Reach Out! Innovation in service delivery.

• With 75% of mental illness beginning before 25 years of age, it is essential that we improve young people’s capacity to manage adversity and increase their opportunities for accessing professional help. • With its unique ability to connect people to information and to other people, the Internet offers opportunities to engage the 70% of young people with mental health problems who currently are not seeking professional help. • Reach Out! is a national Internet-based mental health service for young people. It has been accessed by over 6 million users since its launch in 1998. • Reach Out! plays a role in the prevention of mental health problems by: ae facilitating help-seeking and connecting young people with services, such as general practitioners, and allied and mental health professionals in their local communities; and ae providing opportunities for all young people to develop the skills and capacity to better understand mental health difficulties and manage adversity, thereby complementing