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Social Rx®
Social Rx® is a ‘social prescribing’ service that addresses the non-clinical unmet needs that get in the way of health and wellbeing. Some examples include: Social Rx helps participants find and access resources that are already available in the community. The program involves comprehensive needs assessment, customised person-centred goal planning, linking people to locally based…
Louise finds that Social Prescribing reduces her drinking AND smoking
Louise struggles daily with an alcohol addiction. She tries to keep her battle private, but over the years her addictions have gradually overtaken and coloured most of her life. Her work has become spasmodic and her contact with friends and family was diminishing. Louise’s GP suggested that social prescribing might help and asked if she…
Social Prescribing helps Sylvia grow a new social network
Sylvia is desperately lonely. Now aged 70, she has watched by as her social circle has slowly diminished. Living in a rural community can be isolating, especially so given Sylvia’s mental health concerns. With seemingly all her friends either moving away or passing away, Sylvia felt that her life was at a crossroads. She was…
Well Together®
Our Well Together® groups provide the vital social element in our social prescribing programs. They are specialised groups offering supported social participation to build wellbeing, inclusion and resilience. Each group course is designed around activities such as art or cooking classes, yoga, gardening, dance, photography and more. Well Together facilitates the development of communication skills…
Plus Social® for injured workers
Plus Social is the first social prescribing program specifically designed for injured workers and the program’s rigorous reporting and independently audited results has been a valuable contribution to the emerging evidence base for social prescribing models. Plus Social for injured workers recognises and addresses the psychosocial needs that can develop through the stress and isolation…
Plus Inclusion
Plus Inclusion is an innovation project to increase effectiveness within the Workers Compensation system in New South Wales and was funded by the icare Foundation (the social investment arm of icare NSW – the state funder of workers insurance). Working with injured workers, along with case managers, scheme agents, nominated treating doctors and icare staff…
Plus Social®
Operating throughout the Gold Coast LGA since 2018, this implementation of the Plus Social program has been tailored by PCCS for clients who are significantly impacted by their mental health. The core social prescribing program is designed to address our clients’ unmet psychosocial needs and is supported by a PCCS service specialist providing clinical care…
SKillness®
PCCS, working as part of the Living Well in Northern Sydney Partnership, delivered a new model of localised social impact and business engagement to address the topic of workplace mental health and ‘vocational recovery’. In the phases of design that followed, local business leaders and individuals with lived experience contributed to co-design of concepts and…
PCCS social prescribing works for Corey
Due to a work-related injury two years ago, Corey underwent shoulder reconstruction, hip replacement and hernia operations. Following Corey’s injury, his employer offered him light duties for 12 months. However, on completion of the 12 months, his employment was terminated on medical grounds due to being unable to return to his previous role as an…