Headspace facing funding crisis

Young people will be turned away from clinics of popular youth mental health service Headspace because funding has been frozen, experts warn.

Documents obtained by the ABC show the federal Department of Health has told the centres their funding will not be indexed and it will remain the same for 2015-16.

Professor Ian Hickie from the Brain and Mind Research Institute, which runs one of Australia's busiest Headspace centres at the University of Sydney, said he was worried young people would miss out on crucial mental health services.

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