The WentWest Stories project captures the positive impact our staff, initiatives and partners have on the health of our community.
Sharing Stories from our People, Programs and Providers
This project showcases stories across our community, partnerships and workplace as we work towards a shared vision of improved health care in Western Sydney. The objective of WentWest Stories is to highlight the vital work of our communities and primary care providers in addressing the health priorities in our region; Aboriginal health, aged care, alcohol and other drugs, child and family health, chronic conditions, COVID-19, mental health and population health. Stories celebrate the hard work of WentWest staff and the efforts of Western Sydney general practices and care providers to create a collaborative ‘one Western Sydney’ health system. This collection of stories showcases work from both past and present services, programs and providers.
Western Sydney has one of the largest urban Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander populations in the nation. Improving and supporting Aboriginal health in Western Sydney is one of our health priorities for the region. Our stories are anonymised for privacy reasons and any images that have been used are not of the actual person, however, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander viewers are warned that the stock images used may contain images of deceased persons.
Commissioning services that support people to move towards a drug and addiction free life is at the core of our work in the AOD area. Read success stories from our AOD providers:
- Community Restorative Centre (CRC): Trent’s story
- Dunlea Youth Off The Streets (YOTS): Darrel’s story
- Dunlea YOTS: Pari’s story
- headfyrst: Carlos’s story
- headfyrst: Max’s story
- headfyrst: Ramon’s story
- Odyssey House: Bryan’s story
- Odyssey House: Sharon’s story
- We Help Ourselves, Opioid Substitution To Abstinence Residential (OSTAR) program: Eli’s story
Improving the health and wellbeing of our aging population is one of our key priority areas. Our aim is to improve services for older people in the community and those living in Residential Aged Care Facilities (RACFs). Read how we’re supporting older Australians access care:
Western Sydney has one of the fastest growing populations in the country, and WentWest works closely with providers to ensure the best health outcomes for families and children. A particular focus of our work is on early childhood years. Read about some of our unique initiatives:
WentWest has been working closely with partners to develop strategies that address chronic disease prevention and management in Western Sydney through better coordination and integration between primary and acute services. Read about the success of our partnership programs:
Western Sydney has been greatly affected by COVID-19. Amidst the challenges of the pandemic, WentWest has seen an opportunity to develop collaborative care models and expand mental health services.
Commissioning quality, timely, culturally appropriate and affordable mental health care continues to be a priority area for WentWest. Read about the impact our mental health services are making in our region:
- Bilingual Hospital 2 Home (H2H): Margherit’s story
- Commonwealth Psychosocial Support (CPS) program: Lindsay’s story
- Head to Health: How a Modern Mental Health Service is Responding in Western Sydney – video
- headfyrst: Max’s story
- headfyrst: Ramon’s story
- Help2WIN: Logan’s story
- Hospital 2 Home (H2H): Claire’s story
- Medicare Mental Health Centre (formerly Head to Health): Hawa’s story
- Medicare Mental Health Centre (formerly Head to Health): Pete’s story
- National Psychosocial Support (NPS) program: Ziggy’s story
- NPS: Sonia’s story
- Primary Mental Health Care service (PMHC): Henry’s story
- PMHC: Naomi’s story
- PMHC: Yana’s story
- Recovery College: Ishmael’s story
- Recovery College: Marie and Alice’s story
- Safe Space: Amelia’s story
- Safe Space: Victoria’s story
- Safe Space: Lorna’s story
- Safe Space: Providing a Safe Space Outside of Emergency Departments – video
- Youth Enhanced Support Service (YESS): Jayda’s story
WentWest’s End of Life and Palliative Care team provide educational training and work closely with primary care and palliative care service providers to facilitate integration, information sharing and streamlined pathways of care. These partnerships aim to give communities greater choices at home for palliative care services.
Read about the impact of this program:
We’re proud of the diverse population in our region and support a variety of services and programs to meet the health needs of all members of our community. Read about our services supporting culturally and linguistically diverse communities in our region:
- The NSW Service for the Treatment And Rehabilitation of Torture and Trauma Survivors (STARTTS): Aidah’s story
- STARTTS: Anita’s story
- STARTTS: Atur’s story
- STARTTS, South Sudanese Youth Ambassador Program: Tohan’s story
- STARTTS: Mental Health Service Designed to Support Diverse Communities – video
- Bilingual Hospital 2 Home (H2H): Margherit’s story
- Safe Space: Amelia’s story
We’re working with partners to ensure that value-based health care can be delivered in community to relieve the pressure on hospital emergency departments. Read how patients are receiving community based urgent care:
Information is correct as of 10 March 2025.