NALHN provides comprehensive mental health care services for youth (aged 18 to 24), adults and older people living in Adelaide’s north-eastern suburbs. 

Our services are provided by medical, nursing, allied health, lived experience, non-clinical and administration staff through community mental health centres and hospitals, and to clients in their own homes.

If you feel you may need mental health support and have never accessed a mental health service before, we encourage you to speak with your GP who can discuss available options and refer you to the most appropriate service.

If you or someone you know is in immediate danger or experiencing a mental health crisis, please call the Mental Health Triage Service on 131 465 (available 24/7) or call Triple Zero (000).

Adult mental health services

We provide a range of specialist services for adults, focusing on recovery, individualised treatment and community support for people aged 18 to 65 years in the NALHN catchment area.

Emergency and hospital care

  • Emergency department mental health teams: Specialist mental health clinicians are located within the emergency departments at both Modbury and Lyell McEwin Hospitals and provide specialised assessment, treatment and care pathways for mental health clients who present to the emergency departments.
  • Inpatient services: Mental health clients can either be admitted to inpatient services in a planned manner through community mental health services or through an emergency department.
  • Hospital In the Home: Service is available for clients that have supports that can enable them to complete their hospital stay at home with mental health clinician support to meet their individual care requirements.

Consultation Liaison Service

Provides mental health care and support for patients admitted to general medical and surgical wards at Modbury and Lyell McEwin Hospitals who have co-occurring mental health needs.

Perinatal mental health service

The service provides collaborative care and support for women and their families throughout pregnancy and the postnatal journey. The team works closely with antenatal, birthing, postnatal communities and non-government services to support growing families throughout their changing needs.

Adult community and rehabilitation services

  • Community mental health services: Offer acute care and continuing care coordination, specialist outpatient clinics, medication support, and individual or group therapy for people aged 18 to 65 years:
    • Northern Community Mental Health
    • North East Community Mental Health
  • Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) group programs: Specialised 12-week (Road Maps) and 24-week (Dialectical Behaviour Therapy Skills) fee-free recovery group programs for adults diagnosed with BPD, accessed via a referral from a professional support person (such as a GP, psychologist, or psychiatrist) submitted to your local community mental health team.
  • Community rehabilitation programs (The Gully): Offers goal-directed group and individual programs using evidence-based occupational therapy to help consumers build daily living skills and routines.
  • Wondakka Community Rehabilitation Centre (CRC): A 20-bed home-like residential setting that bridges the gap between hospital and independent living, focusing on practical life skills and mental health recovery. The work of the CRC focuses on supporting clients to stay well, improve their mental health and build practical skills to transition to independent living.
  • Modbury Mental Health Rehabilitation Unit (MMHRU): A modern, 24-bed specialised unit supporting adults who require longer stays in hospital for targeted therapy and rehabilitation within a specially designed living space.

Older persons mental health services (OPMHS)

OPMHS are an essential part of the South Australian mental health system, aiming to support older people in maximising their mental health. OPMHS is committed to providing specialist mental health services to patients across all local health networks.

NALHN provides a range of tertiary mental health services for older adults with psychiatric illness, including assessment, care and treatment across multiple sites in the northern and north-eastern Adelaide regions in the NALHN older persons catchment area.

Currently, NALHN OPMHS provides three (3) services:

  • Modbury Older Persons Unit (Modbury Hospital) is a modern 20-bed acute multidisciplinary inpatient unit providing specialised mental health care for older adults, who require admission to hospital for care and treatment of their mental disorder.
  • Northgate Neurobehavioural Unit, is part of a 12 bedded SA wide service situated in northern Adelaide that provides care for people experiencing severe Behavioural and Psychological Symptoms of Dementia (BPSD). This is a transitional service that supports residents and their families/carers during a particularly complex time, with a view to them moving on to a care setting more specific to their needs as their dementia journey progresses.
  • OPMH community team provides acute and continuing care liaison, care co-ordination, home assessments, and discipline-specific therapies. Based at Modbury Hospital, the team covers all the northern Adelaide area, and has a satellite outpatient clinic at Park Terrace, Salisbury.
  • Aligning to the OPMH community services, the Residential Aged Care in Reach Service (REACH Service), specialises in supporting residential care facilitates provide care for residents who have been referred to the Older Persons Community team. The multidisciplinary team provide direct care and also facilitate expert education for the facilities in which the person resides.

Private practice clinics

Each mental health community site offers private practice medical consultations for referred consumers, which are bulk billed through Medicare.

  • Northern Community Mental Health (Salisbury)
  • North East Community Mental Health (Modbury)
  • Older Persons Community Mental Health (Modbury)

SA Ambulance Service and SA Police Co-Responder Teams

Mental health nurses work with paramedics or police to provide supports across the NALHN catchment to people in crisis this includes home visits to provide trauma informed least restrictive care to enable people to remain within their homes where it is safe to do so.