Our vision
To create a life free from mental illness.
Why Breakthrough
Mental illness is going to be the biggest health challenge in our life time. It consumes lives, ruins lives and takes lives.
Mind and brain research is the only way to know what action needs to be taken to create a life free from mental illness.
Right now, one in five Australians has a mental health issue, and more people between 15-44 years are dying from suicide than any other cause.
This is not acceptable.
Be part of the Breakthrough
What causes mental illness, how to treat it and how to prevent it from happening are still the big unknowns.
It is going to take a truly collective effort to achieve the research breakthroughs we so desperately need to create a life free from mental illness – it’s everybody’s business.
For more information about how you can help, click here.
Debbie’s Story
Debbie’s daughter Maddy took her own life. She would have been 25 this year.
“I am very passionate about supporting mental health research. I do not want suicide to have the devastating effect on others that it had on my family. I don’t want mental illness to cause pain to anyone else.”
New building to help tackle eating disorders
New building to help tackle eating disorders
New building to help tackle eating disorders
Breakthrough Mental Health Research Foundation is proposing to build a world-class centre for excellence for eating disorder services in South Australia.
The new Statewide Eating Disorders Service (SEDS) building will bring together the best clinical service in Australia and integrate it with a world leading research team.
The aim, Breakthrough Executive Director John Mannion says, is to provide the best treatment for people with eating disorders and their families, while also seeking answers to this all-consuming disease.
Learn more about the new SEDS building here.
Funded research projects
EATing together to reduce chronic loneliness in older people
Can sharing a meal with someone combat loneliness and depression in older people?
READ MOREImproving the mental health of young men through sport
Exploring whether infiltrating traditional masculinised sport settings is the key to improving young men’s mental health.
READ MORENew programs to support vulnerable youth at risk of suicide
Vulnerable young people at risk of self-harm and suicide will receive innovative therapy
READ MORENew treatment program for post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)
Researchers will trial a more flexible treatment program for people suffering PTSD
READ MOREDoctors’ mental health and suicide risk
Flinders researchers are looking to reduce suicide risk among one of the groups at highest risk of poor mental health... doctors
READ MOREMotivational interviewing virtual training tool
Researchers are developing a new 'motivational interviewing' virtual software tool
READ MOREKicking bullying to the kerb in schools
You can prevent the harmful effects of bullying in primary schools by supporting a new research-based approach.
READ MOREAre eating disorders in the genes?
Why does somebody develop an eating disorder? It’s an incredibly difficult question – but with your help an answer is possible.
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Research Themes
Research will find the causes and triggers of mental illness, help us to recognise the early warning signs, guide the development of new technology, and make sure that mental health treatment is based on the best scientific evidence.
Research breakthroughs will ultimately prevent and cure mental illness.
Through an annual grants program, Breakthrough Mental Health Research Foundation will fund projects focused on four research themes (listed below) to create a life free from mental illness.
To increase our knowledge about what is happening in the brain that causes a mental illness. Read More…
Recognising the signs of mental health issues and stopping them as soon as possible before they turn into a mental illness which consumes, ruins or takes lives. Read More…
Developing new ways to manage mental health issues and prevent and cure mental illness. Read More…
Turning research into practice and closing the gap between research discoveries and real benefits for people. Read More…
