Austin School

Melbourne Private Schools introduces Austin School in Heidelberg, for all your education and learning needs.

The Austin School is a P-12 school setting located within the grounds of the Austin Hospital in Heidelberg.  The school provides specialised educational services to young people, both inpatient and outpatient, who have significant emotional, physical and psychiatric problems. They are patients of the Austin Child & Adolescent Mental Health Service (CAMHS), the Paediatric Ward (2 West), or Royal Talbot Rehabilitation Hospital.  front of school

The Adolescent Inpatient Unit currently accepts referrals of young people (13 to 17 years) from the North Western sector of the state. Younger children (0 to 12 years) from across Victoria can be referred to the Child Inpatient Program called ‘The Eagle Unit”. This is the only mental health inpatient unit for young children in Victoria.  Patients from the Paediatric Ward and Royal Talbot Rehabilitation Hospital, whose stay in hospital is considered long enough to affect their learning, can be referred to the Wards Teaching Program.

Outpatients of CAMHS can be offered placements in short term programs designed to support their social education or to facilitate a return to an educational or vocational setting especially if they are either not attending school or are identified as being at risk of exclusion from schooling.  There are programs for primary aged students, secondary aged students, and group programs focussing on development of appropriate social skills.