The Right care, first time, where you live is an ambitious Program which aims to get young people, back to work, back to school and thriving in their communities. The Program will achieve this by building community capacity to leverage systems modelling and simulation to:
NAVIGATE a challenging decision-making environment to provide effective and timely health and wellbeing solutions for young people.
STRENGTHEN and COORDINATE the delivery of mental health care using tools and technology to remain responsive to the changing needs of young people and their communities.
EMPOWER young people to make compelling investment cases to help decision-makers make better decisions on the mental health and well-being of their communities.
SUSTAIN and SCALE an inclusive and integrated decision analytic, monitoring and evaluation ecosystem to support life-long mental health and wellbeing for young people to get back to school, back to work, thriving in their communities.
Our systems modelling will give regional health authorities, social service providers, and community stakeholders the tools, processes, and insights needed to more effectively allocate limited available resources. We hope this will enable and direct current and future needs of young people to keep them well, improve their individual trajectories, and help communities thrive.
Our objectives are designed to strengthen national and regional mental health systems to achieve real reform focused on delivering better outcomes for young people and their communities through the provision of:
participatory decision support ecosystem (enabled by systems modelling and simulation) to inform regional and national cost-effective investments;
cross-sectoral care coordination through digital technology;
workforce capacity building; and
integrated longitudinal monitoring and evaluation processes.