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First Nations elders dismayed about FIFO mental health model planned for South Australia's APY Lands

Vulnerable children living in some of Australia's most remote communities are set to be left without a permanent, in-community mental health service, despite objections from elders, experts and one of the South Australian government's own departments.

The ABC has seen a draft of the new model of care for the Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service (CAMHS) on the Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara (APY) Lands, which provides psychiatric and wellbeing support to children aged 18 and under.

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