Implementing and Delivering Youth Mental Health Services: Approaches Taken by the Australian Primary Health Network 'Lead Sites'.

ABSTRACT:

Aim

This paper aims to report on effective approaches for, and early impacts of, implementing and delivering services for youth with, or at risk of, severe mental illness commissioned by 10 Primary Health Network (PHN) Lead Sites (reform leaders) in Australia.

Methods

The following qualitative data sources were analyzed using a thematic approach: focus group consultations with 68 Lead Site staff and 70 external stakeholders from Lead Site regions; and observational data from one Lead Site meeting with a focus on services for youth with, or at risk of, severe mental illness and one national symposium that was attended by Lead Site staff and service providers.

Results

The Lead Site staff described common effective strategies for implementing and delivering youth enhance

SUBMITTER: Oostermeijer S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9517850 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature