This statement argues age-based social media bans are unlikely to be effective and that it is important that policymakers, social media platforms and mental health organisations work together to develop evidence-based solutions to ensure that young people are safe online.

There is widespread agreement across generations in the United Kingdom – from Gen Z to Baby Boomers – that young people’s mental health is worse than it was in the past, but they often differ on what this really means and what might be driving it, according to the results of this survey.

Nationally and internationally, young people have expressed high levels of concern about climate change, which has been consistently associated with psychological distress. To inform this report, Orygen commissioned a YouGov survey of young Australians (16–25 years old) to understand how climate distress is impacting the mental health and wellbeing of young people.

Individual Placement and Support (IPS) is considered the most effective and evidence-based model of employment support for people living with mental ill-health. This framework aims to increase and retain IPS workforce availability, capacity, and capability to deliver IPS programs in headspace, ultimately improving vocational recovery outcomes for young people experiencing mental ill-health.

This framework underpins the Individual Placement and Support (IPS) Workforce Development Framework developed for headspace by providing consistent guidance on the skills and competencies required to be an effective IPS specialist.