What is Growing Minds Australia?
Growing Minds Australia is a collaborative formed across Australia for people with expertise and interest in research and clinical trials for child and youth mental health. Growing Minds Australia brings together clinicians, researchers, consumer groups and representatives, policy makers, professional associations and funders. A key focus for Growing Minds Australia is the development of Australia's first clinical trials network for child and youth mental health.
Why is this important?
Child and youth mental health conditions have a large individual, family, and society-level impact. As such, there is great need for increased research capacity, funding, and focus on prioritising areas with the greatest knowledge gaps. We're facilitating a range of research projects across a number of mental health specialisations, and are working together to create a child and youth mental health clinical trials research network. You can find out more about our research focus by clicking on 'Researchers', and more about our clinical innovations by clicking on 'Clinicians'.
What do we do?
The Growing Minds Australia project is funded by the Medical Research Future Fund (MRFF), and is an Australia-wide network of clinicians and researchers and community members committed to championing good mental health for children and young people across the future decades. We're working to put in place Australia's first clinical trials network in child and youth mental health. Through Growing Minds Australia, we are working alongside administrators, policy-makers, families, children, and young people to transform how child and youth mental healthcare is researched and designed so that all young people have the opportunity to experience the best possible wellbeing and health.
