Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS)
CAMHS are specialist mental health services for children and adolescents up to the age of 18yrs and their families.
They provide priority access for:
- Children, adolescents and families at highest risk for current or future impairment.
- People with the greatest need for specialist intensive and/or long-term mental health interventions.
- People who have been exposed to multiple risk factors for mental health problems.
CAMHS services vary in each Area Health Service. Services provided include:
- Specialist community based services for children and adolescents and their families
- Specialist community based support for Children of Parents with a Mental Illness
- Specialist day programs for more intensive treatment
- Specialist acute and non-acute inpatient services for children and adolescents
- Specialist outreach services (e.g. telepsychiatry program to increase support in rural communities)
- Forensic services for adolescents whose mental health problems have led to interaction with the justice system.
Find your local CAMHS
Central Coast
Learn more about the Central Coast Mental Health Service.
Contact: 1800 011 511 or 4304 7870
Eastern Sydney
Phone contact:
- 1800 011 511 or (02) 9382 1564
- (02) 9382 4347 or (02) 8198 7300 (St. George)
Illawarra
Learn more about the Illawarra Shoalhaven Local Health District.
Phone contact: 1800 011 511
Nepean Blue Mountains
Learn more about the Nepean Blue Mountains Local Health District.
Phone contact: 1800 011 511
Northern Sydney
Learn more about the Northern Sydney Local Health District.
Phone contact:
- 1800 011 511 or 02 9485 6155 (Hornsby)
- 02 9466 2500 (Northen Beaches)
- 02 9448 6877 (Ryde)
- 02 9462 9222 (North Shore)
South Eastern Sydney
Learn more about the South Eastern Sydney Local Health District.
Phone: 1800 011 511
South Western Sydney
Learn more about South Western Sydney
Phone: 1800 011 511
Western Sydney
Learn more about Western Sydney Local Health District Mental Health Services.
Phone: 1800 011 511
Sydney
Learn more about Sydney Local Health District.
Phone: 1800 011 511 or 9562 5640
Rural & Regional NSW
- Far West:1800 011 511 or 08 8082 6111 (Broken Hill), 03 5021 7200 (Dareton)
- Hunter New England:1800 011 511 or 4033 5000
- Mid North Coast: 1800 011 511
- Murrumbidgee: 1800 011 511
- Northern NSW: 1800 011 511
- Southern NSW: 1800 011 511
- Western NSW: 1800 011 511 or (02) 6369 7320