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Low intensity and early intervention model

Over the last 15 years, many countries have developed their own model of youth mental health care. These have largely evolved around an integrated care model within a youth hub, such as headspace in Australia and Foundry in Canada. While these models have been widely successful in adapting to other high-resource settings, the same cannot be said for programs in low- and middle-resource settings. As a result, many low- and middle-resource settings are examining models that require less resource allocation and access to a specialist youth mental health workforce.

Orygen Global is leading a project to better understand the low-intensity and early intervention model approach to support young people’s mental health and wellbeing and how this could be applied in different resource settings around the globe.

A low-intensity, low-cost model for youth mental health: the headspace Denmark approach
 

In the first phase of the project, Orygen has produced the report, A low-intensity, low-cost model for youth mental health: The headspace Denmark approach.

Young people in Denmark are benefitting from an accessible, low-intensity model of mental health support known as the headspace Denmark model.  The report details how this early intervention approach could be adapted to provide care to young people in other countries and contexts.

Read the report

The next phase of the project will include the completion of additional resources and learning products that will support implementers considering the development of low-intensity service models in their context.