Information, referral and counselling are provided to individuals and families where language or cultural issues make it difficult to access mainstream services. An individual may refer themselves or someone else (e.g. priest, doctor, service provider, family member or friend) can refer on their behalf, provided they have been given consent.

The issues for which information, referral and counselling is sought are varied and often complex because they compounded by cultural factors, the migration experience and history of the person. Counselling is provided to individuals, couples and families when they have identified an issue which is impacting negatively on their life or something they which to change and require support to deal with it more effectively.

Gidget Foundation Australia’s Start Talking program provides free specialist perinatal telehealth counselling services for expectant and new parents nationwide. Services are provided by Gidget Clinicians, delivered via a video call service, similar to FaceTime or Skype.

Start Talking offers the same quality of care available through Gidget Foundation Australia’s face-to-face services at Gidget House, affording quality treatment for those with limited access. Support is also provided to people who have experienced a pregnancy or childbirth-related loss, such as stillbirth, miscarriage or termination within the last 12 months. Partners are also able to access our specialised services.

The PTSD Online program provides information about PTSD and helps individuals to understand why it develops. PTSD Online also introduces the skills and strategies that can help to identify the symptoms of PTSD, learn relaxation techniques including progressive muscle relaxation, gain control of physical reactions, learn how to change any unhelpful thoughts and beliefs maintaining PTSD and plan to maintain mental health gains after the course.

STARTTS’ counsellors work together with clients from a refugee or refugee like backgrounds, or seeking asylum, to help them develop ways to better manage their reactions to new situations, address and resolve problems, and work through thoughts and feelings. Counselling helps clients cope more effectively and regain control over their lives. STARTTS provides counselling face-to-face and via telehealth. Services are free and confidential.

Led by Amy from RewireMe, you will connect to a group of welcoming peers to learn skills and techniques from Cognitive-Behavioural Therapy (CBT) to help you recognise and respond to low mood and anxiety in more constructive ways. It is a 6 week online program focused on on: understanding mood, anxiety and your mental health; thinking skills to tame your inner critic; thinking skills to improve your mood; actions you can take to ensure your environment works for you; helpful ways to communicate when you’re feeling down or anxious; and applying these practical skills to your everyday life.

PSS Project 54 is a pilot project aimed to reduce barriers to accessing psychological support for the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples by providing an outreach service that is delivered through a culturally appropriate and sensitive model of care. It is a variant of the general PSS program (described above) which also services the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders. This pilot project focuses on the La Perouse, Redfern, Sutherland shire, and Glebe region and works with specific referral points (listed below).

This service is for people who identify as Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islanders who are experiencing mental health concerns. Through this service, people can access individual face-to-face psychological therapy with an experienced mental health professional.

We offer short term care 24-72 hours to consumers who requires urgent mental health care and crisis intervention. Our multidisciplinary team will assist the consumer, their family and carers during their stay in the Psychiatric Emergency Care Centre.

We provide comprehensive assessments and care over a short stay of one to three days. A wide range of specialities and health care professional will collaborate with the consumer, their family and carers, and other services to define a care pathway for optimal transition from hospital to the community. This comprehensive care plan will ensure effective after-care, relapse prevention, and avoid lengthy admission.

Comprehensive Assessment Service for Psychosis and At Risk (CASPAR) is a service provided by SESLHD that provides in-reach into three local headspace centers (located at Bondi Junction, Hurstville, and Miranda) to deliver early identification, care coordination, assertive outreach, and targeted interventions to support the ‘missing middle’ youth population. Largely these are young people who have mental health and recovery needs greater than what can be met by headspace alone but do not require the level of care provided by state-based public mental health services.

The Pink Elephants Peer Support Programme is a community of women who have all gone through the heartbreaking experiences of losing our much-loved babies, and they want you to know that they truly understand, you are not alone, and you did nothing wrong.

They give you time, support, empathy, and a safe space for everything you are feeling, thinking, and questioning – which are all real, valid, and normal. Grief can come across in many different ways for many diverse people but they are here to support you through each and every way.

