The Upper Hume Community Health Service (UHCHS) head office is based in Wodonga in North East Victoria. Our area includes the municipalities of Wodonga, Indigo, Towong and the Kiewa Valley portion of Alpine Shire. Our service area is part of the Department of Human Services Hume Region, which has a population of approximately 255,000. As well as our offices in Wodonga (5), UHCHS has outreach sites in the towns of Beechworth, Yackandandah, Mt Beauty and Tallangatta.
UHCHS seeks to promote total health care for all individuals in the community. We believe that good health is a complete state of physical, social and emotional well being. This can be achieved by a flexible service that is accountable, consumer driven and uses a broad range of individual and community services.
The vision of the Upper Hume Community Health Service are:
- To provide a comprehensive range of quality primary care services, which reflect the health, and needs of the communities in which we are situated.
- To actively promote wellness, that is the general physical, mental and social well being of communities through:
- Raising awareness of community health issues throughout our community.
- Encourage, promote and initiate research as related to community health.
- Encourage the development of people's responsibility for their own health and for the health of the whole community.
- Actively promote good health and work towards the prevention of ill health.
- To actively invite and encourage community participation in the management of programs and the delivery of health services.
- To act as an advocate on health and related issues to relevant bodies.
- To actively seek and expand and develop the service through exploring additional funding sources.
- To promote the visibility, availability and accessibility of the community health service.
Our structure consists of the following key service areas:
- Alcohol and Other Drugs
- Drug Diversion programs
- Counselling Consultancy and Continuing Care Program
- Methadone /Pharmacotherapies Program
- Needle and Syringe Program
- Drug Withdrawal Programs (including Home Based, Hospital & Outpatients)
- Parent Support Program
- Drink/ Driver Assessment & Education Program
- Counselling and Personal Support
- Behaviour Change /Anger Management
- Individual, Relationship and Family Counselling
- Generalist counselling
- Gamblers Help Program (Including Financial counselling)
- Domestic Violence Outreach & Family Violence
- Men's Health & Support Group
- Adolescent Counselling
- Rural Recovery Counselling
- Family, Relationships & Youth
- Regional Parenting
- ABCD
- Positive Parenting Telephone Service
- Relationship Education
- Youth Support
- School Focused Youth Service
- Highwater Theatre (At Risk Project)
- Rock & Water
- Community Health
- Community Transport (Mt Beauty only)
- Falls Prevention
- Health Promotion/ Education
- Physical Activity Programs
- Mental Wellness and Rehabilitation
- Psychosocial rehabilitation day program,
- Young people's rehabilitation program and
- Peer support program
- Administration & Finance
We operate from nine sites across the region and have approximately seventy staff. The majority of our programs and services are free of charge or attract a small fee. Our normal hours of operation are 9am - 5pm Monday to Friday but many of our support, health promotion and education programs run outside of these hours. For enquiries please call 0260 228888.
Upper Hume Community Health Service Locations
Regional Office
12 Stanley Street
Wodonga 3690
Phone (02) 6022 8888
Fax (02) 6024 5792
Mt Beauty
Lakeside Community Care
2 Lakeside Avenue
Mt Beauty 3699
Phone (03) 5754 4200
Fax (03) 5754 1002
Tallangatta
Community Centre
43 Towong Street
Tallangatta 3700
Phone (02) 6071 2499
Fax (02) 6071 2499
Yackandandah
Community Centre
High Street
Yackandandah 3749
Phone (02) 6027 1294
Fax (02) 6027 1743
Beechworth
Neighbourhood Centre
30 Ford Street
Beechworth 3747
Phone (03) 5728 3180
Fax (03) 5728 3181
