar year. Now, I'm sure it won't be completely

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Speaker 2: up and running by them, but we are at least

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Speaker 1: Now, can you tell us a little bit more about

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Speaker 1: I suppose some of those services that you anticipate it

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Speaker 1: I know that there will be plenty of people out

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Speaker 1: there listening this morning who are wondering if it's going

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Speaker 2: Look, the intention is it's about how do we work

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Speaker 2: with the existing service providers in our communities, and we

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Speaker 2: conversations we have with families and their carers and people

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Speaker 2: So we actually have a whole suite of services already

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Speaker 2: will be able to do clinical triage, so they'll be

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Speaker 2: able to identify if a person has sorts of self harm,

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Speaker 2: if a person needs to see a GP, if a

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Speaker 2: mental health issues. A lift experience workers as we call them,

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Speaker 2: in the sector, and also thinking of an Aboriginal autocia

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Speaker 2: link people with appropriately culturally appropriate people to help support

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Speaker 2: what they need. Oftentimes, I think people's experience and interactions

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Speaker 2: with mental health services is complicated by their inability to

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Speaker 2: fully explain and explore what's going on for them.

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Speaker 1: Jill, are we finding here in the Northern Territory that

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Speaker 1: we have an increase in the number of people who

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Speaker 1: require those mental health services?

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Speaker 2: Certainly the feedb we've had from our partners in the

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Speaker 2: community and we've had from our partners in the Northern

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Speaker 2: Territory government is that the access for services has increases

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Speaker 2: and the impacts of COVID. I mean, whilst in the

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Speaker 2: Northern Territory they've not been the same as other areas,

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Speaker 2: there are certainly impacts in terms of job opportunities and employment,

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Speaker 2: and I think for a lot of the population it's

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Speaker 2: particularly complex and look, I would say there has been

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Speaker 2: an increase in access. I also think that's that people's

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Speaker 2: willingness to begin to talk about needing support. So it's

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Speaker 2: about how do we then we if we're seeing that

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Speaker 2: to that in a way that's respectful and appropriate.

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Speaker 1: Yeah? Absolutely, And I do think that, you know, I

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Speaker 1: hope that we are breaking down some of the stigma

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Speaker 1: which is attached to mental health issues. You know, I

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Speaker 1: think that realistically, we've got to look at this in

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Speaker 1: the same way that we look at any other health issue.

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Speaker 2: Oh absolutely. You know, if we look at the the

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Speaker 2: if we look at the what we would call the

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Speaker 2: burden of disease. I don't like that term, but if

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Speaker 2: we look at the from the you know, the World's

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Speaker 2: Health organization and most first world countries, they're burden of disease,

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Speaker 2: mental health is one of the top at least five

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Speaker 2: or ten. And yet we don't We've still got this

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Speaker 2: talk about it in our community. In DA when we

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Speaker 2: all of those people are vulnerable at risk. The other

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Speaker 2: that our population is actually a very young population, and

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Speaker 2: you know, that transition between youth and adulthood, which really

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Speaker 2: people's experience, and I think that you know, people are

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Speaker 2: beginning to reach out and access services in a much

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Speaker 2: more appropriate way, Jill, if you.

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Speaker 1: Know, what can we do to help a friend or

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Speaker 1: a family member or ourselves. You know, anybody that's listening

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Speaker 1: this morning that may be thinking, look, this center sounds great,

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Speaker 1: but it's still a while off opening, and they're just

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Speaker 1: wondering what they can do, or maybe we've got a

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Speaker 1: What can we do in those initial stages.

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Speaker 2: The first instance obviously always go to your primary health provider,

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Speaker 2: to your GP. If people have access to a GP

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Speaker 2: that would be the most sensible strategy. If people don't

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Speaker 2: you know, the Beyond Blue national website and the Lifeline

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Speaker 2: national website. There's also our local services. We also have

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Speaker 2: our headspace services here in Gawen. We also have some

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Speaker 2: other services which advertise regularly on TV. There's Team Health

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Speaker 2: who are funded by the Northern Territory government and we

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Speaker 2: are at the NTPH and we also have a mental

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Speaker 2: health website which is the www dot mental Health nt

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Speaker 2: dot com dot au and that lists all of our

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Speaker 2: services in the Northern Territory.

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Speaker 1: Well, Jill years Lee, the Northern Territory Primary Health Network CEO,

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Speaker 1: we really appreciate your time this morning. Thanks so very

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Speaker 1: much for having a chat with us.

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Speaker 2: No, thank you, and I'm glad to see you such

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Speaker 2: an active interest in this space. Thanks Katie, thank you.

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Speaker 1: And yeah, you know, I think that this is a

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Speaker 1: great announcement. Once this facility is up and running, it's

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Speaker 1: going to be incredibly helpful, I reckon for a number

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Speaker 1: of Territorians who obviously are suffering from mental health issues.

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Speaker 1: And as I said then in that discussion with Jill,

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Speaker 1: I do think that if there is anything that we

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Speaker 1: those stigmas that can be sometimes associated with mental health issues,

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Speaker 1: it's so incredibly important that we do so