The annual symposium of the ‘Right care, first time, where you live’ Program was held at the end of last year. Our Program is working with eight regions in Australia to help develop a much greater and more effective youth mental health system within their region. At the event we bring together people from across the country who are involved in the Program to share their experiences of implementing the Program in their region.
Read MoreThe 'Moving forward after the referendum on the Voice' webinar was proudly brought to you by the Centre of Best Practice in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Suicide Prevention, the University of Western Australia, and the Brain and Mind Centre, at the University of Sydney.
It was proudly supported by the 'Right care, first time, where you live' Program.
There were over 350 registrations for this important discussion. The panellists are grateful to all the people who registered and joined us as one community, together, responding to this lost opportunity for our nation.
Read MoreThe ’Right care, first time, where you live’ program has recently completed Phase | Systems modelling and simulation through a participatory approach for the Brisbane South region.
The University of Sydney’s Brain and Mind Centre team are incredibly grateful to the Brisbane South Primary Health Network for collaborating on this project with us.
Read MoreThe 'Right care, firs time, where you live' Program held it's first Phase I systems modelling workshop in the Western Sydney region. In this video some of the participants of the workshop discuss their experiences of the workshop and the participatory action research process. Watch now: https://youtu.be/Dg2SEGWu_vY
Read MoreOn Thursday, 7 September 2023, we had the tremendous privilege of kicking off the first systems modelling workshop of the ‘Right care, first time, where you live’ Program with the Western Sydney Primary Health Network (PHN). The Western Sydney PHN collaborated with us to coordinate the workshop and they did a tremendous job of rallying the youth mental health community and encouraging them to participate in the day.
Read MoreThe dynamic systems models are developed using a participatory approach, which means that our Brain and Mind Centre team work with a site to gather people from the community to help us map out how the youth mental health system is working within that region. There are a diverse range of stakeholders involved in this mapping and development process including young people with lived experience of poor mental health as well as representatives from the mental health system in the region such as clinicians, health services, carers, education services, and housing services to name a few.
Read MoreAt the Brain and Mind Centre, in the Youth Mental Health and Technology team, we believe that involving young people with lived experience of mental health concerns in our research is critically important. Young people with lived experience need a voice at every stage and phase of the research process.
We’re delighted to announce today the implementation of the National ‘Right care, first time, where you live’ Youth Lived Experience Reference Group. The goal of this reference group is to embed lived experience in every aspect and phase of the Program to ensure that we achieve our objectives and to ensure that the Program is sustainable in the long term.
Read MoreProfessor Ian Hickie and his team discuss Phase II Embedding the systems model in an ongoing monitoring, evaluation and system improvement decision-support ecosystem of the University of Sydney's Brain and Mind Centre program 'Right care, first time, where you live'. '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.
Read MoreThe 'Right care, firs time, where you live' Program held it's first Phase I systems modelling workshop in the Brisbane South region. In this video some of the participants of the workshop discuss their experiences of the workshop and the participatory action research process.
Read MoreThe Brain and Mind Centre Youth Model of Care (BMC Youth Model) was developed by Professor Ian Hickie and Associate Professor Elizabeth Scott in partnership with young people. It evolved out of years of research and clinical practice, and the strong desire to empower young people in their care and really listen to them about the care that they really need.
Read MoreOur ‘Right care, first time, where you live’ program kicked off in Brisbane South on Thursday. It was fantastic to see so many passionate people around the table talking about the youth mental health system in their region. The discussions were all very respectful and driven by a recognition that our mental health system need systemic reform. We gained many valuable insights into the challenges the system faces in the Brisbane South region, where programs and services are going well and where the gaps are. Our systems modellers will now use these insights to create a computational model of what is happening in the youth mental health system in the Brisbane South region.
Read MoreIt was wonderful to have several of our advisory committee members at our Annual Symposium, 17 November 2022.
Their insights and support of the Right care, first time, where you live program in their role as committee members, has been invaluable. In this photo, from left to right, is Emeritus Professor Geoff Gallop, Professor Jakelin Troy and Sam Hockey.
Read MoreThe Right care, first time, where you live held its annual symposium last week. The Program is focussed on empowering communities to improve the youth mental health system in their region.
It’s been an incredible journey over the past year working on implementing Phase I of the Program with the Office of Mental Health and Wellbeing, ACT Health. We’ve learned so many things along the way and it was really exciting to hear about the ACT’s perspective on co-creating a youth mental health system model and decision support tool for that region.
Read MoreThe Right care, first time, where you live program has completed its first phase in the ACT. The Youth Mental Health and Technology team at the Brain and Mind Centre are grateful to the Office for Mental Health and Wellbeing, ACT Health for going on this journey with us to develop a systems model of the youth mental health system in their region. This is the first time that a systems model of the youth mental health system has been developed for this region, and we are very grateful to all the regional health professionals and partners who gave us their time and engaged with us in this process. In particular we’d like to thank the young people with lived experience who’s insights were critical and invaluable to ensuring the model reflected their experiences. This video provides some highlights of the systems model development workshops.
Read MoreDr Sarah McKenna, a contributor to the Right care, first time, where you live, program talks about the benefits of tracking your physical health for improving your mental health. Particularly tracking your food, sleep, exercise and mood. She’s a clinical psychologist and researcher at the Brain and Mind Centre, at the University of Sydney.
Read MoreSystems modelling and simulation offers a unique and important tool for systems analysis to support decision making for complex health and social problems. Systems modelling will allow stakeholders at national and regional levels to explore in detail the feedbacks between the economy, mental health and policy responses. Importantly, interactive systems models allow stakeholders to undertake scenario testing of a range of potential mitigation strategies.
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