Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:F2024C01281:clause:1ab_205
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:F2024C01281
Segment Type: clause
Provision Reference: sch 1AB cl 205
Character Range: 674165–678308

205       Headspace                                                                                                                                            To provide funding for youth‑friendly community‑based mental health services for young Australians aged 12 to 25 with, or at risk of developing, mental illness and associated drug and alcohol problems, including by:
                                                                                                                                                               (a) providing a Centre of Excellence to promote evidence‑based practice; and
                                                                                                                                                               (b) leading the design and delivery of early identification and intervention strategies; and
                                                                                                                                                               (c) fostering community awareness of youth mental health and drug and alcohol issues; and
                                                                                                                                                               (d) implementing a grants program to support local, integrated approaches to enhance and facilitate the coordination of services; and
                                                                                                                                                               (e) developing and disseminating evidence‑based education, training and resources for general practitioners and other service providers; and
                                                                                                                                                               (f) establishing and delivering eheadspace, a national telephone and web‑based support service; and
                                                                                                                                                               (g) maintaining centralised management and support to service sites by the headspace national office, including standardised data collection, clinical expertise and staff training; and
                                                                                                                                                               (h) implementing a framework for ongoing independent evaluation and data training.
                                                                                                                                                               This objective also has the effect it would have if it were limited to measures:
                                                                                                                                                               (a) providing medical services (within the meaning of paragraph 51(xxiiiA) of the Constitution) and incidental to the provision of those services; or
                                                                                                                                                               (b) giving effect to Australia's obligations under the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (particularly Articles 2 and 12); or
                                                                                                                                                               (c) carried out in, or in relation to, a Territory; or
                                                                                                                                                               (d) for the collection, analysis, dissemination or use of statistics (within the meaning of paragraph 51(xi) of the Constitution); or
                                                                                                                                                               (e) in connection with telephonic or electronic communications.