Early intervention key to saving Aust kids

NICOLE Anderson's memories of her childhood are patchy and marred by the trauma of her mother's struggle with paranoid schizophrenia.

It was only when she received treatment for postpartum depression that the now 46-year-old remembered being taken from her mother when she was four years old.

A new report by the Benevolent Society has found such childhood trauma can have lifelong consequences, for the person involved and for the entire community.

Early intervention can help turn around lives like Ms Anderson's and prevent an entrenched cycle of adversity, but the report says more needs to be done to support disadvantaged kids.

It found one in seven children have emotional or behavioural problems, yet fewer than half of those in need of mental health treatment get it.

One in six live below the poverty line and one in five are vulnerable to falling behind when they start school.

Early intervention is critical, Benevolent Society chief executive Anne Hollonds said.

"This is not just about kids, this is about all of us."

With the help of a counsellor Mrs Anderson was able to climb out of the "black hole" of depression.

She says getting treatment hasn't just helped her get on with her life - it's helped her break the cycle of illness for her own two young daughters, Sienna and Meika.

"It's made me a better mum," she told AAP.

"If I do get sad or angry, anxious, I can explain what I was never explained ... as a child."

"Mummies do get sad."

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