It is a place where people who are impacted by anxiety can give and receive support related to living with and managing their anxiety.

Provides telehealth counselling and personalised therapy with an accredited mental health professional from the comfort of your own home or office.

The Telehealth Psychiatry Service provides free consultations with psychiatrists to people who are living with severe and complex mental illness in the Central and Eastern Sydney region, who due to socio-economic barriers and other social determinants would not otherwise be able to access a private psychiatrist. Working in collaboration with GPs and other mental health and psychosocial support providers, the key aspects of this initiative are to provide telehealth psychiatry services and to engage with GPs supporting people accessing the service to facilitate capacity building and support ongoing patient treatment plans.

Consultations will be offered to consumers via secure video conferencing either from their own or a support person’s home, or from their service provider or GP’s office. To use the video conferencing platform, it is necessary to have access to a device that has a camera, speaker, microphone and stable and secure internet connection.

Referrals can be made:

• Directly by GPs supporting people in primary care.
• By staff supporting people currently accessing Primary Integrated Care Supports (PICS), Connect and Thrive and the Continuity of Support (CoS) program. These referrals will need to be accompanied by a referral letter from the consumer’s GP.

The Made-4-Me Program is designed to help manage one or more mental health issues or a range of symptoms at a time. The Made-4-Me Program offers online modules that can help understand the symptoms individuals may have been experiencing across a range of mental health concerns. It will teach strategies to improve wellbeing and mental health. The content aims to provide useful information and to introduce skills that can help manage symptoms and alleviate distress.

Lou’s Place provide Empowering services including Crisis intervention, referrals, innovative trauma-informed programs, free legal advice, supporting clients with court appearances or medical appointments and case management. Lou’s Place also offer a range of Heling activities and programs such as Art, sewing, music, yoga, creative writing, jewellery-making, and health workshops.

Project Youth run lots of FREE programs to help young people to be safe, happy, healthy, and able to make informed decisions. These programs aim to intervene early to reduce and stop escalation of issues and concerns you may have. Project Youth’s Adolescent Family Counsellor (AFC) provides family therapy to young people and their families.

The primary role of this counselling is to explore with families:

• the issues that are creating conflict and tension within the family
• Introduce new information to enable family members to make the changes they need to prevent the risk of homelessness of young people.

ICLA’s Bondi Prevention and Recovery Centre (PARC) supports mental health recovery in a home-like environment. Bondi PARC supports early intervention and promotes recovery to help people avoid hospital admissions (step up), as well as providing residential support services following discharge from hospital (step down).

Canteen’s three-day PEER program provides young people with an opportunity to connect, be supported and to support others through their experiences of cancer.

A closed group environment for individuals seeking group support after the loss of a loved one. The purpose of this group is to support the health and wellbeing of participants who have lost a loved one by creating a safe space for participants to connect with people, share personal experiences and learn ways to cope and cultivate self-compassion to move through their grief and find hope after loss.

Comfort and support from those who can empathise. Support groups are facilitated by a qualified Griefline counsellor by integrating psychoeducation, evidence-based interventions and the personal experiences of the group to normalise grief, navigate emotional distress, reduce isolation and foster resilience.
The group program draws upon the emotional benefits of peer support, in conjunction with evidence-backed information to help reduce the stigma that can be associated with grief, and building an understanding that each person experiences grief in a different way.

Youthblock provides free, safe and confidential support, counselling and health services for young people aged 12-24.

They can offer support, information and someone to talk to about: Your relationships, family problems, School, sex, mental and physical health, accommodation and money, drugs and alcohol, and more.

