SWIMMER Grant Hackett, former South Australian premier Dean Brown, economist Cliff Walsh and young Australian of the year Trisha Broadbridge are among a high profile team to advise the Federal Government on youth mental health.
The National Youth Mental Health Foundation Advisory Board will work on improving access to mental health services for 12 to 25 year olds.
Parliamentary secretary for Health Christopher Pyne said the board members “bring expertise in the fields of mental health, media, communications, business, sport, politics, education, indigenous health, youth employment and churches”.
Doctors, however, have criticised the Government’s priorities, claiming the board lacked clinical expertise and that medical experts should have been appointed before Olympians. The board is part of $69 million in youth mental health initiatives announced in last year’s Budget.
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