Towards a comprehensive child mental health system: Exploring workforce availability

An Emerging Minds webinar

Wednesday 29 October 2025, 10:00 – 11:00 am (AEST) | Online

Recognising that mental health is part of children’s overall development – something that is shaped by their family, community and environment – can help shift the focus beyond just diagnosing conditions. It encourages a broader approach that supports the continuum of mental health and wellbeing, benefiting all children. Understanding the experiences and needs of children, families and workforces better equips practitioners, organisations and systems to deliver the right care at the right time.

This is the first webinar in a three-part series titled Towards a comprehensive child mental health system: Exploring data and policy.

This webinar will:

• present data on the prevalence of child mental conditions; indictors of mental health vulnerability; service usage; and risk and protective factors
• examine a broader conceptualisation of the child mental health workforce and current workforce distribution
• introduce Emerging Minds’ vision for a comprehensive and coordinated child mental health system.

The webinar unpacks national Australian datasets to draw out insights about population need (current and future) and workforce availability, exploring the opportunity that exists to leverage the engagement many professionals have with children and families every day across Australia.

The session aims to support organisations’ use of local data to inform the design of optimal, localised workforce and service responses.

The webinar is free to attend, but registration is required.