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Baptcare Home Care
Packages
Collaboration to improve
outcomes for consumers, carers
and professionals
Who is Baptcare?
Baptcare have been providing care and
services to the community for over 70 years.
• We are a not-for-profit organisation
• Across Victoria and Tasmania
• Our services include support to:
– older persons,
– Children and families
– people with a disability
– and the disadvantaged.
Baptcare – Hume Region
Community Packages
Baptcare deliver 1572 Home Care Packages (HCP’s)
across Victoria & Tasmania
Hume Region program has 2 offices located in Wallan & Chiltern
providing 114 HCP’s across Hume Region covering the following
areas:
– Benalla
˗ Greater Shepparton
– Indigo
˗ Wodonga
– Mansfield
˗ Mitchell
– Moira
˗ Murrindindi
– Strathbogie
- Wangaratta
What is a Home Care Package?
Government funded program aimed at
• Assisting people to remain living at home for as long as
possible
• supporting the person having choice and flexibility in the
way that care and support is provided at home.
Collaboration
• Takes work, effort and commitment to achieve true
collaboration
• Working together to complete a task and achieve shared
goals
• deep, collective determination to reach an identical
objective.
BANC PASS
What does it stand for?
Baptcare ACAS Neuropsychiatry Collaboration:
Partners across Service Sections
A collaborative model of care to support those with
Younger Onset Dementia and their families
Who are these organisations?
Neuropsychiatry Unit
Baptcare
ACAS
NPU
ACAS
Baptcare
ACAS:
Assessment & Eligibility
We can facilitate this
Pathway through
Collaboration
NPU:
Diagnosis/
Specialist knowledge
Education/training role
We need referral
sources
BAPTCARE:
Packages/
Case Managers
We want professional
Development for
This specialised group
Case Study
Mrs C
• NPU Assessment  ACAS Referral 
Declines initial home supports
Mr P
• NPU Assessment  ACAS Assessment
 Baptcare Home Care Package
JO ANNE BEVILACQUA
Senior Clinician | Social Worker
Neuropsychiatry Unit
Royal Melbourne Hospital
JoAnneBevilacqua@mh.org.au
JOSIE BARBAGALLO
Manager | North West Aged Care Assessment Service
josie.barbagallo@mh.org.au
JUDY BASILE
Regional Manager North East Victoria & Tasmania /
HCP Transition Manager
jbasile@baptcare,org.au
SARAH SEXTON
Program Manager – Northern Metropolitan & Hume Region Commiuty Packages
ssexton@baptcare.org.au