Resources
What is healthy ageing? – Visit site
- Mental Health First Aid – Alternatives to self-injury: View PDF
- Self-harm and teenagers: Visit site
- Urge surfing in alcohol and drug work: Visit site
- Video “Supporting a young person with self-harm”: View on YouTube
- Video “Self-Harm: Understanding Unhelpful Myths and Ways to Get Help”: View on YouTube
- Video: “Responding to Self-Harm” (recognising and responding to self-harm for staff working with young people): View on YouTube
- For printed medication information for mothers, simple versions can be printed from the QLD Health medications website: » Printable leaflets (choiceandmedication.org)
- The Pharmacy Department at the Royal Women’s Hospital in Melbourne can be an excellent resource. Their details are:
- Hours: 9am to 4pm Monday to Friday
- T: (03) 8345 3190
- E: drug.information@thewomens.org.au
- Related fact sheets on the Women’s website on medicines in pregnancy and breastfeeding.
- The Royal Women’s Hospital pregnancy and breastfeeding medicines guide
- Another useful website is “Best Use of Medicines in Pregnancy” BUMPS
- Australian Association of Infant Mental Health: https://www.aaimh.org.au/
- SMS for Dads: https://www.sms4dads.com.au/
- SMS for Deadly Dads: First Nations resource: https://www.sms4dads.com.au/deadly-dads/
- Pregnancy to Parenthood: https://www.p2pclinic.com.au/
Fact Sheets
- Encouraging disclosure of perinatal mental illness and distress
- Emerging Minds – My baby’s care plan
- A guide to help you choose between the medicines to help the symptoms of ADHD in pregnancy and breastfeeding
- Disability Maternity Care – Pregnancy Journey
Some additional websites for dads
- Butterfly Foundation National
- National Eating Disorders Collaboration – Right Care Right Place
- Eating Disorders QLD
- First Steps to Eating Disorder Support – Free training modules
- The Shared Table – Supportive Meal Therapy Training for Carers
- Lifeline – Visit site
- Beyond Blue – Visit site
- Red Cross Telecross – A phone call each day to check you’re OK – Visit site
- Friendline – for anyone who needs to reconnect or just wants a chat – Visit site
- 13 Yarn – 13 92 76
- NT Mental Health Line – 1800 682 288
- Suicide Call back service – 1300 659 467
- Lifeline – 13 11 14
- Beyond Blue – 1300 224 636
- Samaritans – 13 52 47
- NT TeamTalk – 1800 832 600 (7 days a week – weekdays 9 AM till 8 PM, and weekends 12 till 8 PM)
Eating Disorders
Kids & Teens
- Kids Helpline – 1800 551 800
Men
- MensLine Australia – 1300 789 978
Defense community
- Defence Force all-hours support line – 1800 628 036
Non-English speakers
- Translating and Interpreting Service – 13 14 50 and ask to speak to Lifeline
Suicide Bereavement
- Standby Support After Suicide – 1300 727 247 (6am – 10 pm, 7 days a week)
LGBTIQ+
- Q Life – 1800 184 527
- LGBTIQ+ Health Australia
Art and Mental Health
- Dulwich Centre – The Tree of Life
- Diana Coholic – Holistic Arts-Based Program (HAPS)
- SANE Forums – mental health support forums – Visit site
Parenting
- Triple P
- Raising children network
- Brave online – education– anxiety – with child
4 measures for well-being:
- Sleep
- Outdoor activity
- Screens
- Healthy food
Assessment tools discussed
- ADHD – SNAP-IV, Vanderbilt
- ASD – SRS
Parent support
FASD
For practitioners and specifically first nations learning
ASD
- ASD support organisations do offer online therapy support to remote children in Central Australia, such as Autism SA offering speech and OT support via tele link services
- Autism connect – lots of resources
- (Townsville) Life Without Barriers – Visit site
- (Mackay) Senior Friendship Group – Visit site
- (Mackay) Older Women’s Network – Visit site
- (Western Australia) Equine Assisted Learning for Aboriginal children and young people – Visit site