The Infant, Child and Adolescent System Transformation Program (ICA Program) is transforming and continually improving the public mental health system to meet the needs of young people in WA from the day they are born until they turn 18. 

The ICA Program is guided by the Final Report - Ministerial Taskforce into Public Mental Health Services for Infants, Children and Adolescents aged 0 – 18 years in WA. 

The State Government has invested more than $235 million into transforming the mental health system for children and young people since 2022. 

Ministerial Taskforce

The independent Ministerial Taskforce into Public Mental Health Services for Infants, Children and Adolescents aged 0-18 years in Western Australia (ICA Taskforce) was established in 2020. The ICA Taskforce outlined a whole of system plan for the public specialist infant, child and adolescent mental health services in Western Australia to meet the mental health needs of children and young people.

The ICA Taskforce was charged with investigating the pressures and demands on the state’s mental health system and reporting to Government on how to ensure children receive the treatment and care they need, when they need it.

The ICA Taskforce was led by an independent chair and has actively engaged children, young people, families, clinicians, support providers, and other key stakeholders in the design of public specialist child and adolescent mental health services for infants, children and adolescents aged 0 – 18 years that fit the unique metropolitan, regional, rural and remote circumstances of WA.

The State Government published the ICA Taskforce Report in March 2022.