Kids Help Line
24 hour telephone counselling of 5 to 25 year olds
Free Call: 1800 55 1800
www.kidshelpline.com.au
Headspace Greensborough
Level 1, 78 Main Street, Greensborough, Victoria 3088
Headspace provides support, information and assistance for young people aged 12 to 25 years who are experiencing emotional or mental health issues and/or substance use issues. You can access headspace Greensborough even if your problem seems to be really small or really huge.
Phone: 9433 7200
For phone intake call 1300 880 218
www.headspace.org.au/headspace-centres/greensborough/
www.headspace.org.au
www.eheadspace.org.au
Austin Heath, Child and Youth Mental Health Service(CYMHS)
Specialist mental health service for children and adolescents up to the age of 18.
Phone: 1300 859 789 then select age of the person requiring assistance
www.health.vic.gov.au/mentalhealth/services/child/index.htm
https://www.austin.org.au/mental-health/get-help-for-a-young-person/
Yarning SafeNStrong helpline for Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Peoples
Yarning SafeNStrong is a dedicated free and confidential counselling service for Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Peoples run by the Victorian Aboriginal Health Service (VAHS). You can call Yarning SafeNStrong if you are feeling like you want to talk to someone because you are feeling down or you just feel like having a yarn. VAHS have counsellors you can yarn safely with and who can also support you to access extra help with financial wellbeing, counselling, drug & alcohol counselling & rehab services and medical help including COVID19 testing.
Phone: 1800 95 95 63 from 12pm to 10pm 7 days a week
https://www.vahs.org.au/yarning-safe-n-strong-media/
LIFT Stepped Care Model for Mental Health
LIFT is a free service that ensures every person seeking help with a mental health concern receives the right care at the right time for the right person. LIFT provides expert support from mental health nurses, psychologists and counsellors via online, face to face, group support and telephone. LIFT is available to people who live, work or study in the Banyule, Whittlesea, Nillumbik and surrounding areas who are not able to afford or access similar services.
For Banyule LIFT services, contact Banyule Community Health Service
Phone: 9450 2005
Greensborough: 25 Grimshaw Street, Greensborough
West Heidelberg: 21 Alamein Rd, West Heidelberg
LIFT stepped care model
We Can Help
If you would like to find out about other general support options you can contact our team at the Banyule Youth Service during business hours on 9457 9855 or try our extended hours outreach team line on 1800 254 658. However, please be aware we are not a crisis service. Please try the numbers listed below if you require immediate assistance.
You can also email us with any queries at banyuleyouth@banyule.vic.gov.au
Kids Help Line
24 hour telephone counselling of 5 to 25 year olds
Free Call: 1800 55 1800
www.kidshelpline.com.au
Suicide Help Line
Ph: 1300 651 251
www.suicideline.org.au
Suicide Call Back Service
24-hour 7 days Crisis Service. Suicide and counselling call back service.
Nationwide service: 1300 659 467
www.suicidecallbackservice.org.au
Lifeline
Ph: 13 11 14
24 hour telephone counselling service. Online crisis support chat also available 7pm – Midnight (Sydney Time) 7 days a week.
www.lifeline.com.au
Grief line
Anonymous loss and grief counselling, 8am to 8pm daily.
Helpline: 1300 845 745
www.griefline.org.au
Yarning SafeNStrong helpline for Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Peoples
Yarning SafeNStrong is a dedicated free and confidential counselling service for Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Peoples run by the Victorian Aboriginal Health Service (VAHS). You can call Yarning SafeNStrong if you are feeling like you want to talk to someone because you are feeling down or you just feel like having a yarn.
Phone: 1800 95 95 63 from 12pm to 10pm 7 days a week
https://www.vahs.org.au/yarning-safe-n-strong-media/
DirectLine
24 hours, 7 days a week drug and alcohol counselling. It is also an information and referral service.
Freecall: 1800 888 236
www.directline.org.au
Sexual Assault Crisis Line
Crisis counselling, information, crisis support and referral.
Phone: 1800 806 292 (Crisis line, after hours and weekends)
The North East Crisis Assessment & Treatment Service (NECATS) provides a mobile, responsive and accessible assessment service and intensive community based treatment to consumers experiencing a serious psychiatric illness in acute crisis as an alternative to hospitalisation, where possible.