Women Partners offers support with individual counselling and support groups to all women upon learning their partner has been sexually engaging with men. Women Partners offer a safe space for women to share their stories and perspectives whilst managing unexpected changes in their relationship.
The Women Partners program provides services including face to face, telephone and online Counselling, safe and non-judgemental support groups and workshops, as well as a range of information and resources.

myCompass has been developed by Black Dog Institute to help people better self-manage mild-to-moderate symptoms of depression, anxiety and stress. The program is freely available on any Internet-enabled device, including computers, tablets (e.g. iPads) and mobile phones.
myCompass delivers evidence-based psychological techniques via a range of online interactive activities recommended to the user based on their profile.Alternatively, they can select learning activities that most interest them. myCompass also allows users to track their thoughts, feelings and behaviours and provides graphical feedback to help them recognise unhelpful patterns and possible triggers.

SWCC Counselling Program provides prevention, early intervention, therapeutic treatment, and support for the maintenance of long-term recovery for clients with complex co-occurring mental health, addiction, and trauma presentations through short, medium, and long-term counseling.

Community Mental Health Services are distinct from inpatient mental health services, and play a vital role in supporting people between 18 to 65 years old in the community with a severe mental illness and psychiatric disability throughout the recovery process.

Community Mental Health Services support people with psychiatric disability to manage their self-care, improve social and relationship skills and achieve broader quality of life via physical health, social connectedness, housing, education and employment.

We provide a variety of interventions and therapies for older persons who are experiencing acute symptoms of their mental health disorder and requires care within an inpatient setting. A person admitted to the unit can either be voluntary or involuntary under the NSW Mental Health Act (2007). Consumer care is provided by a multidisciplinary team which includes, psychiatrists, registrars, nurses, social worker, psychologist, occupational therapist, and peer worker.

A mental health clinician authorised by a consultant psychiatrist will conduct an assessment to determine whether an admission is the best option.

Open Arms Recovery for trauma program offers help to understand and manage the impact of trauma on Current and ex-serving ADF members and their families. The program can help to identify and reduce heightened physical responses to trauma, manage avoidance behaviours and develop a strategy to safely confront fearful situations, learn how to modify unhelpful thinking, develop skills to improve relationships and meet healthy lifestyle goals.

BITE BACK is Black Dog Institute’s FREE, self-guided online wellbeing and resilience program for young people aged 13 – 16 years old. Evidence shows that using BITE BACK can decrease symptoms of depression and anxiety and increase wellbeing. A combination of fun, interactive activities, quizzes, animations and information across nine positive psychology domains including gratitude, optimism, flow, meaning, hope, mindfulness, character strengths, healthy lifestyles, and positive relationships.

The Panic STOP! Program provides information about panic disorder, with or without agoraphobia, and introduces skills and strategies that can help to identify the symptoms of panic disorder, self-monitor specific panic symptoms and mood, gain control of physical reactions, learn how to cope with, and reduce panic attacks, learn relaxation techniques and make lifestyle changes to improve wellbeing.

Centre 360´s Group programs support young people, parents and carers.
Mentoring: Centre 360 Youth and Family Service believes strongly in the power of a positive mentoring relationship and the tremendous impact it can have on a young person’s life. Every year, we team up with Herbet Smith Freehills to provide a scholarship and mentoring program to young people who are engaged with our service. This program runs annually and supports young people to identify their strengths in reaching their educational and work goals.
Parenting support: We know that in order to have the best outcomes for our young people we need to support their parents and families too. As part of our commitment to holistic service provision we provide the Tuning into Teens (TinT) program which offers parents and carers therapeutic support, skills and confidence to better manage family issues. These programs run throughout the year and places are limited so if you are keen, click below to register your interest.

The Statewide Statewide Intellectual Disability Mental Health Outreach Service (SIDMHOS) is a specialist mental health service that supports the needs of people with a diagnosed mental health problem and cooccuring intellectual disability, currently receiving care, who need increased specialised support. Support is individualised, ranging from advice and problem solving local pathways through to collaborative case reviews and care planning with the treating team.

