Below is a list of helpful links that our staff, volunteers and participants have identified as being particularly useful resources. Please feel free to suggest sites of your own that you have found interesting or useful whilst surfing the internet.
Links especially relevant to psychiatric disabilities:
- CRS : www.crsaustralia.gov
- Prahan Mission : www.prahranmission.org
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Victorian Mental Illness Awareness Council: www.vmiac.com
- Mind (Victoria) : www.mindaustralia.org
- Mental Health Services: www.health.vic.gov.au/mentalhealth/index.htm
- The Mental Health Legal Centre: www.communitylaw.org.au/mentalhealth
- Victorian Mental Health Services : www.health.vic.gov
- VICSERV –Peak body for PDRSS in Victoria: www.vicserv.org.au
- Arafemi ( Association of relatives of emotionally and mentally ill): www.arafemi.org.au
- DHS: hnp.dhs.vic.gov.au/wps/portal
Links especially relevant to Culturally and Linguistically Diverse (CALD) Communities:
- Ethnic Communities' Council of Victoria: www.eccv.org
- Action on Disability within Ethnic Communities Inc.(ADEC) : www.adec.org
- Victorian Transcultural Psychiatry Unit (VTUP): www.vtpu.org
- Multicultural Mental Health Australia (Multilanguage brochures) :www.mmha.org
- VITS Language Link (An interpreting and translation service):www.vits.com
- Foundation House (Provides services to refugees): www.survivorsvic.org
- Victorian Refugee Health Centre:www.refugeehealthnetwork.org
- The Department of Human Services Language Services Policy: :www.dhs.vic.gov
- Victorian Multicultural Commission:www.multicultural.vic.gov
Quit Victoria is offering free multilingual kits in about 20 languages to health professionals to help their patients quit smoking .
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Links especially relevant to intellectual disabilities:
- National Disability Services - Peak body for intellectual disability: www.nds.org
- Department of Human Services: hnp.dhs.vic.gov.au/disability
- Scope Disability means possibility:www.scopevic.org
- Yooralla: www.yooralla.com
Links especially relevant to neurological disorders:
- Parkinson’s Victoria –www.parkinsonsvic.org
- MS Society - msaustralia.org.au
- Motor Neurone Disease Victoria – www.mnd.asn
- Australian Huntington’s Disease Association – www.ahda.com.au