CATS is a 24-hour, 7 days a week team of mental health professionals who provide urgent assessment and short-term intensive treatment to people in crisis due to mental illness. The service will organise a hospital admission if necessary.
NEAMHS Triage Service
1300 859 789
Mental Health Care Plans
A Mental Health Care Plan is a special referral from your GP that entitles you up to 10 annual subsidised sessions of psychotherapy billed to Medicare. To get a Mental Health Care Plan you just need to do the following things:
Book a double appointment with your local GP (a total of 30min)
Ask your GP for a Mental Health Care Plan
Your GP will make a referral to a counsellor or psychologist, then all you have to do is make the appointment
For more info click on the link below:
www.health.gov.au/internet/main/publishing.nsf/content/mental-ba-fact-pat
Headspace Greensborough
Level 1, 78 Main Street, Greensborough, Victoria 3088
Headspace provides support, information and assistance for young people aged 12 to 25 years who are experiencing emotional or mental health issues and/or substance use issues. You can access Headspace Collingwood even if your problem seems to be really small or really huge. At Headspace Collingwood you can receive support from a range of professionals including youth workers, intakes & assess workers, GP’s, psychologists, psychiatrists, occupational therapists, social workers, mental health nurses, and alcohol and other drug workers. These workers are skilled in listening to young people and can help you identify problems, goals and achieve creative solutions to issues.
Phone: 9433 7200
For phone intake call 1300 800 218
www.headspace.org.au/headspace-centres/greensborough/
www.headspace.org.au
www.eheadspace.org.au
Headspace Collingwood
Level 1, Victoria Park (Social Club Building)
Cnr Lulie & Abbott Streets
Abbotsford Vic 3067
Ph: 03 9417 0150
Austin Heath, Child and Youth Mental Health Service(CYMHS)
Specialist mental health service for children and adolescents up to the age of 18.
Phone: 1300 859 789 then select age of the person requiring assistance
www.health.vic.gov.au/mentalhealth/services/child/index.htm
www.austin.org.au/mentalhealth/CYMHS/
The Mental Health Community Intake Service – EACH
The Mental Health Community Intake service is a central access point for people with a severe mental illness, their carers and family, and referrers seeking community mental health services. All referrals or enquiries relating to community mental health services should be made to the dedicated telephone line (This is not a crisis service).
Phone: 1300 00 3224
Eligibility Criteria: People between 16 to 64 years who have a disability attributable to a diagnosed psychiatric condition
www.each.com.au
Support Connect
Support Connect helps people find mental health, alcohol and other drugs and suicide prevention services in eastern and north-eastern Melbourne.
tel: 98001071 (Monday-Friday, 9am-5pm)
Banyule Community Health Service
Staffed by community health nurses, young people can visit this service if they have concerns or questions about allied health, counselling, gambling, family support, financial help, support groups and dental. They can also get referral to other services.
Please call first if possible
West Heidelberg
21 Alamein Road, West Heidelberg.
Phone: 9450 2000.
Greensborough
3/25-33 Grimshaw Street
Greensborough.
Phone: 9433 5111.
www.bchs.org.au
Northern Centre Against Sexual Assault (CASA)
Northern CASA is the regional sexual assault service for the northern metropolitan region of Melbourne covering the local government areas of Banyule, Darebin, Nillumbik and Whittlesea. It is located on the Repatriation Campus of Austin Health and also operates a number of outposts in the Northern region.
Address: Building 26 Repatriation Hospital, 300 Waterdale Road, Heidelberg West 3081
Phone: General enquiries (9am-5pm) 9496 2369
Phone: Counselling line & referrals (12:30 – 5pm) 9496 2240
www.austin.org.au/northerncasa
ISN Clinic – Heidelberg
They offer generalist counselling services through a mental health care plan (with the Medicare rebate). This clinic is free, as the counsellors are final year University students who are studying psychology. The sessions are recorded for supervision. There are no limits to how many sessions people can access through the clinic.
Booking an intake call: (03) 9008 1616
Locations:
Ivanhoe
(By specific arrangement)
Community Clinic
Ivanhoe Offices
443 Upper Heidelberg Rd
Ivanhoe 3079
Bundoora
Community Clinic
University Hill
103/7 Ormond Boulevard
Bundoora 3083
Email: reception@isnclinic.net
Healthability
Healthability provide a range of services directly for young people aged 12 – 21 including assistance for young people disengaging from school, a needle exchange, dental health services, diet and nutrition advice and youth homelessness.
