AusEinet. The Early Intervention Network for Mental Health in Young People.
Associate Professor Graham Martin, for the team:
Background
In June 1997, Commonwealth of Australia funding of A$1.95 million was
provided to Flinders University and the University of Adelaide, South
Australia, under the National Mental Health Strategy and the National Youth
Suicide Prevention Strategy for the establishment of a National Early
Intervention Network to promote early intervention in mental health
problems specifically with children and young people through till 1999.
The focus of the project, titled AusEinet, is the development of a national
network involving key people such as consumers, carers, clinicians,
researchers and policy makers and the development of resource and training
manuals to promote best practice in early intervention in mental disorders
specifically with children and young people.
The Clearinghouse will also disseminate the outcomes of National Youth
Suicide Prevention Strategy projects after their completion in early 1999,
linking with the Australian Institute of Family Studies who are completing
the national stocktake of the projects.
The project is divided into three streams:
Stream One will focus on the development and maintenance of a national
communications network, as well as training issues. This includes the
establishment of the national clearinghouse for early intervention in
mental health; an international literature review; a national stocktake of
work in this area; the development and dissemination of an early
intervention newsletter; and the production of resource and training kits
on best practice in early intervention generally and with particular
disorders experienced by children and young people.
Stream Two will work with a variety of mental health and key intersectoral
service providers to re-orient service delivery in this area to an early
intervention focus. This will include a re-orientation consultancy
examining the potential in other systems to develop a greater understanding
of mental health problems and stronger links with mental health services.
In addition, clinical project officers will work within various systems to
identify and address structural and system issues to enable them to be
better placed to enhance early intervention for their clients with mental
health problems.
Stream Three will address specific mental health problems requiring further
development of best practice in early intervention. This stream will
include a review that will identify evidence based practice in early
intervention; provide support for existing early intervention programs; and
develop further best practice models in early intervention for specific
disorders.
This presentation will describe the setting up of the network and the
internet site (http:// AusEinet.flinders.edu.au) and our ongoing search for
the following:
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