Labor backs SA youth psychosis centre

Labor has pledged to continue direct funding for six early psychosis centres around Australia if it wins the July 2 poll.

The centres treat young people with mental health issues and opposition mental health spokeswoman Katy Gallagher says if they close, those people will miss out on early intervention.

Under federal government reforms mental health services are being moved to primary health networks across the country which will commission services for young people at risk of mental illness.

Senator Gallagher said the government was dismantling a model that had proved, evidence-based, results.

"People don't magically get rid of early psychosis, they have an ongoing impact," she told reporters in Adelaide on Wednesday.

She said the government's plan would lose the specialised focus provided by an early psychosis centre.

"We would want to keep that, we would want to build on the model and ensure that those centres are reaching out to people," the senator said.

Health Minister Sussan Ley said existing clients of the Adelaide Headspace centre would be able to complete their treatment.

"The Turnbull coalition is already undertaking mental health reform, based on the advice of the experts," she said in a statement.

"That will provide all South Australians better access to the mental health services their local communities need, rather than centralising them in the city only."