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 Crisis Line - provides psychological support to health practitioners and their families in remote areas.
  
  
• Children of Parents with a Mental Illness - promotes beter 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 - part of a 12-month pilot of drought reform measures, this website provides online counselling for young people in the WA pilot area.
  
  
• headspace (National Youth Mental Health Foundation) - delivers improvements in the mental health, social wellbeing and economic participation of young Australians aged 12-25.
  
  
• HealthInsite - information on important health topics, including mental health.
  
  
• Helping Children with Autism - information on items in the Medicare Benefits Scedule; 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 children and young people aged 5 to 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.
  
  
  • Lifeline Information Service (Just Ask) - a nationwide service providing mental health and self-help resources.
    
    
  • Lifeline Service Finder (Just Look) - a directory of free or low cost health and community services available in Australia.
    
    
• Living is for Everyone (LIFE) - suicide and self-harm prevention in Australia.
  
  
• Mental health & well being - information on Commonwealth mental health and wellbeing activity in Australia.
  
  
• Mental Health Council of Australia (MHCA) - represents and promotes the interests of the Australian mental health sector.
  
  
• 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.
  
  
• MindMatters - the mental health promotion, prevention and early intervention framework for Australian secondary schools.
  
  
• Multicultural Mental Health Australia (MMHA) - builds awareness of mental health and suicide prevention amongst Australians from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds.
  
  
• 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 Mental Health Consumer and Carer Forum - the endorsed mechanism through which the AHMAC Mental Health Standing Committee selects consumer and carer representatives onto its committees to progress mental health issues of national significance.
  
  
• National Mental Health Seclusion and Restraint Project (NMHSRP) - aims to reduce and, where possible, eliminate seclusion and restraint in public mental health services.
  
  
• Response Ability - aims to better prepare student teachers and children's services workers in mental health promotion, prevention and early intervention through Response Ability multi-media packages in Australian universities, tertiary colleges and the VET sector.
  
  
• StigmaWatch - promotes accurate, respectful and sensitive reporting of mental illness and suicide in the media.
  
  
• yourHealth - enables Australians to provide their views to the Australian Government about options to improve the health system.

Page last reviewed: 7 September 2010