News And Events

  • 30Jul

    Orygen welcomes Dr Jean Twenge

    Dr Jean Twenge, Professor of Psychology at San Diego State University recently visited Australia to speak at a number of events on the impact of technology on the well-being and mental health of young people in America.

  • 30Jul

    Smartphone technology taps into mental health of young people

    The ways in which young people use their smartphones may be monitored and studied to identify those in need of psychological help or those most likely to respond to mental interventions.

  • 27Jul

    A tale of EPPIC proportions

    Orygen, The National Centre of Excellence in Youth Mental Health together with Orygen Youth Heath Clinical Program are celebrating 25 years of innovation and dedication to improving the mental health of young people. To mark the anniversary Orygen is producing a series of stories that capture the history and milestones of the organisations. The first in the series takes us back to where it all began, the Early Psychosis Prevention and Intervention Centre (EPPIC) model of care.

  • 26Jul

    Enhancing the clinical care of young people with complex mental health needs

    The enhanced care model piloted at Orygen’s four headspace centres in Melbourne’s north-west in 2017 has had its funding extended following successful results in its first year.

     

     

  • 25Jul

    Doctors in Schools program shows early success

    Orygen-led headspace centres are now delivering GP services into secondary schools in Melbourne’s north-west as part of the Victorian Department of Education’s Doctors in Schools program.

  • 06Jul

    Professor Eoin Killackey announced as IEPA President-Elect

    Professor Eoin Killackey, Associate Director of Graduate Research and Education at Orygen, the National Centre of Excellence in Youth Mental health, has been announced as President-Elect of the IEPA Early Intervention in Mental Health.

  • 03Jul

    New services in NW Melbourne target young people with complex mental health needs

    Orygen, the National Centre of Excellence in Youth Mental Health, will lead a consortium that will develop and deliver mental health services to young people with, or at risk of, severe mental illness, it was announced today.

  • 28Jun

    Clinical leader takes stock on the shores of Antarctica

    Dr Sophie Adams, the clinical director of the four headspace centres Orygen operates in the north-west of Melbourne, has recently returned from a month-long journey to Antarctica, the final stage of a 12 month leadership program called Homeward Bound.

  • 27Jun

    Young people with borderline personality disorder respond differently to unpleasant imagery

    A new study has found that young people in the early stages of Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) have abnormalities in the way they process and respond to unpleasant stimuli.

  • 26Jun

    Health services inadequate in responding to young people affected by trauma

    Australian mental health services lack the capability and capacity to respond to the needs of young people affected by trauma, a new report has found.

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Orygen, The National Centre of Excellence in Youth Mental Health currently only operates clinical services in the north and north west of Melbourne through our headspace centres.

If you need to access a clinical service and you live in another part of Australia you can access a range of services through the headspace centres operating around Australia. Visit www.headspace.org.au for more information.

If you are looking for our partner organisation Orygen Youth Health Clinical Program operated by North West Mental Health who provide specialist youth mental health assessment and treatment to 15 –24 year olds in the Western and North Western areas of Melbourne please visit www.oyh.org.au or for referrals call their triage service 1800 888 320.