Working directly with young people, their families and supporters, Orygen pioneers new, positive approaches to the prevention and treatment of mental ill-health, including early intervention for psychosis, a focus on functional recovery and evidence-backed digital supports.
Having established the field of youth mental health more than 30 years ago, Orygen continues to grow and innovate with 16 professors, 34 PhD students and 35 graduate researchers among its 200 research staff, all working to improve the lives of young people in Australia and around the world.
Orygen has 12 key areas of research focus, including clinical neuroscience, clinical staging, early psychosis, eating disorders, functional recovery, mood and anxiety, personality disorder, substance use and suicide prevention. Orygen has a technology arm, Orgyen Digital, doing research into Virtual Reality and digital interventions for youth mental health.
How Orygen can help
Services and resources
- MOST is a free on-demand digital mental health service for young people aged 12 to 25.
- Mello is a free app that tackles rumination or ‘stuck thinking’, which is one of the core drivers of anxiety and depression: https://orygen.org.au/Research/Research-Areas/Orygen-Digital/Mello.
- #chatsafe is a suicide prevention program aimed at young people, parents, teachers and carers, equipping them to communicate about self-harm and suicide online.
- Orygen Recovery is a residential facility designed for young people 16-25. The centre provides a short-term (up to 28 days) 'step up' from the community for young people to work on recovery goals or to prevent an admission to hospital, or a 'step down' from hospital to further assist with recovery and safe transition home.
- Orygen Specialist Program, delivered by Melbourne Health, provides specialist mental health services for young people aged 12 – 25 in the western and north-western regions of metropolitan Melbourne.
- Education: Orygen is a Registered Training Organisation, with a range of education offerings.
- Training: Orygen provides training resources for mental health clinicians.
- Research: Find out more about Orygen’s research.