Triple P recognises that every family is different, which is why Family Transitions Triple P Online can be personalised to suit different circumstances. The free online program supports parents and carers to:
• create a stable, reassuring environment for children
• reduce adverse effects and help them feel supported, reassured and secure
• help children and themselves to manage emotions and develop good coping skills
• handle challenging moments more calmly and confidently
• build effective communication and problem-solving skills to reduce conflict and co-parent more effectively
• adapt and evolve in their new family dynamic.

SWOP offers free and confidential short-term counselling to anyone working in the sex industry.

The Mental Health/Alcohol and Other Drugs Worker provides psychosocial and holistic case management to individuals with mental health issues. She will often focus on encouraging individuals to maintain self care and general health and well being, to empower individuals to make steps towards independence and integration into the community. She also focuses on co-morbid drug and alcohol and mental health issues.

The Adult Mental Health team is a multidisciplinary team that provides assessment and recovery orientated time limited care for people living in the community who are assessed as needing care coordination. The team will work in partnership with other community services including your GP, and can provide support and education for families and carers. The Adult Mental Health Team can help with your employment and education goals, physical health and everyday activities important to community living.

Community based team that specialised in helping young people who are experiencing changes that could be called psychosis.

The St George Mental Health Service is part of the SESLHD Mental Health Service. The SESLHD Mental Health Service is a publicly funded specialised clinical service, serving a local population of over 930,000 residents in the eastern and south eastern suburbs of the Sydney metropolitan area. Our services are geographically networked in the north (Eastern Suburbs Mental Health Service) and the south (St George and Sutherland Mental Health Service) and provided within both hospital and community settings.

St George Mental Health Service offers the following services:

• Acute Adult Inpatient Mental Health Service
• Acute Care Team (ACT)
• Adult Community Mental Health Service
• Child and Adolescent and Youth Mental Health Service (CAYMHS)
• Co-location Employment Program
• Older Persons Community Mental Health Service
• Older Persons Inpatient Mental Health Service
• Psychiatric Emergency Care Centre (PECC)
• Youth Mental Health & Early Psychosis Program

headspace is Australia’s National Youth Mental Health Foundation, providing early intervention mental health services to 12-25 year olds.
We support young people with mental health, physical health (including sexual health), alcohol and other drug services, as well as work and study support. With a focus on early intervention, we work with young people to provide support at a crucial time in their lives – to help get them back on track and strengthen their ability to manage their mental health in the future.
In everything we do, we aim to meet the evolving and unique needs of young people and those who support them.

The Adult Mental Health team is a multidisciplinary team that provides assessment and recovery orientated time limited care for people living in the community who are assessed as needing care coordination. The team will work in partnership with other community services including your GP, and can provide support and education for families and carers. The Adult Mental Health Team can help with your employment and education goals, physical health and everyday activities important to community living.

Community based team that specialised in helping young people who are experiencing changes that could be called psychosis.

The Eastern Suburbs Mental Health Service is part of the SESLHD Mental Health Service. The SESLHD Mental Health Service is a publicly funded specialised clinical service, serving a local population of over 930,000 residents in the eastern and south eastern suburbs of the Sydney metropolitan area. Their services are geographically networked in the north (Eastern Suburbs Mental Health Service) and the south (St George and Sutherland Mental Health Service) and provided within both hospital and community settings.

Eastern Suburbs Mental Health Service offers the following services:

• Acute Care Team (ACT)
• Adult Acute Mental Health Inpatient Service
• Adult Community Mental Health Service
• Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service (CAMHS)
• Early Psychosis Programme
• headspace
• Mental Health Inpatient Rehabilitation Service
• Mental Health Intensive Care Unit
• Mental Health Rehabilitation Community Service
• Older Persons’ Mental Health Service
• Perinatal & Infant Mental Health Service (PIMHS)
• Psychiatric Emergency Care Centre (PECC)

Bears of Hope facilitates a national program of healing workshops on managing grief and discovering coping strategies to create a foundation for the future. These focus on both individuals and couples and they offer a supportive environment to bond with other bereaved parents.

