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Overview screen of the Western Sydney Youth Mental Health decision support tool user interface. This image is licenced under CC-BY-NC-ND.Â
My participation
My participation
I participated in the workshops and model development group for the Western Sydney model. I am also part of the RCFTWYL National Youth Reference Group.
I was provided the opportunity to contribute to contribute to an academic paper (Hosseini et al., 2025).Â
Western Sydney model
Western Sydney model
The Western Sydney model was co-designed with young people and service providers, across several workshops and groups.
Results
Results
The most improvement in 15 to 24 years old symptomatic mental disorders, cumulative MH-related emergency department presentations, and cumulative self-harm hospitalizations was with a combination of doubling the growth rate of specialised mental health services and of online services as well as implementing technology-enabled integrated care (Hosseini et al., 2025).
References
Hosseini, S. H., Ho, N., Huntley, S., Piper, S., Crosland, P., Skinner, A., Vacher, C., Tran, K., Nguyen, K.-H., Song, Y. J. C., Loblay, V., Iannelli, O., Ferdousi, S., Munasinghe, S., Rao, S., Lam, D., Waterhouse-Bushnell, Z., Clancey, G., Hickie, I. B., & Occhipinti, J.-A. (2025). Examining the Impact of Youth Mental Health Services Capacity Growth Trajectories and Digital Interventions on Youth Mental Health Outcomes: System Dynamics Modeling Analysis. Journal of Medical Internet Research, 27(1), e71256. https://doi.org/10.2196/71256
Community_Panel_handbook_2023__9_-compressed.pdfMy participation
My participation
I was part of the Culturally Diverse citizen jury/community panel, where we reviewed the evidence.
Jury recommendations
Jury recommendations
These recommendations from both citizen juries/community panels answer the question, "Should we, the people of Western Sydney, continue to invest in the health system in the same way as we have in the past?".
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