The vision and mission of Growing Minds Australia is to promote mental health and wellbeing of children, young people, and their families by improving pathways to evidence-based support.
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.
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'.
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.
Joining Growing Minds Australia makes you a part of a collective committed to ensuring the accessibility of evidence-based child and youth mental health interventions to all families and young people in Australia. With your help we can make a once in a generation difference to outcomes for children and young people, for mental health and wellbeing.
Clinical Trials Network for Child and Youth Mental…
Clinical trials networks have served now for many years in medical research, where researchers combine efforts on a large scale to identify high-priority questions and implement coordinated research clinical trials. This paper by Hawes et al. (2022) details considerations relevant to the formation of Growing Minds Australia Clinical Trials Network. This group of 60 investigatorsRead More... from Clinical Trials Network for Child and Youth Mental HealthNewsletter Archive
You can find on this page the archives of all newsletters sent to our members. Check out our Winter 2022 Newsletter, here: GMA Newsletter Winter 2022 Check out our Spring 2022 Newsletter, here: GMA Newsletter Spring 2022 Check out our Summer 2022 Newsletter, here: GMA Newsletter Summer 2022 Check out our Autumn 2023 Newsletter, here:Read More... from Newsletter ArchiveGMA-IMPACT
Growing Minds Australia: Improving Mental Health Pathways and Access to Child and Youth Treatments Initiative (GMA IMPACT) GMA IMPACT is an adaptation of the successful Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT) program in the UK. GMA IMPACT is an innovative service model that aims to transform provision of child and youth mentalRead More... from GMA-IMPACTEngaging Fathers in Child and Youth Mental Health…
Evidence-based parenting support has been demonstrated to have both immediate and long-term positive effects on children’s wellbeing outcomes. While in the past parenting programs and supports that involved parents had included only mothers, today we know that involving fathers can have important beneficial outcomes for children and young people. It can be challenging for cliniciansRead More... from Engaging Fathers in Child and Youth Mental Health SupportBetter access to evidence-based support for parents to…
Research has demonstrated that evidence-based parenting support is the most effective intervention when it comes to changing parenting practices and improving children’s emotional and behavioural concerns, especially in early childhood. These same interventions can help to address environmental risk for children, by encouraging parental behaviour that minimises likelihood of maltreatment, as an example. Evidence-based parentingRead More... from Better access to evidence-based support for parents to change mental health outcomes for children and young peopleChanging national literacy for child and youth mental…
Research has established that half of all mental health concerns emerge during childhood years. There are several effective evidence-based supports for children who are experiencing mental health problems, but many children do not receive professional help. One reason for this may be low levels of mental health literacy and high levels of stigma among parentsRead More... from Changing national literacy for child and youth mental health