Growing numbers of young people are reaching breaking point before seeking counselling, often due to the perceived stigma around asking for help.
A 2025 impact report by the Kids Helpline says crisis interventions have more than tripled over the past seven years.
A Kids Helpline crisis intervention involves a professional counsellor contacting emergency services or child protection authorities when a young person is deemed to be at immediate risk of harm.
The service responded to 5190 crisis interventions in 2025, an increase of 350 per cent since 2018.
The report also found First Nations young people represented nine per cent of all contacts to the service in 2025, a figure that is more than double their proportion of the Australian population.
