Establishing new headspace services
Primary Heath Tasmania is overseeing the establishment of two new headspace services for Tasmania – a new headspace centre on Hobart’s eastern shore and an early psychosis youth service.
Primary Heath Tasmania is overseeing the establishment of two new headspace services for Tasmania – a new headspace centre on Hobart’s eastern shore and an early psychosis youth service.
The Australian Government has provided funding for a new headspace centre on Hobart’s eastern shore, and Primary Health Tasmania is working with commissioned service provider EACH and headspace National to establish the centre and associated services.
This new centre will be in addition to existing headspace centres in central Hobart, Launceston and Devonport and a satellite service in Burnie.
The new centre will be located at 120 Cambridge Road Bellerive, and it is expected to open by the end of 2025. Read our latest media release for more information.
More information about headspace services in Tasmania is available on Our Services Portal.
Primary Health Tasmania is overseeing the development of Tasmania’s first headspace Early Psychosis service for young people.
Psychosis is a term for a range of symptoms where a person’s beliefs, thoughts, feelings, senses and behaviours are altered. Psychosis can cause someone to misinterpret or confuse what’s going on around them.
A 2010 study estimated 64,000 Australians aged 18–64 experienced a psychotic illness and were in contact with public specialised mental health services each year. This equates to 5 cases per 1000 population.
Importantly, about 50 per cent of people who develop a psychotic disorder will do so by the time they are in their early 20s. This is one of the reasons early intervention is so important. You can read more about psychosis on Orygen’s website here.
Psychosis can be treated, and many people can make a good recovery.
Funded by the Australian Government, the headspace Early Psychosis service will provide early intervention treatment and support to young people aged 12 to 25 years who are at high risk of or actively experiencing their first episode of psychosis.
It will use Orygen’s Early Psychosis Prevention and Intervention Centre (EPPIC) model.
The free and confidential service will be established by commissioned service provider Each. Each will work with young people, local communities, Primary Health Tasmania, Orygen, headspace National, and Tasmania’s existing headspace service providers to establish and operate the new service.