{"id":4244,"date":"2021-11-17T10:36:03","date_gmt":"2021-11-17T00:36:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/staff-news\/?p=4244"},"modified":"2022-07-26T09:48:19","modified_gmt":"2022-07-25T23:48:19","slug":"safe-space-mh-1121","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/staff-news\/newsletters\/mhb\/2021\/11\/safe-space-mh-1121","title":{"rendered":"The Safe Space has launched and is here for you!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-1 nonhundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling\" style=\"--awb-border-radius-top-left:0px;--awb-border-radius-top-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-left:0px;--awb-flex-wrap:wrap;\" ><div class=\"fusion-builder-row fusion-row\"><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-0 fusion_builder_column_1_1 1_1 fusion-one-full fusion-column-first fusion-column-last\" style=\"--awb-bg-size:cover;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-column-has-shadow fusion-flex-column-wrapper-legacy\"><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-1\"><h4><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-4255 size-medium lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/staff-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/25\/2022\/01\/safe-space-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/staff-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/25\/2022\/01\/safe-space-200x133.jpg 200w, https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/staff-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/25\/2022\/01\/safe-space-225x150.jpg 225w, https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/staff-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/25\/2022\/01\/safe-space-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/staff-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/25\/2022\/01\/safe-space-400x267.jpg 400w, https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/staff-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/25\/2022\/01\/safe-space.jpg 486w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 300px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 300\/200;\" \/>CARING | UNDERSTANDING | EMPOWERING<\/h4>\n<div class=\"mceTemp\">\n<p>At the Safe Space we support people to overcome distress by offering a calm, comfortable, and healing environment away from the emergency department, and with caring, clinical and peer support available.<\/p>\n<p>What to expect: The Safe Space has a chill-out space, a lounge and kitchen area and access to a garden outdoors. The space is designed to support your wellbeing and recovery. The Safe Space team consists of Peer Workers and a Senior Mental Health Clinician. Peer Workers are skilled health workers with lived experience of mental health challenges and recovery.<\/p>\n<p>Using their unique lenses of lived and professional experience, the team will collaborate with you to find a path to wellbeing that works for you.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Safe Space is open:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Monday to Thursday 2.00pm\u00a0\u2013 8.00pm\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Friday 5.00pm \u2013 8.00pm\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In exciting new four new \u201cSafe Space\u201d hubs will soon be accessible in Metro North.The four new Safe Spaces at\u00a0Caboolture, RBWH and TPCH catchments are Safe Space hubs that will be operated by the already existing mental health hub community service providers, Stride, Communify and NEAMI respectively, and will undertake an establishment period, before opening in March 2022. The Redcliffe Safe Space hub will go out to tender in January 2022 and is expected to establish in time to open in June 2022.<\/p>\n<p>Safe Space can be accessed by people presenting to the Emergency department at The Prince Charles Hospital, or by contacting the MHCALL phoneline on 1300&nbsp;642&nbsp;255 and enquiring about Safe Space.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"awb-gallery-wrapper awb-gallery-wrapper-1 button-span-no\"><div style=\"margin:-5px;--awb-bordersize:0px;\" class=\"fusion-gallery fusion-gallery-container fusion-grid-3 fusion-columns-total-2 fusion-gallery-layout-grid fusion-gallery-1\"><div style=\"padding:5px;\" class=\"fusion-grid-column fusion-gallery-column fusion-gallery-column-3 hover-type-none\"><div class=\"fusion-gallery-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/staff-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/25\/2022\/01\/safe-space2.jpg\" rel=\"noreferrer\" data-rel=\"iLightbox[gallery_image_1]\" class=\"fusion-lightbox\" target=\"_self\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/staff-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/25\/2022\/01\/safe-space2.jpg\" width=\"250\" height=\"166\" alt=\"\" title=\"safe-space2\" aria-label=\"safe-space2\" class=\"img-responsive wp-image-4246 lazyload\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/staff-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/25\/2022\/01\/safe-space2-200x133.jpg 200w, https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/staff-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/25\/2022\/01\/safe-space2.jpg 250w\" data-sizes=\"(min-width: 2200px) 100vw, (min-width: 784px) 430px, (min-width: 712px) 645px, (min-width: 640px) 712px,\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 250px; 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