ermha outreach

Ermha’s Outreach programs provide support to people with a mental illness in their homes and communities. “Homes” can include private rental, public housing, living with family or friends, living in a boarding house, or other types of accommodation.

The way we understand and think about mental illness is changing. People are learning that they can recover from a mental illness and go on to build supportive relationships, contribute to their communities and lead life as they wish to. Getting on the path to recovery, even when symptoms persist, puts clients back in control of their lives.

Helping people to get started along a new road is one of the things we do best. Outreach staff has supported thousands of people as they discover a new sense of hope and begin the process of change. We understand that a mental illness is often accompanied by anxiety, loneliness and isolation. It can affect relationships and careers as well as a person’s sense of belonging and self-worth. In fact, a mental illness can be overwhelming so it is often difficult to know how to start getting better.

Ermha Outreach
• Supports clients in their homes and communities
• Provides one-to-one support
• Visits clients regularly, generally weekly
• Assists clients to achieve their goals

Our main aim is to develop and deliver structured social and living skills programs that help re-establish abilities in common aspects of everyday life.

These can include
• managing money and financial transactions
• cooking
• healthy living skills
• personal care
• caring for one’s home environment,
• making and keeping social and recreational contacts
• relating to friends, family and people in the wider community

Each client, together with a support worker, creates what we call an Individual Recovery Support Plan (ISP). This plan lays out a client’s goals and ways to achieve them. With their goals in mind clients are better able to measure their own progress and stay focused on the results they want to achieve. Our support workers aim to develop relationships with clients based on mutual trust and a desire for positive change.

Referrals to Ermha Outreach are made by clinical professionals and other support agencies. We also accept self referrals and referrals from friends, family and carers.

Download the Ermha Outreach brochure as a pdf