Mental Health

Mental health links

Links to relevant mental health websites.

• Auseinet - Australian Network for Promotion, Prevention and Early Intervention for Mental Health. View archived Ausienet publications on the National Library of Australia's Pandora archive.
  
  
• Australian Child and Adolescent Trauma, Loss and Grief Network - a network linking people across Australia concerned with the trauma, loss and grief experiences of children and adolescents.
  
  
• Australian Mental Health Outcomes and Classification Network (AMHOCN) - provides national leadership in the development of outcomes and casemix concepts in mental health.
  
  
• beyondblue (the national depression initiative) - provides national leadership to increase community awareness, prevention and early intervention of depression and related illnesses.
  
  
• Black Dog Institute - a not-for-profit, educational, research, clinical and community-oriented facility offering specialist expertise in depression and bipolar disorder.
  
  
• Bush Support Services - provides support to health practitioners and their families in remote areas.
  
  
• Children of Parents with a Mental Illness - promotes better mental health outcomes for children whose parents have a mental illness.
  
  
• Clinical Research Unit for Anxiety and Depression (CRUfAD) - information and research on anxiety and depression for consumers and doctors.
  
  
• eheadspace - provides online counselling for young people in Australia.
  
  
• headspace (National Youth Mental Health Foundation) - provides health advice, support and information to young Australians aged 12-25.
  
  
• HealthInsite - information on a variety of health topics, including mental health.
  
  
• Helping Children with Autism - information on items in the Medicare Benefits Schedule; funding for training teachers and supporting playgroups; and early intervention and individual assistance packages for children and their families.
  
  
• Kids Help Line - provides a free 24 hour national telephone and online counselling service for young people aged between 5 and 25 in Australia.
  
  
• KidsMatter - a mental health promotion, prevention and early intervention initiative for children through universal evidence-based primary school and early childhood programs.
  
  
• Lifeline Australia - the peak body for Lifeline Centres which provide telephone counselling, and information, referral and associated services in local areas.
  
  
• Living is for Everyone (LIFE) - suicide and self-harm prevention in Australia.
  
  
• Mental Health in Multicultural Australia (MHiMA) - builds awareness of mental health and suicide prevention amongst Australians from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds.
  
  
• Mental Health Professionals Network - supports collaboration in Australia's primary mental health sector by fostering local interdisciplinary networks of mental health professionals.
  
  
• Mental Health Standing Committee
  
  
• Mindframe National Media Initiative - information about suicide and mental illness and the portrayal of these issues in the news media and on stage and screen in Australia.
  
  
• mindhealthconnect - national e-mental health online portal.
  
  
• MindMatters - the mental health promotion, prevention and early intervention framework for Australian secondary schools.
  
  
• National Eating Disorders Collaboration (NEDC) - a voluntary collaboration that brings together eating disorders stakeholders and experts in mental health, public health, health promotion, education, research and the media to help develop a nationally consisent approach to eating disorders in Australia.
  
  
• National Health Reform - changes to Australia's health system under the National Health Reform Agreement.
  
  
• National Mental Health Consumer and Carer Forum - the national voice for consumers and carers participating in the development of mental health policy and sector development in Australia.
  
  
• National Mental Health Service Planning Framework (NMHSPF) - developing a population based planning model for mental health.
  
  
• Response Ability - aims to better prepare student teachers and children's services workers in mental health promotion, prevention and early intervention through the use of multi-media packages in Australian tertiary institutions.
  
  
• StigmaWatch - promotes accurate, respectful and sensitive reporting of mental illness and suicide in the media.

Page last reviewed: 19 April 2012