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Organisation

Orygen

Alternate Name:

The National Centre of Excellence in Youth Mental Health

Policy report

Side by side: supporting youth peer work in mental health services


This policy paper outlines the barriers youth peer workers face and makes ten recommendations for ensuring that the workforce grows and is well-supported.
Guide

Promising practice guide: improving the social and emotional wellbeing of young Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people with severe and complex mental health needs


This practice guide aims to support service providers, commissioners and policy-makers to adopt strengths-based, equitable and culturally responsive approaches that better meet the social and emotional wellbeing needs of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander young people.
Report

Under the radar: the mental health of Australian university students


Students with an experience of mental ill-health have been shown to be more likely to consider exiting, or exit, their course early. This can have a detrimental impact on both their future mental health as well as their education and employment pathways.
Report

Raising the bar for youth suicide prevention


This consultation has been underpinned by a comprehensive review of the national and international literature on youth suicide prevention undertaken by Orygen’s Suicide Prevention Research Team.
Report

Tell them they're dreaming: work, education and young people with mental illness in Australia


This report examines the employment and welfare system in relation to young people with mental illness and education and employment. It makes a number of recommendations which the authors hope will allow people at the outset of a mental illness to not lose their dreams of the future.

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