The Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS) in Western Australia offers support, advice and treatment to young people and their families who are experiencing mental health issues. Children and families are referred to Mental Health by their treating therapist, specialist, GP, School or other community organisation.
CAMHS provides recovery-focused programs, and services for children from birth up until a person turns 18 years old.
We are in the community and hospital setting. Families may receive services from one or more of these areas.
The three main areas of Mental Health are:
Coronavirus update
We are changing the way we work to help reduce the risk of Coronavirus.
We will continue to support you and your family but the way we work might look and feel different, so we can reduce the chance of infection.
Telehealth appointments
We are working to limit the amount of
direct contact to lower infection risks to you and our staff. This means we are making more telephone appointments and moving some appointments to
Telehealth, a web-based video consultation service.
A Telehealth appointment is just like any other appointment. The only difference is you will be talking to your clinician on the telephone or seeing them on a screen. These consultations are best run in Google Chrome. Read more about Telehealth appointments here.
Keeping in touch
You will receive a SMS before any appointments where we will do a health check-in with you before we meet.
We will also use SMS when we need to give you updates or information about how we are trying to reduce the risk of infection.
You can still call us on our regular clinic number, however calls will be diverted to another service who will be able talk to you.
Who we are seeing
During this critical time, we are prioritising referrals for young people with severe mental health disorders associated with significant vulnerability and high-risk factors. This is an interim measure while we experience reduced workforce capacity.
If you need urgent mental health advice and support for you or your child, there is a 24 hour Crisis Support Line on 1800 048 636. If the situation is life-threatening, please call 000 or go to your nearest emergency department.
Need mental health support? Visit Get help.