By LACHLAN MOORHEAD
A RENOWNED mental health and addiction service has today officially opened its doors in Casey.
While it’s been operational for roughly six month, EACH Social and Community Health formally opened its new centre in Narre Warren on Wednesday afternoon, in the same building where Headspace launched just a few weeks ago.
EACH’s services will now be extended into south-east Melbourne with Wednesday’s official launch of the new Narre Warren site, while connected group Substance Use Recover (SURe) is now also offering its services in Cranbourne.
In the next 10 years the population of Cardinia Shire is projected to grow by 60 per cent, while the City of Casey is expected to grow by by 26 per cent.
EACH CEO Peter Ruzyla said the south-east catchment had been identified as a growth corridor with increasing needs for services.
“Alcohol and drug use are often co-occurring conditions along with mental health, trauma, gambling, poor physical health, crime and poor quality of life,” Mr Ruzyla said.
“The sites will provide individualised outreach services to consumers, assisting with their recovery journey.”
EACH’s programs provide a tailored approach to meet the individual support needs of participants.
“People who are coming to seek a service are actually coming as people, rather than a client, or a diagnosis, or an assessment,” Mr Ruzyla said.
“And so it’s really important for us to recognise that our service needs to respond to people, as people.”
For more information, visit www.each.com.au
