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25. Collaborative Care Arrangement Between Hunter New EnglandMental Health Services & Mental Health Non-GovernmentOrganizationsCollaborative Care Arrangement between Hunter New England Mental HealthServices & Mental Health Non-Government OrganisationsBarbara Stacy, Hunter New England Mental Health, Newcastle, Australia(Barbara.Stacy@hnehealth.nsw.gov.au)As the use of the Recovery concept in mental health results in greater deinstitutionalisation withmore mental health consumers living in the community, a key issue has emerged as to how theHunter New England Mental Health clinicians and the Non Government Organisation supportworkers can work together to adequately improve social inclusion and recovery for mental healthconsumers. This presentation traces the development processes from the simple Team CareModel presented in New York in 2009, through evaluation as presented in Berlin in 2011, to therefined and expanded current Collaborative Care Arrangement proposed for use by front lineservice deliveries. A large number of care providers were involved in preparation of thedocument representing many organisations and reflecting many delivery styles. The documentwas renamed to describe its intent.Collaborative Care Arrangement between Hunter New England Mental HealthServices & Mental Health Non-Government OrganisationsThanh-Nu Reeves, Hunter New England Local Health District, New South Wales, Australia(Thanh-Nu.Reeves@hnehealth.nsw.gov.au)The Collaborative Care Arrangement between Hunter New England Mental Health Services andMental Health Non-Government Organisations was first presented to the IALMH New YorkCongress as the Team Care Model. Since then evaluation workshops and surveys have guidedthe collaboration between Public Health clinicians and the NGO sector resulting in the currenttitle and document. To align with the strategic vision of Australia’s Mental Health Strategy andthe Council of Australian Governments National Action Plan on Mental Health 2006-2011 for amental health system that enables Recovery, the Collaborative Care Arrangement has explicitlyadopted the Recovery concept as the guiding principle. This presentation will demonstrate howthe two mental health sectors have overcome different value-laden applications of the Recoveryconcept toward identifying common ground for effective and efficient collaboration.67