There aren't many awards in mental health! If you are doing (or know of) great work that deserves recognition, applications close April 20th for TheMHS Learning Network awards. NB: New Services & Program category “Short Term Initiatives and Projects” Apply here: themhs.org/about-the-awar…

Thanks Marcia Devlin AM, PhD & Professor Natalie Hannan, PhD, GAICD for a fantastic talk, for your humour, persistence & determination! Thanks also #SWiMMentoringProgram for my afternoon reading... Just need to get past the blurb which highlights it'll take >100 years to achieve gender parity in academia...

What action do we need when it comes to young people & climate change? Mission Australia Kate Filia Caroline X. Gao Nick Fava et al suggestions include: we need to work together with young people to understand & address psychological burden of climate change, esp. those most impacted.

No 12 year old should grow up in prison. The Victorian Government must #RaiseTheAge of criminal responsibility to 14. Read the joint letter signed by Orygen and 60 other organisations here: bit.ly/42485HB #RaiseTheAge

Milla and Jack representing Orygen at the State of the Future event Parliament of Victoria talking with MPs about the big issues young people face and how parliament can involve young people to make good decisions. Alexander Dalton also made an incredible speech in the chambers.

All issues are #youth issues. One of the messages coming out of our 'State of the Future' youth forum at Parliament House when young people from various parts of our state presented their issues of interest & recommendations for ongoing engagement to MPs. #springst

From Dr Imogen Rehm ☕️ 👇 Do you provide #PeerSupport to Australians living with mental health issues? Researchers at Victoria University would like to know about the benefits & challenges your face in your role. Click here to find out more: vuau.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_3l… #LivedExperience

Stephen Wood Nicholas Cheng Isabel Zbukvic Alexander Dalton Angelica Ojinnaka-Psillakis Alex Stainton Aswin Ratheesh Orygen

We’re proud to celebrate #educationweek by launching an exciting new program – YOTES in Schools. With support from RACV, the pioneering YOTES has been rolled out to Berry Street schools to help students achieve their career goals. Learn more: bit.ly/3ofHRDC

Young people with lived experience are rarely included as partners in #SuicidePrevention research. Our new guidelines, led by Dr Marianne Webb (she/her) will change this! Orygen Charlie Cooper (he/him) Alexander Dalton YOUTHe International Association for Suicide Prevention American Foundation for Suicide Prevention NHMRC 👇 tinyurl.com/3xta9fjn

Should we ask young people to share information about their mental health via remote measurement technologies? Some thoughts from Simon Katterl and I following Annabel Walsh & team's realist review nature.com/articles/s4156… nature.com/articles/s4156… #youthmentalhealth

Please RT to encourage the Vic Gov to fund recommendation 29 of the Royal Commission into Victoria's Mental Health System in the upcoming budget. Establishing a Consumer Leadership Agency is an inexpensive but crucial part of reform. Jacinta Allan linkedin.com/pulse/promises…

We are so excited to announce Orygen is offering 30 scholarships to people with lived experience of mental ill-health to undertake our Certificate IV in Mental Health Peer Work (Consumer Peer Work). Applications are now open: bit.ly/46QYFle

AUTISM AND YOUTH MENTAL HEALTH 📣 Orygen wants to hear from Autistic young people, their parents/carers and health professionals in Australian youth mental health services. Your experiences can help us improve services and support! We have three surveys closing on June 14:

New role available for a part time TGD peer researcher in Melbourne. Details available here: orygen.org.au/about/work-wit…

Free event in Melbourne next week - register to come and join us in person or online via the livestream. A really fantastic lineup of international and Australian speakers! Ping IAYMH IEPA

Registrations for #IAYMH2025 are open! Abstracts close August 9th. Hosted by IAYMH Jack.org taking place on the shared, unceded, ancestral territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations advantagepco.eventsair.com/iaymh-2025/reg…

The Australian Shared Decision Making Network, meeting to discuss what we can learn from other countries & existing Australian programs to advance #SDM in policy & practice