"Bridging the Gap" - When mental health care for young people falls through the cracks

Orygen, The National Centre of Excellence in Youth Mental Health is the world’s leading research and knowledge translation organisation focusing on mental ill-health in young people.At Orygen, our leadership and staff work to deliver cutting-edge research, policy development, innovative clinical services, and evidence-based training and education to ensure that there is continuous improvement in the treatments and care provided to young people experiencing mental ill-health.

Orygen, The National Centre of Excellence in Youth Mental Health

In Conversation with Professor Patrick McGorry AO (Executive Director, Orygen, the National Centre of Excellence in Youth Mental Health) and Professor Matthew Broome (Director, Institute for Mental Health, University of Birmingham, UK)
<H3 CLASS="MsoNormal">“Bridging the Gap” – When mental health care for young people falls through the cracks</H3>
Significant gains have been made over the past decade to improve the way we respond to the mental health needs of our young people. The critical foundation of youth mental health care, focused to early intervention has been laid which has improved young people’s access to primary mental health care – for example through the establishment of over 100 headspace centres across Australia and the development of the Youthspace model in Birmingham, UK.
 However, challenges persist. There remains serious underinvestment in direct mental health care when compared to the enormous social and economic burden of mental ill-health and large gaps in mental health services persist (or have become wider) particularly for young people with moderate or serious mental health conditions.
You are invited to join Professor Patrick McGorry AO and Professor Matthew Broome from the University of Birmingham to unpack the challenges and discuss the opportunities needed to ‘bridge the gap.’
For any questions please contact us at <A HREF="mailto:events@orygen.org.au" TARGET="_blank" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer">events@orygen.org.au</A>
 
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About the speakers 
<H3 CLASS="MsoNormal">Professor Patrick McGorry</H3>
Professor Patrick McGorry is the Executive Director of Orygen, Professor of Youth Mental Health at the University of Melbourne, and a Founding Director of the National Youth Mental Health Foundation (headspace). He is a world-leading researcher in the area of early psychosis and youth mental health, and has been directly involved in research and clinical care for homeless people, refugees and asylum seekers. His work has played a critical role in the development of safe, effective treatments for and innovative research into the needs of young people with emerging mental disorders, notably psychotic and severe mood disorders. He has also played a major part in the transformational reform of mental health services to better serve the needs of young people with mental ill-health. Professor McGorry was a key architect of the headspace model and has been successful in advocating with colleagues for its national expansion. He has successfully advocated for the establishment of a national early psychosis programme based on the Early Psychosis Prevention and Intervention Centre model. He is frequently asked to advise on early intervention and youth mental health policy both nationally and internationally.
<H3 CLASS="MsoNormal">Professor Matthew Broome</H3>
Professor Matthew Broome is the Chair in Psychiatry and Youth Mental Health and the Director of the Institute for Mental Health at the University of Birmingham, UK.  He has worked largely in the area of early psychosis, but is also interested in the onset of mental disorders in young people, includng mood instability, autism, and in suicide and self-harm. His work has utilised functional neuroimaging, cognitive neuropsychology and epidemiology and he has also worked in the philosophy and ethics of mental health.
The Birmingham Institute for Mental Health (IMH) has been created to improve the care and outcomes of those suffering from problems in their mental health, and to ensure a sustained impact on public policy and practice. Its approach to mental health recognises its multi-dimensional nature, and that a broad approach is required to understand the biological, psychological, anthropological, sociocultural and socio-economic factors that shape individual and population mental health. The IMH is poised to use this wealth of resource locally together with its existing and recognised expertise within cognitive neuroscience, psychology, social policy, philosophy, ethics, education, health economics and medicine to inform policy and practice which will make a step change in the mental health of our young people and society
 
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