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Working with young people with mental health issues
Services in the Nepean area
The Mental Health Access Team, Blue Mountains, Hawkesbury & Penrith
Phone: 1800 650 749
Description: Phone the Mental Health Access Team for help with any mental health problem. The Team will also provide referrals to mental health services in your local area.
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Early Psychosis Intervention Centre (EPI Centre)
Phone: (02) 4732 6283
Address: Suite 4, 481 High St, Penrith
Description: The EPI Centre provides specialist early psychosis services and education to the Blue Mountains, Hawkesbury and Penrith areas. Services include joint assessment and case management, family intervention and family education. The EPI Centre also provides specific interventions, such as cognitive behavioural therapy, advocacy for clients with other agencies and early psychosis education for school counsellors and general practitioners.
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State wide services
Mental Health Association NSW
Phone: (02) 9816 1611
Email: mha@mentalhealth.asn.au
Description: The Mental Health Association NSW is a non-government organisation and registered charity. Their mission is to promote opportunities for the people of NSW to achieve their optimal level of mental health through providing information services, education about protecting mental health, mutual support and advocacy services.
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NSW Association for Adolescent Health (NAAH)
Phone: (02) 9569 7333
Email: admin@naah.org.au
Web: www.naah.org.au
Description: The NSW Association for Adolescent Health is the peak body committed to promoting the health and well being of young people aged 12 - 25. The principles guiding the association are a holistic approach to health, intersectoral collaboration, empowerment and social justice.
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NSW Centre for the Advancement of Adolescent Health (CAAH)
Phone: (02) 9845 3338
Email: caah@chw.edu.au
Web: www.caah.chw.edu.au
Description: CAAH works to protect and promote the health and well-being of young people in NSW by partnering with health care, non-government, education, academic, community and advocacy bodies to ensure better adolescent health outcomes.
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Transcultural Mental Health Centre
Phone: (02) 9840 9309, 1800 648 911
Web: www.tmhc.nsw.gov.au
Description: The Transcultural Mental Health Centre is a statewide service and promotes access to mental health services for people of non-English speaking background (NESB). The Centre also works with consumers, carers, health professionals and the community to encourage positive attitudes to mental health.
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Schizophrenia Fellowship of NSW
Phone: 02 9879 2600
Email: admin@sfnsw.org.au
Web: www.sfnsw.org.au
Description: The Schizophrenia Fellowship of NSW is committed to improving the circumstances and welfare of people living with schizophrenia, their relatives and carers, and professionals working in the area.
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Health Care Complaints Commission
Phone: 02 9219 7444, Toll Free in NSW 1800 043 159
TTY service for the hearing impaired: 02 9219 7555
Fax: 02 9281 4585
Street Address: Level 13, 323 Castlereagh Street, Sydney 2000
Post Address: Locked Mail Bag 18, Strawberry Hills, 2012
Email: hccc@hccc.nsw.gov.au
Web: www.hccc.nsw.gov.au
Description: The NSW Health Care Complaints Commission (HCCC) acts in the public interest by receiving, reviewing and investigating complaints about health care in NSW.
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Carers NSW
Phone: 02 9280 4744
Email: contact@carersnsw.asn.au
Web: www.carersnsw.asn.au
Description: Carers NSW is an association for relatives and friends who are caring for people with a disability, mental illness, chronic condition or who are frail aged.
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NSW Consumer Advisory Group, Mental Health
Phone: 02 9556 9219
Email: info.nswcag@tpg.com.au
Web: www.mentalhealth.asn.au/members/nswcag
Description: The New South Wales Consumer Advisory Group - Mental Health (NSW CAG) is a statewide, incorporated, non-government organisation that provides an ongoing mechanism for mental health consumer and carer participation into policy development, service development, and the implementation and evaluation of the National Mental Health Strategy. NSW CAG acts as a bridge between both state and federal governments and mental health consumers and carers. An essential part of NSW CAG's role is to encourage consumer and carer input in decision making at all levels concerning mental health provision.
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ARAFMI (Association for Relatives and Friends of the Mentally Ill)
Family and Friends Promoting Mental Health and Wellbeing
Phone: 02 9887 5897, 1800 802 840 (24 hours)
Web: www.arafmi.org
Description: ARAFMI NSW provides support and advocacy for families and friends with mental illness.
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Auseinet
Phone: 08 8201 7670
Web: www.auseinet.com
Description: The Australian Network for Promotion, Prevention and Early Intervention for Mental Health (Auseinet) is a national project funded by the Australian Department of Health and Ageing under the Mental Health Strategy and the National Suicide Prevention Strategy. The project includes promotion, prevention and early intervention (PPEI), as well as suicide prevention, across the entire lifespan. The project aims to provide information, education and support for mental health workers and other sectors and the community.
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Reach Out!
Web: www.reachout.com.au
Service Description: Reach Out! is an Internet-based service that helps young people get through tough times. It provides information, assistance and referrals in a format that appeals to young people, and offers an anonymous and stigma-free way to get help, explore issues, and discover how other young people have got through difficult times.
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YBBlue
Web: www.beyondblue.org.au/ybblue
Description: Ybblue is a community awareness campaign designed to reduce the stigma associated with depression and to promote help seeking behaviour in young people aged 17 to 25. The campaign is intended to educate friends and families of young people and highlight behaviours that suggest a young person may be at increased risk of depression and other health compromising behaviours. Ybblue is a youth program of beyondblue: the national depression initiative.
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Beyond Blue
Description: Beyond Blue is an organisation devoted to increasing awareness and understanding of depression in the community.