Lifeline Central West has been supported with additional funding to ensure people living with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in NSW’s central west have access to vital mental health support.
NSW Minister for Mental Health Rose Jackson has approved an additional grant of $20,000 to the service to help community members struggling with trauma find essential support and connection.
Lifeline Central West is the representative body of Western PTSD Support and will use the funding to:
1. Recruit qualified and local clinical facilitators, reducing the need and cost to bring Sydney-based facilitators up to the community
2. Establish a second support group, designed as a peer-led programme connecting lived-experience volunteers to the group
3. Promote the new group to the wider healthcare community
4. Expand the service to a broader geography and increase the number of meetings held
Western PTSD Support aims to improve local mental health outcomes and ensure timely access to mental health and social supports services for people living with PTSD in the region.
Lifeline Central West, provides services supporting people with complex needs in rural and remote communities, including those experiencing homelessness and other forms of disadvantage.