Youth Mental Health Services
headspace services for young people aged 12-25 with mild to moderate mental illness, drug and alcohol, sexual health and employment services, in a youth friendly environment.
Youth Enhanced Support Service (YESS) for young people aged 12- 25 years with, or at risk of, severe mental illness. This includes people with bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, borderline personality disorder, early psychosis, and severe depression and anxiety.
Primary and Community Care Services (PCCS) Access Plus Program provides short term individual and face-to-face psychological sessions for children and young people of all ages with mild to moderate mental illness or who are at risk of suicide or self-harm.
How to access the services
headspace
People can self-refer to headspace, and direct referrals can also be made by GPs:
- Chatswood Centre: 02 8021 3668
- Brookvale Centre: 02 9937 6500
Youth Enhanced Support Service
Direct referral: 1800 937 776
Website: Uniting Youth Enhanced Support Service (YESS): Northern Sydney
Primary and Community Care Services (PCCS) Access Plus program requires a GP / Psychiatrist referral to Medicare Mental Health – please see below referral details.
GPs and Psychiatrists can also refer to any of the above services via Medicare Mental Health (MMH), using any of the following:
- Phone: 1800 595 212 (Mon–Fri, 8:30am – 5:00pm, except public holidays)
- Email: nswintake@pccs.org.au
- HealthLink EDI: nsydmmhc
- Referral form (PDF)
- Referral form (RTF template for Best Practice and Medical Director)
- Important: Do not open or view this template before importing into your clinical software. Opening the template in Word or your internet browser will corrupt the file, requiring you to download it again. You will need to right-click, copy and save or drag the .RTF template onto your desktop. Please read the instructions below on importing .RTF templates into Best Practice and Medical Director.
- Instructions for importing templates into Best Practice
- Instructions for importing templates into Medical Director
- Important: Do not open or view this template before importing into your clinical software. Opening the template in Word or your internet browser will corrupt the file, requiring you to download it again. You will need to right-click, copy and save or drag the .RTF template onto your desktop. Please read the instructions below on importing .RTF templates into Best Practice and Medical Director.