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The government's promising to take some of the pressure off child and adolescent mental health services as part of a $100m Budget 2022 spend over four years.
It includes $27m for community-based crisis services including home based respite and community crisis teams to help get people out of hospitals.
Almost $19m is for specialist child and adolescent mental health and addictions services.
Workforce development gets $10 million. But the big ticket item, at $90 million, is the expansion of the Mana Ake - the school based mental health programme that gives children the skill and support to deal with challenging things like bullying, grief and the separation of parents.
Health Minister Andrew Little details how it will work.