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.
Support for young people disengaged from school to achieve their SACE or other vocational qualifications.
Case Managers form part of a team combining parents and schools and community services who support young people who have disengaged from school, or are at risk of disengaging from school, to learn life skills and achieve their SACE or other vocational qualifications.
Supports include:
- In class support.
- Mentoring.
- Parent engagement.
- Conflict resolution.
- Links to other community services.
- Learning options outside of school.
GOM Central is for young people who have lived in out of home care.
Provides online resources for young people leaving out of home care.
Provides online and phone mental health supports for 15-25 year olds and for families seeking support on how to assist a young person.
Provides mental health supports with a mental health clinician or peer worker with lived experience of mental health. Provides guidance on supporting a young person with mental health.
Services include:
- 1-1 chat.
- Personal mental health toolkit.
- Resources.
Provides free work and study online support for young people aged 15-25.
Receive 1-1 support for up to three months to reach your work or study goal.
Supports include:
- Identify your strengths, learn about yourself and what career you might like to pursue.
- Plan further education, course selection and enrolment.
- Write resumes and cover letters, and prepare for job interviews.
- Understand your workplace rights.
- Access support funding and services (NDIS, HECS, Centrelink).
- Take on new challenges like a new job or transitioning from school to start work or further study.
- Balance your mental health and wellbeing with work or study.
- Decide on goals that work for you and the steps to take to reach them.
The Integrated Youth Substance Misuse Specialist Service (IYSMSS) provides care for young people aged 12-24 with substance misuse.
Provides Outpatient Counselling, Residential Rehabilitation and a Sobering Up Unit.
Services include:
- Alcohol and Other Drug (AOD) Counselling.
- Residential rehabilitation program at Alban Place for intensive, live-in, ongoing support based on the therapeutic community model.
- Sobering Up Unit is a one-bed crisis response / acute service available to young people needing a safe and supported environment to sober up in.
- Connection to other services.
Provides free 24/7 online and phone counselling services for young people aged 5-25.
Kids helpline provides counselling supports assisting with many topics including mental health, physical health, identity, relationship, school, family and friendships.
Services include:
- 24/7 counselling supports.
- Webchat.
- My Circle social platform for 12-25 year olds.
Metropolitan Youth Health (MYH) is a trauma-responsive youth health service provided by the Women’s and Children’s Health Network to young people aged 12-25 years.
Provides a therapeutic trauma responsive health service.
Services include:
- Health assessments, screening and management of general medical issues (we run Nurse/Midwife and Dr led clinics at our sites and at various outreach locations).
- Antenatal and postnatal care.
- Sexual health (including screening, pap smears, contraception advice and emergency contraception) and education.
- Immunisation and health education.
- Programs for pregnant and parenting young people and their partners, including health care, education, training and career pathways, educational case management and group activities.
Provides free early intervention services for youth aged 12-18 from a culturally and linguistically diverse background who are having problems at school or home, are homeless or at risk of homelessness.
Uses a culturally sensitive approach to support young people from diverse backgrounds.
Services include:
- Outreach services across metropolitan Adelaide.
- Counselling and emotional support.
- Family mediation and conflict resolution.
- Guidance on education and community engagement.
- Practical support to access accommodation and secure finances.
- Help with managing substance use.
- Assistance to re-engage with family, school, and community.
- Support to identify and achieve personal goals.
- Referrals to other services.