In 2004, with the assistance of the Commonwealth Department of Health and Ageing, the Family Law Courts initiated the Mental Health Support Project, which was piloted in the Courts’ Darwin and Adelaide registries. The pilot tested a variety of approaches to improving mental health support for Family Law Court clients.
At the time the pilot was completed, other relevant client service initiatives were also reaching their conclusion and it was decided that the learnings from all these initiatives were to be consolidated, thus forming the Integrated Client Service Delivery Program.
The program was funded under an agreement between the courts and the Department of Health and Ageing’s National Suicide Prevention Strategy.