Table 2 Cluster sites and stratification factors
Cluster | Team/service | Organisation | Site | Strata | Team/service description |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Cluster 1 | Crisis assessment & treatment team | Monash Health | 1 | A | Crisis Assessment and Treatment Teams (CATTs) provide urgent assessment and short-term treatment to people in psychiatric crisis and play a key role in triaging admissions to hospital. |
Cluster 2 | Crisis assessment & treatment team | Monash Health | 2 | A | |
Cluster 3 | Mobile support and treatment service + Community Care Unit | Monash Health | 3 4 | B | Mobile Support and Treatment Teams (MSTs) provide intensive long-term support through assertive outreach to people with prolonged and severe mental illness with associated high levels of disability. Community Care Units (CCUs) provide medium to long-term residential rehabilitation in a home-like environment. |
Cluster 4 | Mobile support and treatment service + Community Care Unit | Monash Health | 5 6 | B | |
Cluster 5 | Community Mental Health Service | Monash Health | 7 | C | Community Mental Health Service (CMHS) provide non-urgent assessment, treatment, case management, and continuing care support to people living in the community over varying periods of time. |
Cluster 6 | Community Mental Health Service | Monash Health | 8 | C | |
Cluster 7 | Continuing Care | Monash Health | 9 | D | Continuing Care Teams (CCTs) provide non-urgent assessment, treatment, case management, and continuing care support to people living in the community over varying periods of time. |
Cluster 8 | Continuing Care | Monash Health | 10 | D | |
Cluster 9 | PARC – Adult + PARC – Extended | Mind Australia | 11 12 | E | PARC services (including youth, adult and extended PARCs) provide short-term residential support and treatment to assist in averting acute inpatient admission or facilitate earlier discharge. |
Cluster 10 | PARC – Youth | Mind Australia | 13 | E | |
Cluster 11 | PARC Ermha | Ermha | 14 | F | |
Cluster 12 | PARC Ermha | Ermha | 15 | F | |
Cluster 13 | Community outreach services | Mind Australia | 16 | G | Community Outreach Services provide a range of individualized psychosocial support and recovery services. |
Cluster 14 | Community outreach services site 1 Community outreach services site 2 | Ermha | 17 18 | G |