Useful Links
Resources to help you through a Mental Health Crisis
How to help those at risk of suicide
- Lifeline – Support toolkit: Suicide
- 13YARN – Fact sheet: Worried about someone
- headspace – Self help: Understanding and dealing with thoughts of suicide
Carers
- Lifeline – I’m worried about someone
- Carer Gateway – Support for Carers
Mental Health
- Lifeline – Support toolkit: Anxiety
- Lifeline – Support toolkit: Depression
- 13YARN – Fact sheet: Anxiety in mob
- 13YARN – Fact sheet: Depression in mob
- headspace – Self help: What is anxiety and the effects on mental health
- headspace – Self help: What is depression
- Beyond Blue – Fact sheet: Anxiety
- Beyond Blue – Fact sheet: Depression
- Rural Adversity Mental Health Program (RAMHP) – Self help: Support for rural men
Youth
- headspace – headspace.org.au
- headspace – Self-help toolkit: I’m a young person
- Beyond Blue – Fact sheet: Anxiety and depression in young people
- Kids Helpline – kidshelpline.com.au
- Create your Future – createyourfuture.org.au
Self-harm
- Lifeline – Support toolkit: Self-harm
- headspace – Self help: What you need to know about self-harm
- Beyond Blue – Fact sheet: Self-harm guide for parents
Support after Suicide
- Lifeline – Survivors of suicide brochure
- StandBy Support after Suicide – Postvention Support Service
- Thirrili Indigenous Postvention Support Service – Postvention Response Service
- Switchboard – LGBTIQA+ Support After Suicide bereavement groups
- Feel the Magic – for Grieving families and children
- SSPAN – Resource – Supporting children and adolescents bereaved by suicide
Grief
- Griefline – Grief and loss resources
- National Association for Loss and Grief – Fact sheets and Resources
- Lifeline – Support toolkit: Grief and Loss
- 13YARN – Fact sheet: Grief, loss and sorry business
- headspace – Self help: Dealing with grief and loss
- Beyond Blue – Fact sheet: Grief and loss
Relationships
- Lifeline – Support toolkit: Relationships
- headspace – Self help: Building healthy romantic relationships
Financial stress
- Lifeline – Support toolkit: Financial stress
- 13YARN – Fact sheet: Financial stress
- headspace – Self help: Financial support
Gambling help
- Lifeline – Support toolkit: Problem gambling
- Gambling – NSW Gambling Help
Alcohol and other drugs
Domestic and family violence
- Lifeline – Support toolkit: Domestic and family violence
- 13YARN – Fact sheet: Domestic and family violence
- headspace – Self help: Violence in relationships
Loneliness
- Lifeline – Support toolkit: Loneliness
- 13YARN – Fact sheet: Loneliness
Homelessness
Natural Disaster (bushfires, floods, cyclones, drought and other traumatic ‘natural’ events)
- Lifeline – Support toolkit: Natural disasters
- Beyond Blue – Fact sheet: Emotional responses after a disaster
- Red Cross – Returning home after a bushfire
- Children’s Health Queensland – Birdie Books
- Australian Psychological Society – Helpful fact sheets
- Legal Aid – Help for victims of natural disasters
Other:
- General – E Mental Health Prac
- Veterans and Families Counselling – Open Arms
- Legal – Legal Aid NSW
- Sexual Health – Like it is
- Menstruation and Mental Health – YouTube