In the year since Victoria launched its flagship youth mental health service as a landmark response to a royal commission, the institution has quietly unravelled — its founding CEO managing from another state while staff reported violence, drug use, and a leadership culture more attentive to reputation than to the young people in its care. Dr Leanne Geppert's resignation this week closes one chapter, but the deeper question it raises is whether a service born of genuine ambition can recover its purpose when the foundations have already begun to crack.
FIFO CEO resigns from Victoria's flagship youth mental health service amid staff exodus
Staff report deteriorating patient care, violent incidents within the facility, and widespread drug use affecting vulnerable youth aged 12-25.