This website is an initiative of the Peninsula Area Mental Health Service, and Peninsula Psychiatric Disability and Support Services, Alliance
Its name takes its inspiration from a quote from Carl Jung “Who looks outside dreams, Who looks inside awakens”
In lives we are often searching for resources “outside”.
“OUTSIDE” - Our own service
- The constrictions of a waiting list
- The realm of our own experience
- The boundaries of illness
- The square!
we need resources, easily accessible up to date current resources!
This web site is for every one.
It will detail Alliance services and health and welfare services in a customised Infoxchange service seeker directory particular to the catchment areas of Peninsula Alliance boundaries.
It will be a resource to “Look Outside” and find services in order to support people in their local community . It will encourage workers and Participants to source other services with in the Alliance and more broadly general services available to the wider community.
“Looks Outside” will assist with sustainable community activities and socialization options.
"Studies show that up to twenty percent of the Australian population has had a psychiatric illness in the preceding year.This staggering statistic still does not convey the reality that people with psychiatric illness carry from day to day. Most carry this burden with a quiet dignity, borne out of suffering, necessity and aspiration. Looking inside can bring insight and awakening, but also a pain arising from unmet wants.
All too often these wants are overlooked by society and people with psychiatric illness may need something to magnify their voices. The Peninsula Mental Health Alliance is an organisation that aims to integrate services for people with a psychiatric illness. A service that "looks outside" is better able to meet the "inside" wants of its people. Dreaming of greater possibilities enables people and their workers to collaborate toward strategies that make a difference to lives. Integration of information is a means of making worker's jobs easier. It points us in a direction toward the person that can help here and now. It "dreams" wants into options and possibilities. Please use this Website freely and help join the outside with the inside."
Dr James Le Bas
Clinical Director of Community Mental Health Services
Peninsula Mental Health Services
