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Youth prevention and recovery care centre expansion and upgrade program

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The Victorian Government is investing $141 million to support youth mental health, delivering new and refurbished youth prevention and recovery care (YPARC) centres across the state.

YPARC services provide treatment, care and support to young people aged 16-25 who are experiencing mental health challenges and/or psychological distress. The investment will deliver five new 10-bed facilities – doubling current system capacity.

The new centres will be in:

Delivering Victoria’s health infrastructure investment

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Delivering Victoria’s biggest ever investment in health infrastructure

IMAGES: an animation of the Victorian Health Building Authority logo displays

Voice-over: We’re the Victorian Health Building Authority

IMAGES: montage of aerial view of Monash Hospital emergency department redevelopment; an architectural plan; mental health workers exploring a prototype of a bedroom module; aerial of Sunshine Hospital emergency department; construction workers cementing basement of Victorian Heart Hospital

Voice-over: We’re planning and delivering the Victorian Government’s biggest ever multi-billion-dollar investment in health infrastructure

IMAGES: montage of hybrid operating theatre at Northern Hospital; worker with nail gun; community engagement session at Footscray; Community Hospital community consultation; garden courtyard at Bendigo Hospital; aerial of greater Ballarat with artist impression of new hospital

Voice-over: Partnering with service providers, industry and the community to develop innovative and sustainable health facilities for our growing communities.

IMAGES: montage of workers at concrete pour; aerial of Victorian Heart Hospital construction

Voice-over: Creating thousands of new jobs and supporting our state’s economic growth

IMAGES: Aerial of St George’s Residential Aged Care facility; indigenous man and female health worker; aerial view of artist impression of new Footscray Hospital

Voice-over: To help keep Victoria one of the world's most liveable places, now and into the future

A sliding transition screen then displays the Victorian Health Building Authority logo and the web address vhba.vic.gov.au

Final frame of Victoria State Government logo and text ‘Authorised by the Victorian Government, 1 Treasury Place, Melbourne’

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Providing care for all Victorians, closer to home

Our project pipeline will help to ensure more Victorians, regardless of their location, have access to the healthcare they need.

In addition to building new facilities, we’re also investing in upgrading and expanding existing regional facilities, including new medical equipment and technology and modernising mental health environments for consumers.

Through innovative, modern design we’re creating aged care facilities that are dementia friendly and adapting emergency departments to provide dedicated paediatric zones and mental health hubs for urgent care.

Selection of projects in our current pipeline

  • New campuses at the Royal Melbourne Hospital and Royal Women’s Hospital
  • Upgrading the Austin Hospital
  • Upgrading the Northern Hospital
  • New West Gippsland Hospital
  • New Queen Elizabeth II hospital
  • Second stage of the Wonthaggi Hospital
  • Monash Medical Centre redevelopment
  • Dandenong Hospital redevelopment
  • New Footscray Hospital
  • Stage 2 of the Thomas Embling Hospital redevelopment
  • New Barwon Women’s and Children’s
  • New Melton Hospital

  • Royal Children’s Hospital redevelopment
  • Frankston Hospital redevelopment
  • Warrnambool Hospital redevelopment
  • New emergency departments at Casey Hospital and Werribee Mercy Hospital
  • A Mental Health and Alcohol and Other Drug Residential Rehabilitation Facility in Mildura
  • Ten early parenting centres across the state
  • Increased acute and community mental health services at Goulburn Valley Health in Shepparton
  • Three aged care redevelopments at Camperdown, Mansfield and Orbost.

Community engagement

Building a new hospital, mental health or aged care facility is a complex job. It takes a lot of planning, and meaningful engagement with service users, people with lived experience, staff, experts, the local community and a range of stakeholders to help shape the services, priorities and look and feel of a hospital or facility.

Our focus is to take the community on the journey throughout the planning and delivery of a project, so they feel informed and confident their concerns and issues are heard. Whether that’s informing final designs, managing issues proactively or celebrating project milestones with the local community.

Our approach to designing health infrastructure prioritises accessibility, quality, and innovation. By investing in new facilities, upgrading existing infrastructure, promoting community-based healthcare services, and co-designing with local communities, we can help increase access to healthcare Victorians need, closer to home.

Our partners

We work with organisations with specialist expertise in health service design and planning, architecture, engineering, construction, project management, property, and asset management to deliver world-class, innovative and sustainable health infrastructure.

Want to work with us? Find out more about our procurement process.

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At the Victorian Health Building Authority, we’re responsible for planning and delivering the Victorian Government’s multi-billion-dollar health infrastructure program.

We oversee more than 80 health, mental health and aged care projects currently in development across metropolitan and regional Victoria. These include:

  • hospitals and ambulance stations
  • residential aged care facilities
  • mental health facilities
  • new and upgraded alcohol and other drug rehabilitation facilities
  • replacing and upgrading engineering infrastructure and medical equipment.
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Video: Designs for Bendigo Early Parenting Centre

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Bendigo Early Parenting Centre - Designs

TEXT: Your new Early Parenting Centre in Bendigo.

IMAGES: Artist impression of entrance and landscaping of new centre.

TEXT: Reception area designed using natural materials.

IMAGES: Artist impression of reception area and lounge waiting area with parents, children and toys.

TEXT: Multipurpose area featuring natural light and garden views.

IMAGES: Artist impression of hall with seating and large presentation screens.

TEXT: Flexible family suites supporting different family structures.

IMAGES: Artist impression of family suite with mother and child.

TEXT: Play areas encouraging play and learning.

IMAGES: Artist impression of parents with children in play area with a variety of toys and learning spaces.

TEXT: Kitchen and dining areas designed to feel like home.

IMAGES: Artist impression of families using a large kitchen and open dining area with tables and chairs.

TEXT: Outdoor areas for nature play and relaxing.

IMAGES: Artist impression of a walkways through landscaped gardens with colourful flowers and shady trees.

IMAGES: Artist impression of aerial view of centre including outdoor garden and play areas.

IMAGES: The closing slide is the Victorian Health Building Authority logo, the web address vhba.vic.gov.au and the Victorian State Government logo.

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Early parenting centres expansion and upgrade project

The Bendigo centre is being delivered as part of the Victorian Government’s $148 million investment to expand and upgrade the early parenting service network.

The program will upgrade two existing centres and build eight new centres in growing areas across metropolitan and regional Victoria.

Learn more about the Early parenting centres expansion and upgrade project via our dedicated project page.

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Families will soon have better access to early parenting support in purpose-built facilities, with construction now underway for a new multi-million-dollar early parenting centre in Bendigo.

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Last updated: 19 August 2025