Our Benefits
Benefits to Young People
- Improved communication and information sharing between young people and the community
- Greater ownership of responsibility for young person
- Improvements in academic performance and school attendance
- Reduced number of incidents of problematic/maladaptive and risky behaviours
- Reduced cases of coming into contact with criminal justice and homelessness
- Reduced need for hospitalisation (hospital avoidance) and reduced length of stay (LOS)
- Reduction in use of coercive interventions and decrease in chances of traumatisation associated with coercive interventions
Supporting Young People
Benefits to Agencies and Organisations
- Significant improvement in competency for those working with young people
- Increased family collaboration with mental health services
- Improved safety for families, teachers, carers and adolescents and increased confidence in engaging with distressed adolescents
- Greater awareness of youth mental health in society
- Substantial cost saving benefits to lead agencies and government
- Reduced duplication of services and decreased need for emergency/specialist interventions
- Transferrable change at the system/structural level, facilitating a positive cultural shift
We value Integrity, Innovation, Compassion and Community.
Equi Energy Youth is dedicated to preventing youth suicide, self-harm and acute psychological distress globally through healthy community connections.
