Orygen Youth Health Clinical Program
Orygen Youth Health Clinical Program provides mental health assessment and treatment to 15 to 24 year olds who live in the Western and North Western areas of Melbourne. At any one time approximately 900 young people from a catchment population of 960,000 are being treated within the service for serious emerging mental health and substance use issues.
OYH-CP aims to provide accessible, timely, flexible and effective clinical treatment that encourages further helpseeking in young people. Most importantly OYH-CP endeavours to offer a service that young people experience as responsive and respectful.
OYH-CP have a range of specialist teams that provide clinical services these include:
- Youth Access Team - comprising Triage/Intake, Assessment and Crisis Response
- Youthscope, EPPIC, ICM, IMYOS, PACE - outpatient case management services
- OYH Inpatient Unit - hospital based services
- Group program - group based treatment services