Clinical Programs

Orygen Youth Health Clinical Program (OYH-CP) provides a comprehensive series of programs to provide assistance to young people with mental illness, and these programs primarily work within a case management model. This means that everyone accepted for treatment at OYH-CP will be allocated a case manager.

The case manager is responsible for developing and implementing a treatment plan that aims to empower the young person to manage  their illness. This treatment plan will be developed in collaboration with the young person, and where possible the carers/family, and may include a range of planned interventions such as counseling, group therapy sessions, school/work liaison, family work and where relevant, other community linkages. The case manager will also work with a doctor to determine whether medication may be a useful intervention. 

The young person is encouraged to attend their appointments at the Parkville site however the case manager may at times visit the young person at home or at a convenient location. The young person's case manager may be a social worker, psychiatric nurse, occupational therapist, medical officer or clinical psychologist. The case manager will work within one of the many clinical teams within OYH-CP depending upon the problem the young person is presenting with.