The Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service (CAMHS) is a free community and hospital-based tertiary mental health service for young people aged up to 18 years.
Tertiary mental health services provide the highest level of care for those with severe and complex mental health issues.
Services include:
- Individual and family therapy.
- Group programs.
- Information.
- Hospital-based mental health care.
Works with young people in the Adelaide metro area who are experiencing or at risk of homelessness.
Services include:
- Accommodation Services.
- Supports to engage with education, training or work.
- Outreach program to assist with successful tenancy.
- Early intervention to prevent homelessness.
Streetlink is a health and wellbeing service for young people aged 10–25.
Provides support and counselling around alcohol and other drugs, along with general health and wellbeing support.
Supports include:
- Assistance if you are worried about your current use.
- Assistance if you have stopped using but feel you might start again.
- Supports if you feel your use is affecting your mental health.
- Are pregnant and concerned about alcohol or drug use.
- Want to link in with medical support to help reduce your use.
- Want support around a family member’s alcohol or drug use.
- General health checks.
- Sexual health screening, treatment and advice.
- Contraception.
- Pregnancy support.
- Mental health support.
Tumbelin Farm is a residential adventure therapy program for young people aged 16-24 with alcohol or drug related problems.
Located in the Adelaide Hills, Tumbelin Farm provides treatment for substance addictions.
Services include:
- Counselling.
- Case management.
- Therapy Practitioners.
Provides information, advocacy and case management to young people aged 10-25 living in the southern or western regions of Adelaide to support them through life's challenges.
Supports include:
- Navigate mental health issues.
- Develop practical life skills.
- Reconnect and continue education.
- Connect with the local community.
- Get involved in group based programs.
- Build capacity.
- Access other community services and support.
Provides case management and mentorship to youth aged 5-25 who identify as young carers in Northern Adelaide, including the Barossa, Lower Light and surrounding areas.
Coordinators work with young carers for up to 12 months, assisting with goal-setting and fostering self-advocacy and independence.
Services include:
- Improve young carers’ wellbeing.
- Increase education and employment opportunities.
- Strengthen connections with communities, support networks and services.
Provides moderate to high mental health care needs to youth aged 12-25 years.
The YES program has a team of clinicians and healthcare professionals who provide psychological support and other care as needed.
Services include:
- Clinical care.
- Care Coordinators.
- Lived experience peer workers.
- Care plan.
Provides free legal advice, court representation and legal information to young people.
Help to understand and support you if you have a legal dispute, have been questioned or charged by police, or you need information about the legal system and your rights.
Services include:
- Representation in youth court.
- Helping you deal with police, including if you are a victim of crime.
- Minor criminal matters.
- Fines and infringements.
- Consumer and contract issues.
- Employment issues.
- Tenancy.
- Family law and family violence.
- Motor vehicle matters.
- Civil law.
- Legal support relating to Centrelink issues.
- Navigating the NDIS, understanding your rights and how to resolve issues.
- Credit issues eg. Mobile phone contracts, credit cards, payday lenders etc.
- Leaving home.
- Medical Rights and consent.
- Providing community legal education.
Youth Options help people aged 14 to 30 to build their capacity to set and achieve their goals for a thriving future.
Supports include:
- Overcome barriers.
- Realise their own potential.
- Build confidence, skill development and work readiness.
- Safely shift self-limiting beliefs and behaviours.
- Access the tools and support they need to explore and shape the future they imagine.