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Adolescent Model of Care

Find out the key findings from the 2009 review of the Adolescent Model of Care.

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Article in the West Australian paper re: alcohol

Does letting teens have small amounts of alcohol from early on teach them to drink sensibly? Click on the link below to read what Prof. Patton of the Centre for Adolescent Health, Murdoch Childrens Research Institute says. http://www.mcri.edu.au/Downloads/Media/2009/11/04/alcohol.pdf

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Congratulations to Professor George Patton

Congratulations to Professor George Patton, Director of Research at the Centre for Adolescent Health, whose team’s research on youth mortality recently received coverage on The New York Times website. The international study, published in The Lancet this month, was the first to report on the rates and causes of global mortality in people aged 10-24. … Continued

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Does Clinical Outreach Make a Difference?

“If I known about Frontyard and YPHS when I was 15, I would have found help then, and maybe my life would be different.” (20yr old homeless mother) An Evaluation of clinical street outreach in Melbourne’s CBD 2009 – Written by Donna Eade Executive Summary of the YPHS clinical street outreach (CSO) evaluation, 2009. YPHS … Continued

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Congratulations to Prof. George Patton

Congratulations to Prof George Patton who was awarded the TheSchering-Plough (Organon) Senior Research Award. His presentation was on  “What’s a guy like you doing in a place like this?’” The annual Schering-Plough (Organon) Senior Research Award is made to the Fellow who has made the most significant contribution to Psychiatric research in Australia and New … Continued

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CAH Events

Adolescent Health Linkage Program The Adolescent Health Linkage Program is set to continue for another two years thanks to generous support of The Invergowrie Foundation. The program involves the delivery of an interdisciplinary professional develpment program for a select group of women working with young people in regional, rural and remote communities in Victoria. The … Continued

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Congratulations to the MobileType team

Congratulations to the MobileType team who have just been awarded $280,000 from the Telstra Foundation for mounting an RCT in primary care In the news… Snapshots of our Lives – from 17th December 2007 to 12th January 2008 at Melbourne City Library Launch of Young Australians: their health and wellbeing 2007 – 30th May 2007 Heavy cannabis use … Continued

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