Useful Links

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Useful Links

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:

Department of Health: www.health.gov.au
CRS : www.crsaustralia.gov.au
Prahan Mission : www.prahranmission.org.au
Victorian Mental Illness Awareness Council: www.vmiac.org.au
Mind (Victoria) : www.mindaustralia.org.au
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.au
VICSERV – Peak body for PDRSS in Victoria: www.vicserv.org.au
Arafemi (Association of relatives of emotionally and mentally illness): www.arafemi.org.au
DHS: www.dhs.vic.gov.au
If a family member is using drugs or alcohol, and may also have a mental health problem. Sibling support can provide you with support, and give you a few ideas on how to get through this. http://www.siblingsupport.com.au/

Links especially relevant to Culturally and Linguistically Diverse (CALD) Communities:

Ethnic Communities' Council of Victoria: www.eccv.org.au
Action on Disability within Ethnic Communities Inc.(ADEC): www.adec.org.au
Victorian Transcultural Psychiatry Unit (VTUP): www.vtpu.org.au
Multicultural Mental Health Australia (Multilanguage brochures): www.mmha.org.au
VITS Language Link (An interpreting and translation service): www.vits.com
Foundation House (Provides services to refugees): www.foundationhouse.org.au
Victorian Refugee Health Centre: www.refugeehealthnetwork.org.au
The Department of Human Services Language Services Policy: www.dhs.vic.gov.au
Victorian Multicultural Commission: www.multicultural.vic.gov.au
Quit Victoria is offering free multilingual kits in about 20 languages to health professionals to help their patients quit smoking: http://www.quit.org.au/multicultural
Greek Care: http://www.greekcare.org.au/community-directory

Links especially relevant to intellectual disabilities:

National Disability Services - Peak body for intellectual disability: www.nds.org.au
Department of Human Services: www.dhs.vic.gov.au//for-individuals/disability
Scope Disability means possibility: www.scopevic.org.au
Yooralla: www.yooralla.com.au

Links especially relevant to neurological disorders:

Parkinson’s Victoria: www.parkinsonsvic.org.au
MS Society: msaustralia.org.au
Motor Neurone Disease Victoria: www.mnd.asn.au
Australian Huntington’s Disease Association: www.ahda.com.au

Links for Employees only:

Kaizen Synergy (Gemba): www.kaiznsynergy.com