Youth Health
Sydney North Health Network (SNHN) is funded by the Australian Department of Health and guided by Orygen The National Centre of Excellence in Youth Mental Health to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of youth health services in the Northern Sydney region.
This is achieved through a partnership approach with Northern Sydney young people, general practitioners, primary care nurses, allied health providers, community organisations, councils and Northern Sydney Local Health District (NSLHD) in the consultation, co-designing, and commissioning of youth services. To date over 200 stakeholders have been involved in the designing of regional youth services funded by SNHN.
Youth Mental Health
Youth Alcohol and other Drug Services
GP in Schools Program
GPs in Schools is a 3-hour workshop for year 11 students in Northern Sydney high schools that SNHN provides at no cost to high schools. The program has been running for over 20 years and aligns with the NSW Department of Education’s Life Ready course, part of the PDHPE syllabus.
The evidence-based program brings Doctors and Nurses into their local schools to build student’s confidence and health literacy in areas such as access to free healthcare, specific youth health issues, confidentiality, Medicare, and their healthcare rights.
GPs in Schools empowers students to ask questions that matter to them in a safe environment, in their school with their self-selected friendship groups of approximately 12 students per GP or Nurse. Utilising a peer-centred health promotion approach that allows students to ask questions anonymously invests in students to take an active and informed role in their healthcare as they transition to adulthood.
Learn more about the GPs in Schools program.
Youth Health Education Resources
- Headspace National Youth mental health, alcohol and other drugs, and sexual health RACGP accredited modules
- MindMatters – School Resources
- Orygen The National Centre of Excellence in Youth Mental Health – Fact sheets, Webinars, Training Modules and more.