About Embrace

Together with our partners, researchers at Embrace want to make a difference to the lives of children and young people who experience mental health challenges.

Half of all mental illness begins before the age of 14 with most cases going undetected or untreated. And 75% of people who have mental illness develop symptoms before they turn 25. And in Western Australia alone, suicide is the leading cause of death for young people aged 15-24 years.

Childhood and young adulthood therefore present the greatest opportunity for prevention and early intervention for mental health concerns.

• Embrace aims to provide objective, evidence-based research findings and prospective concepts of the highest quality to inform and influence clinical practice and care.

• Embrace will strive to consolidate and develop working relationships and partnerships with researchers, clinicians, service providers, policy makers and community members.
• Embrace values the experiences of children, young people, families, service providers and community stakeholders and use those views to inform our work.
• Embrace researchers are leaders in child, youth and family community consultation.