Conference brain dump: Insights on help-seeking, e-mental health service design, youth participation and more

21 December 2015

We’re committed to sharing insights and knowledge from our work with others, which is why we’ve been so busy sharing them in presentations at conferences around Australia and in Canada. Here, we’ve gathered the slides from topics covering a large range of our work, including youth involvement, participatory design, and our largest evaluation project ever in the hope that our insights can help others improve the efficiency and effectiveness of their service delivery.

Check them out below:

• Australia's largest longitudinal study of young people's use of an e-mental health service

• Help-seeking preferences and behaviours among young Australians

• ReachOut.com's role in illness prevention and early intervention

• Participatory design in e-mental health products

• Piloting integrated online and offline support in regional and remote areas

• Youth involvement at ReachOut Australia

• Using e-mental health tools to support young people outside of hours

• Apps to help young people with their mental health and wellbeing

• Best-practice community management in the ReachOut Peer Support Forums

• Developing a user-driven online help-seeking tool

Pictured above: Noni Hollonds, Professionals Program Coordinator, presents about the use of e-mental health tools to support young Australians outside of hours at the Rural & Remote Mental Health Symposium in late 2015.

Australia's largest longitudinal study of young people's use of an e-mental health service

Presented by Atari Metcalf (Senior Evaluation Manager) at the 3rd International Youth Mental Health Conference 2015.

Help-seeking preferences and behaviours among young Australians

Presented by Atari Metcalf (Senior Evaluation Manager) at the 3rd International Youth Mental Health Conference 2015.

ReachOut.com's role in illness prevention and early intervention

Presented by Dr Kerrie Buhagiar (Director of Service Delivery) at the National Suicide Prevention Conference 2015.

Participatory design in e-mental health products

Presented by Deepika Ratnaike (Director of Research & Policy) on behalf of Kitty Rahilly (Product Manager) at the 3rd International Youth Mental Health Conference 2015.

Piloting integrated online and offline support in regional and remote areas

Presented by Lorraine Ivancic (Research and Evaluation Officer) and Deb Howe (Mental Health Commission of NSW) at the 7th Australian Rural and Remote Mental Health Symposium.

Youth involvement at ReachOut Australia

Presented by Deepika Ratnaike (Director of Research and Policy) on behalf of Naaz Hussain (Content Producer) at the 3rd International Youth Mental Health Conference 2015.

Using e-mental health tools to support young people outside of hours

Presented by Noni Hollonds (Professionals Program Coordinator) at the 7th Australian Rural and Remote Mental Health Symposium 2015 and the 3rd International Youth Mental Health Conference 2015.

Apps to help young people with their mental health and wellbeing

Presented by Noni Hollonds (Professionals Program Coordinator) at RoadTrip: The Inaugural Australasian Youth Cancer Summit, an event for young people with cancer and their families.

Best-practice community management in the ReachOut Peer Support Forums

Presented by Deepika Ratnaike (Director of Research and Policy) on behalf of Sophie Potter (Community Manager) and Dr Kerrie Buhagiar (Director of Service Delivery) at the 3rd International Youth Mental Health Conference 2015.

Developing a user-driven online help-seeking tool

Presented by Victoria Blake (Research Coordinator) and Andréa Browne (Senior Project Manager/Creative Producer) at the 8th Primary Mental Health Care Conference.