Baptist Care´s Counselling & Family Services are still operating, providing appointments via phone, Zoom or Skype. Please call their team for an appointment: 1300 130 225
They are clinically-trained counsellors that stand by their clients through times of family separation, divorce, adolescence, depression and anxiety, problem gambling, parenting, grief, domestic and family violence, sexual abuse and suicide. They connect with our clients at their most vulnerable, and hear some of their deepest and hardest truths.
Counselling can be the first step in coping better, thinking more clearly and feeling supported, despite the challenges life throws our way.

The aim of the Gender Centre’s Seniors Support Service is to offer support to clients who are over the age of 55. Support includes frontline crisis and case management, linking clients with other specialised aged care services that are working with transgender and gender diverse people and enable clients to feel safe and secure in accessing these services, provide psycho-social support and opportunities for engagement, enhance the quality of life in relation to independence and self-determination, to promote the needs of transgender and gender-questioning people to aged care service providers, and to provide skills development and training to other aged care service providers, especially generalist services so they can deliver good practice models of service delivery to this unique and diverse community.

Psychology Video Telehealth For Children, Teenagers & Adults. Connect with an online Psychologist for free from anywhere in Australia.

The Adult Mental Health team is a multidisciplinary team that provides assessment and recovery orientated time limited care for people living in the community who are assessed as needing care coordination. The team will work in partnership with other community services including your GP, and can provide support and education for families and carers. The Adult Mental Health Team can help with your employment and education goals, physical health and everyday activities important to community living.

headspace is Australia’s National Youth Mental Health Foundation, providing early intervention mental health services to 12-25 year olds.
We support young people with mental health, physical health (including sexual health), alcohol and other drug services, as well as work and study support. With a focus on early intervention, we work with young people to provide support at a crucial time in their lives – to help get them back on track and strengthen their ability to manage their mental health in the future.
In everything we do, we aim to meet the evolving and unique needs of young people and those who support them.

The St Vincent’s Hospital Sydney Gambling Treatment Program is a government funded service1. Our service provides FREE, confidential and highly effective treatment for people who are concerned about, or affected by, problem gambling.
Our expert team offer individually tailored treatment sessions based on Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) – the gold standard in the treatment of problem gambling. We can also assist problem gamblers with a range of other issues that commonly co-occur with problem gambling (e.g., anxiety and depression).
Our service is proudly staffed by qualified and experienced Clinical Psychologists. We are a highly skilled team and are constantly undergoing further training, attending conferences and conducting research to ensure we remain at the forefront of the treatment of problem gambling.

Information, referral and counselling are provided to individuals and families where language or cultural issues make it difficult to access mainstream services. An individual may refer themselves or someone else (e.g. priest, doctor, service provider, family member or friend) can refer on their behalf, provided they have been given consent.

The issues for which information, referral and counselling is sought are varied and often complex because they compounded by cultural factors, the migration experience and history of the person. Counselling is provided to individuals, couples and families when they have identified an issue which is impacting negatively on their life or something they which to change and require support to deal with it more effectively.

It is a free online and internet-based treatment course designed to help people manage the impacts of neurological conditions on their mental health and day-to-day activities. It was developed because many people with neurological conditions experience significant difficulties with both their emotional wellbeing (e.g., stress, anxiety, low mood) and cognitive wellbeing (e.g., planning, memory, attention). But, many people have limited access to help for managing these difficulties.

The Wellbeing Neuro Course is designed to provide good information and teach practical skills for managing the impact of neurological conditions. However, different to other courses, it is carefully designed for people experiencing cognitive difficulties as a result of having a neurological condition – that is, difficulties with attention, memory, planning, etc.

The UNSW Psychology Clinic provides a broad range of clinical psychology services to adults, young people, children and families at low cost. It has an emphasis on cognitive-behavioural approaches to the understanding and management of psychological issues, which are based on the most up-to-date clinical research and evidence.

If you’re looking for some extra support, YourCoachPlus, PCCS’s mental health coaching service might be a great option for you. It’s a free and confidential program that can help you develop the skills you need to manage everyday stresses. Using a guided, self-help approach, this program is designed to help you break negative thought patterns and feel more in control based on low intensity CBT principles.

