Youth Mental Health: eheadspace

Overview

The Youth Mental Health: eheadspace grant aims to improve mental health outcomes for young people aged 12 to 25 years, and their families by providing national evidence based, accessible and responsive services. The Grant seeks to overcome barriers to help those seeking advice and support and reduce stigma via delivering online and telephone counselling to young people with, or at risk of, mental illness. The objectives for the Youth Mental Health: eheadspace grant opportunity are to:• Provide an integrated, clinically supervised, youth-friendly telephone and online therapeutic counselling and information service for young people aged 12 to 25 years, particularly those who face crisis, emotional distress and mental health difficulties;• Increase the availability and geographical accessibility of confidential telephone and web based early intervention services;• Complement and link to headspace and other youth mental health programs and services already in place; and • Assist young people and their families with appropriate referral pathways to headspace sites and other mental health, physical health, alcohol and drug, and social and vocational services and supports as appropriate. The expected outcomes of the grant are to:• Improve mental health outcomes for young people;• Improve the help seeking behaviours of young Australians and their families; and • Assist young people with issues as they arise by providing real-time support.