PICS supports over 2,000 people living with severe mental illness over the last two years
One Door’s team of Primary Integrated Care Supports (PICS) credentialed mental health nurses and peer workers have supported over 2,100 people living with the complexities of severe and persistent mental to live everyday lives. Today the PICS team are working with over 1,000 people to get access to health services, housing, Centrelink payments, guardianship, alcohol and other drug services, get fitter and become more social.
PICS is a person-centred service, so no two stories are the same. Nurses work with each person to develop individual collaborative care plans.\
Here's just one of the many great PICS stories – A women aged 62 presented with first episode psychosis. Fiona* had become isolated and had no significant people in her life. The nurse with the peer worker, GP and psychiatrist supported her to access a Centrelink pension, get on the NSW Housing priority housing list and subsequently secure accommodation. Fiona’s psychosis has now been resolved with short term antipsychotic medications and building supportive relationships around her. She is now financially independent, secure and has affordable housing. She now walks and jogs along the Bay Run every morning and meets a number of people she stops and talks to each day. Fiona has also enrolled in an Arts Degree. She now has good insight into the factors that contributed to her psychosis and is doing substantial work with a psychotherapist.
PICS is funded by Central and Eastern Sydney Primary Health Network.
If you live in Central and Eastern Sydney Primary Health Network area and want to find out more about PICS, contact PICS Manager, Gabrielle Kay, 0437 978 279.