About this consultation:

LELAN (the SA Lived Experience Leadership & Advocacy Network) has been engaged by the Office of the Chief Psychiatrist (OCP) in collaboration with Southern Adelaide Local Health Network (SALHN), to lead a targeted consultation process to hear the perspectives, interests and priorities of different people on the potential future mental health use of the Southern Intermediate Care Centre (SICC) building.
 
The consultation process will help explore how the former SICC may be best utilised to meet the mental health needs and expectations of the community living in the southern metropolitan area. A SICC Consultation Brief can be accessed here, which provides background on the consultation process and some options for consideration.
 
People are invited to contribute via this online survey, by attending a focus group (face-to-face and online options available) or through arranging an online 1:1 or group interview with the LELAN team. (Registration for all options can be made by clicking here).
 
It is important that we hear from people who have had contact with the previous SICC, those who have a connection to mental health services in the South as service users, carers or service providers, and others who would like to contribute to exploring how it could be used in the future. This includes people who have:
·        Stayed at the SICC (consumers).
·        Cared for someone who has stayed at the SICC (carers, family, kin and other supporters of choice).
·        Worked there in various roles, including allied health, clinical and lived experience (peer) workforces.
·        Referred people to the SICC, supported people who have used the SICC and/or interacted with it in other ways.
·        Insights and experiences relevant to this work that we need to hear, including how a ‘sub-acute’ residential mental health service could be used.

This consultation survey will close Friday September 29th 2023.
 
*Please note: LELAN's role in this consultation is to hear from people, gather information and present what has been heard. Final decisions about the future use of the SICC lie with the SALHN Board and the Department of Health.  This consultation seeks to identify the best mental health use for the building, but the decision-makers also need to consider non-mental health uses, including the continuation of the current DHS arrangements of it being used as an NDIS transition service.
Please note that as an organisation LELAN is committed to including diverse perspectives and ensuring that various identities and experiences that people bring to the lived/living experience community are recognised. We will not disclose personal and/or identifying information about a person without their consent or in a way that they do not agree with. You have the option of providing no response if uncomfortable or unsure of disclosing this information.

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* 1. Your details (optional):

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* 2. Some information about the way you personally identify (please tick as many as apply):

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* 3. Do you, or have you in the past, lived or worked in the Southern Adelaide metropolitan area?

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* 4. Have you had direct contact with the former Southern Intermediate Care Centre (SICC)? This may be as a person who has stayed there, as a carer, family, kin and/or supporter of choice of someone who has stayed there, a staff member, a referral partner or some other connection?

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