The best part? Accessing the program is easy and there’s little to no wait time. You need to be aged 16+ and living, working, or studying within the Central and Eastern Sydney region. If you are already currently seeing a mental health professional, you cannot use this program. However, all Australian residents can contact the national Head to Health mental health service (Ph 1800 595 212) and they will be able to refer you to the best service to meet your needs.

The 1800 011 511 Mental Health Line is NSW Health’s 24/7 statewide phone service which links people with NSW Health mental health services. It is a free service. It is staffed by trained mental health professionals who: offer mental health advice, complete a brief assessment, make, recommendations for appropriate care, including referral to NSW Health mental health services. The mental health professional will ask you questions to understand your needs and recommend appropriate services.

AMAN PsychSupport Clinic is a free culturally and religiously sensitive community-based psychology service. PsychSupport is the first of its kind within the community and is available free of charge without the need for a referral from your GP or a Medicare card.

The clinic offers English, Arabic, and Bengali-speaking psychologists who are available for consultation if you are experiencing any of the following symptoms:

Low mood or depression
Excessive worry, anxiety, stress, or panic
Obsessions or compulsions
Trauma
Anger
Grief and loss
Other concerns such as parenting, work-related issues, difficulties with sleep, relationship issues, issues relating to the study, loneliness, feeling isolated from the community

Are you feeling low, stressed or anxious? MindSpot Teletherapy is here to help. With this personalised service, you can speak directly with a qualified MindSpot therapist who are registered psychologists, accredited social workers, registered nurses, registered occupational therapists, or counsellors.

Our therapists are warm, engaging and passionate about supporting people to better cope with their symptoms and improve their overall wellbeing. They use proven therapies such as Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), Motivational Interviewing (MI) and Mindfulness-Based Therapy (MBT) to help you reach your therapy goals. Speak to your own MindSpot Therapist for personalised therapy at a time that suits you.

The OCD STOP! program combines Cognitive behaviour therapy (CBT) with exposure and response prevention therapy (ERPT) which is considered the most effective treatment for OCD. It provides information about OCD and introduces skills and strategies that can help to improve understanding of OCD, learn practical techniques to manage anxiety in OCD, discover ways to manage intrusive thoughts, be guided through exposure and how to manage responses.

Centre 350 works in schools delivering our group programs as well as individual counselling.
STRIVE Group Program: Anxiety, depression, academic stress, low self-esteem and family breakdown can overwhelm. STRIVE was developed in response to schools reporting an increase in mental health issues affecting students. The STRIVE program is a preventative program. It works with school teachers and student welfare staff to identify students who are at-risk of experiencing mental-health issues and who may be at-risk of disengaging from education. The program is facilitated with identified students in school. It works to give students the coping strategies and emotional regulation skills they need to overcome obstacles.
Peer Support Groups: provides a therapeutic space for students to discuss issues they are struggling with, share ideas on how to work through these issues and build social connections. Students will be taught emotional regulation and coping skills as well as psycho-education around mental health, relationships, and healthy lifestyle.
School Based Individual Counselling: provides students with a creative, flexible, holistic therapeutic space to ensure that students can access the mental health support they need. Our counselling in schools is trauma-informed providing support for a range of experiences such as trauma and loss, abuse and neglect, family struggles, mental health struggles, substance dependencies, school issues, homelessness, and anxiety.

The program dedicated to supporting the unique needs of children from serving and ex-serving ADF families has been made possible by the Australian Government.
The Department of Veterans’ Affairs is funding the Australian Kookaburra Kids Foundation to deliver the Defence Kids Program across Australia, which provides camps, activity days and age-appropriate mental health education focusing on coping skills and resilience, while allowing children to bond with peers who are facing similar challenges.

