Upper Murray people will be provided with tablets and given health advice in their own homes, in one of multiple projects funded by the state government.
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The $23.4 million recovery fund for services to deliver mental health support in bushfire-affected areas covers initiatives of Albury Wodonga Health, Corryong Health, and Alpine Health in partnership with NESAY.
Tallangatta Health Service will use $180,000 for a living well at home program, and to establish a community garden on their land.
Physiotherapist Briana Habermann will be join with an occupational therapist, a dietitian, and a social worker to create a series of videos.
"We'll be supporting people we're connected to, but we obviously wanted to target the whole community," she said.
"This way, people can do things in the comfort of their own home.
"Before COVID, we were running classes out in the community."
Chief executive Denise Parry hoped it would reach new people in the region.
"They might do this now, but later on come into the class, or ring us if they have any concerns," she said.
"We have also been funded for tablets with sim cards for 12 months, because not everybody out here has computers and some connectivity is difficult.
"We really wanted to have that connection with our community.
"Part of the program is we will have the ability to do some Telehealth, and that's not always funded ... so this gives the ability for allied health people to reach out.
"It's something new for us."
With the funding for North East projects announced this week, the THS team will set about establishing the living well program.
Ms Parry said the funding also was for the creation of a community garden, on land the health service owns.
"Our community has talked about it a while, so we thought, what a good time to do it - we have acres next to us, and it's in a really lovely spot, overlooking the foreshore," she said.
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"Gardens provide such great spaces for people of all backgrounds and abilities, to gather and do something nurturing.
"We really want people in our community, who think they can be part of a project steering committee, to step forward.
"Tallangatta Health Service will get it off the ground and it will be on our land, but our aim is the community will take ownership of it."
Ms Parry said the funding received by Corryong Health Service would support clinical-based delivery in the Upper Murray.
"These projects are aimed at supporting people's health and well-being," she said.
