This World Mental Health Day, we look at how a new mental health centre is supporting young people experiencing mental ill health.

We’re one step closer to providing 144 new mental health beds across Victorian public health services with a $492 million funding increase announced today.

The Victorian Government’s $6.2 million upgrade of the intensive care area at Orygen Youth Health in Footscray is now complete.

The $6.2 million Orygen Youth Health intensive care area upgrade was completed in August 2020.

The Victorian Government invested $60 million to redevelop the Orygen and OYH Poplar Road precinct for the treatment and prevention of youth mental health, completed in November 2018.

The redeveloped Orygen building in Parkville is the new home for the globally recognised National Centre of Excellence in Youth Mental Health.