Organisation
Orygen
Alternate Name:
The National Centre of Excellence in Youth Mental Health
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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.