Yet access to mental health care for young people is often poor because they slip through the cracks of where the children's and adult systems meet. In the UK, efforts have focused on improving the transition between children's and adult mental health services for those that need ongoing support into adulthood.
In Melbourne, Australia, a different approach has evolved since the early 1990s. Instead of a "hard boundary" at 18, health commissioners in Australia have endorsed an approach that uses "transition zones" in mental health care covering the 0-12 and 12-25 age ranges.
In Melbourne, Australia's second largest city, a specialist youth mental health service called Orygen has been developed. It provides primary and specialist mental health care to 5,000 young people each year.
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