Address: 971 Main Road, Eltham 3095
Phone: 9430 9100
Email: enquiries@healthability.org.au
www.healthability.org.au
From Harm to Calm – Understanding and Responding to Deliberate Self-Harm
This booklet has been created in collaboration with young people who have challenged self-harm. It contains some ideas for people who want to further understand self-harm, and support someone to find alternative methods and coping strategies to find some calm in their lives. Included in this booklet are activities, information and resources that may help reduce or stop self-harming. A list of contacts is also provided at the back of this booklet, for those who would like more information or help with self-harm or any other issues.
https://healthability.org.au/groups-programs/from-harm-to-calm/
Berry Street
Berry Street provides services for young people which include: case management, outreach, life skills, mentoring and accommodation.
The Northern metro region covers the City of Banyule, Hume, Shire of Nillumbik, Whittlesea, Darebin, Merri-bek (formerly Moreland) and Yarra. We have been providing services in the Northern region since the early 1990s.
266 Raglan Street
Preston VIC 3072
Phone: 03 9450 4700
Fax: 03 9450 4701
Email: preston@berrystreet.org.au
RMIT Psychology Clinic
The RMIT Psychology Clinic offers a high quality low fee-based clinic for psychological services for children, adolescents and adults.
Address: UniHill Shopping Precinct, 30 Janefield Drive, Bundoora 3083
https://www.rmit.edu.au/healthclinic
Email: healthclinic@rmit.edu.au
Nasihah Consulting – Northern Psychology Clinic
Provides culturally appropriate counselling services for Muslim families and teens including marriage counselling in a variety of languages. Psychologists come from diverse ethnic and language backgrounds including Turkish, Arabic, Indo-Malay & Anglo-Australian. Nasihah can also conduct immigration reports.
Address: 13/11-17 Pearcedale Parade, Breadmeadows 3047
Phone: 9351 1166
www.nasihahconsulting.com
The Bouverie Centre
Provides free specialist family sensitive and family therapy services.
Address: 8 Gardiner Street, Brunswick
Phone: 03 8481 4800
www.bouverie.org.au
Reach Out!
Reach Out! is a service that helps young people through tough times. It provides information and support on a range of issues.
https://au.reachout.com/
Beyond Blue
Beyond Blue is the national depression initiative and Australia’s leading website on the issue.
www.youthbeyondblue.com
Mood Gym
Mood gym is an online program to help give people skills through cognitive behavioural therapy to help treat depression and anxiety
www.moodgym.com.au
Bullying. No Way!
Bullying. No Way! gives support and information to school students, their teachers and parents around the issue of bullying.
https://bullyingnoway.gov.au/
Love, Advice and Stories
A great site put together by the Domestic Violence Resource Centre
www.lovegoodbadugly.com
WOAH – What’s OK at Home
This website helps you to work out what’s okay in a family and what’s not. It tells you what you can do if someone in your family is hurting or abusing you or another member of your family.
www.woah.org.au
The Line
This is another website for both girls and guys and helps you work out what is ok in a relationship and what might be crossing ‘the line’
www.theline.org.au
Anxiety Disorders Association of Victoria
The Anxiety Disorders Association of Victoria offer support, information and resources to help people manage anxiety and depression issues
www.adavic.org.au
Reconnexion
Reconnexion works towards treating panic, anxiety, depression, and tranquiliser dependency
www.reconnexion.org.au
Eating Disorders Foundation of Victoria
Source of support, information, community education and advocacy for people with eating disorders and their families.
Helpline: 1300 550 236
www.eatingdisorders.org.au
National Association for Loss and Grief
Telephone information and referral service to support those who have experienced loss and are grieving.
Ph: (02) 6882 9222
www.nalag.org.au
Men’s Referral Service
Telephone counselling for men concerned about behaviour at home.
Available Monday to Friday: 8am to 9pm, Saturday & Sunday 9am-5pm
Freecall: 1300 766 491
www.mrs.org.au
Women’s Information and Referral Service (WIRE)
Free information, support and referrals to women across Victoria. Services available face to face, via telephone and online.
Available Monday to Friday, 9am – 5pm.
Freecall: 1300 134 130
www.wire.org.au
Carelink Centre
Carelink Centre offer support for young carers.
Freecall: 1800 052 222