We are working towards a better future for young people, where mental health problems are significantly reduced in prevalence and severity.

Our mission is to:

• Reduce the number of young people who experience mental health problems, particularly anxiety and depression,
• Help young people enter adulthood with greater resilience to mental health conditions, and thereby
• Reduce the number of young people who take their own lives.

We strive to help build a future where:

• The pathways and mechanisms of key mental health disorders, especially depression and anxiety, are understood and widely applied to innovations in practice and policy.
• Knowledge and skills for protecting and nurturing mental health are available to young people and their families, and to practitioners.
• Healthcare policy and practice address the ‘whole self’ at the earliest appropriate points in the development cycle of mental health conditions.