Hopefield offers professional, evidence-based clinical services including psychological and counselling services, family counselling, psychometric testing, group programs and community education. Specialist services are available through the clinical team to support children, youth and adults as well as families and couples.

headspace is Australia’s National Youth Mental Health Foundation, providing early intervention mental health services to 12-25 year olds.
We support young people with mental health, physical health (including sexual health), alcohol and other drug services, as well as work and study support. With a focus on early intervention, we work with young people to provide support at a crucial time in their lives – to help get them back on track and strengthen their ability to manage their mental health in the future.
In everything we do, we aim to meet the evolving and unique needs of young people and those who support them.

The Therapist Assisted Program provides 12 weeks of therapist support via weekly emails and up to 4 live sessions via video or instant chat to help tailor the mental health online program material to an individual’s specific situation, answer questions and offer additional support.

To provide accessible, life-long tools to support healthy minds.

PEIPOD is a multidisciplinary service dedicated to working with young people and their families aged 16 to 25 years old who may be experiencing their first episode of psychosis or complex mood disorder. PEIPOD provides an early intervention service and promotes the best possible care for young people in the St Vincent’s Hospital catchment area, with emerging mental health problems.

‘5 Ways to Wellbeing’ introduces you to five simple and effective ways to improve your psychological and emotional health that are based on extensive international research. The website gives you practical tools and resources so you can discover how to make the 5 Ways part of your ways to wellbeing.

The most recent and extensive research evidence suggests there are 5 main ways all individuals can play an active role towards improving and maintaining a sense of wellbeing:

Connect- Be Active – Keep Learning- Be Aware- Help Others

CESPHN provides priority access to the PSS Suicide Prevention Service (SPS) initiative for individuals who are considered at increased risk following a suicide attempt, self-harm, or who have heightened suicidal ideation and who are best supported in the primary health care setting. The primary objective of the Mental Health Practitioner (MHP) will be to treat and support individuals at increased risk of suicide or self-harm at a critical point in their lives.

PSS SPS is not designed to support people who are acute and immediate risk of suicide or self-harm. Individuals at acute risk should be referred immediately to the relevant state or territory government acute mental health team (or equivalent).

Baby Steps aims to enhance the well-being of new mums and dads and support them in their transition to parenthood.

Baby Steps provides online resources for dads as well as mums, adjusting to life with your new baby is exciting, but also challenging.
Baby Steps was written for parents having their first baby, but can be used by anyone with a young baby who wants to learn more about caring for their baby or themselves.

The Older Persons Mental Health Service provides time limited care for older people who may require specialist mental health support, in collaboration with their GP. This includes people with severe behavioural problems associated with dementia. Usually this service is for people over 65 years of age. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people may come to the service at a younger age.

This bereavement support program is designed to support those who have recently suffered loss through miscarriage. These facilitated sessions are mindfully designed to support individuals on their own journey. Each session covers a different aspect of the early pregnancy loss experience and incorporates information, skills building and mindfulness. Pink Elephants provide resources, information and peer-support for anyone impacted by early pregnancy loss. Using evidence, empathy and connection, their unique digital-first approach offers a single source of specialist support, whenever and wherever it’s needed — for anyone who has directly experienced it, for family and friends, corporate partners or healthcare professionals seeking proven ways to help.

• 17 effective strategies – the world’s first proven-to-work online parenting program
• You choose what works for you – adapt to suit your family, your values
• Be confident about handling each new age, stage and situation (and support your child now and in the years to come)
• Do it on your phone, computer, or tablet
• Videos and fun interactive learning
• Understand what’s within your control to change and influence for your child’s benefit
• Create the best environment for your child’s development
• Know how to address child behaviours
• Promote new skills and help emotional self-regulation
• Improve your relationship with your children
• Enjoy family life more!

Sydney Queer Muslims is a non-profit organisation dedicated to providing social support, education and resources to individuals and families in NSW. The organisation is made up from a diverse range of volunteers, all united by the same faith.We aspire to support and advocate for people of diverse sexualities , genders and intersex status to reconcile their sexual identity with their faith.