2025

Hundreds of university students have started the new year by taking positive action on their mental health at Orygen’s O-Week activities. 

The Orygen Digital team attended six days of O-Week events at University of Melbourne, Victoria University,  Canberra Institute of Technology and Holmesglen Institute. 

Staff, including clinicians and peer workers, were on hand to showcase Orygen Digital’s evidence-based digital tools, including the MOST and Mello apps. 

MOST is a free, multi-award winning digital mental health service that connects young people with clinicians, peer workers and other young people going through similar experiences.  

Young people aged 15-25 in Victoria, the ACT and Queensland can sign themselves up directly to MOST. Soon, all young people across Australia will be able to access MOST.  

Mello is a free mental health app designed to break unhealthy worry or ‘stuck thinking’ patterns. Also known as rumination, ‘stuck thinking’ is a core driver of depression, anxiety and many other mental health conditions. 

Studies show both apps are very popular with young users, and they proved just as popular at the university O-Week events where hundreds of young people joined the platforms. 

“Orygen Digital is focused on solving the access problem and meeting young people where they are, so what better opportunity to share our work than to meet young people as they start an exciting but formative period of their lives,” Jon Myer, General Manager of Orygen Digital, said. 

“It was inspiring to see so many young people so eager to take control of their own mental health and wellbeing.” 

Orygen Digital was able to attend O-Week activities with the generous support of the Telstra Foundation.