Our Services

Nexus is engaged in a range of workforce capacity building activities. The capacity building service strategies applied by Nexus fall under five key headings or domains. Each of the domains do not function in isolation but intersect and work in conjunction with one another. Nexus is:

• Advocate
• Sector Informant
• Strategic Thinker
• Capacity Builder
• Sector Connector

Through its work, Nexus seeks to achieve better outcomes for people living with co-occurring mental illness and substance use or addiction, their families, carers and supporters.

It intends to do this by

• Creating a more skilled, capable and confident workforce; and
• Raising the awareness and profile of the need for integrated treatment/care for co-occurring mental illness and substance use or addiction.

Nexus work is grouped into these five domains:

 

insert image	Advocate	Nexus plays the role of advocate by influencing and advocating at the governmental, organisational and individual levels to change practice, policies and perceptions
	Sector Informant	Nexus plays the role of sector informant by disseminating critical information, including information related to best practice, sector events and capacity building opportunities, to the MH and AOD sectors
	Strategic Thinker	Nexus plays the role of strategic thinker by contributing and informing what leading practice in integrated treatment and care for co-occurring mental illness and substance use/addiction looks like
	Capacity Builder	Nexus plays the role of capacity builder by improving confidence, skills and capabilities of the MH and AOD workforce
	Sector Connector	Nexus plays the role of sector connector by encouraging collaboration between services in the provision of integrated treatment and care for people living with co-occurring mental illness and substance use or addiction and the broader public health sector.

At Nexus the team provide services to enhance workforce capability across state-funded mental health and alcohol and other drug sectors.  Nexus is auspiced by St Vincent's Hospital Melbourne.

Nexus works with a range of agencies within the municipalities of:

• Yarra
• Boroondara
• Nillumbik
• Banyule

The work that Nexus does is supported and guided by a range of key policy, legislative and service sector guides as directed by the Victorian State Government, such as:

 

• Royal Commission into Victoria's Mental Health System (RCVMHS) - Recommendations 35 and 36
• Mental Health and Wellbeing Act 2022
• Integrated Care - The Guidance
• Our workforce, our future
• Mental Health Transformational Plan - Priority 7 (p7) - Integrated treatment and care for people living with co-occurring mental illness and substance use or addiction