Resources to help you through
a Mental Health Crisis

📞If you need to talk to someone right now, call Lifeline on 13 11 14.

📞 If you or someone you know is in danger, call Emergency Services on 000.

How to help those at risk of suicide

• Lifeline – Helping someone at risk of suicide toolkit

• 13YARN – Worried about someone factsheet

• Youth Beyond Blue – Suicide prevention – knowing the signs

• Beyond Blue – Supporting someone in the workplace at risk of suicide

• headspace – If your friend is not ok

• Rural men – You Got This Mate website

Carers

• Carer Gateway – Support for Carers

• Lifeline – Carers of people with mental illness

Mental Health

• Resource – One Door

Youth

• headspace – headspace.org.au

• Create your Future – createyourfuture.org.au

• Kids Helpline – kidshelpline.com.au

• Australian Medical Association Child & Youth – ama.com.au

Self harm

• Lifeline – Self harm fact sheet

• Beyond Blue – Self harm and self injury

• headspace – Self harm fact sheet

Support after Suicide

• StandBy Support after Suicide – Free books to support children and teens after suicide

• Thirrili Indigenous Postvention Support Service – Postvention Response Service

• Switchboard – LGBTIQA+ Support After Suicide bereavement groups

• Feel the Magic – Let’s Talk Suicide day camp for kids 

• Suicide Prevention Collaborative – Support after Suicide

• SSPAN – Resource – Supporting children and adolescents bereaved by suicide

• Lifeline – Survivors of suicide brochure

Grief

• Grief Link  http://www.grieflink.asn.au/coping-with-grief.asp

• Beyond Blue – Grief and loss fact sheet

• Lifeline – Grief and loss fact sheet

• headspace – Grief fact sheet

Homelessness

• Resource – Help with homelessness in the Shoalhaven and Illawarra

• Lifeline – Accommodation and homelessness fact sheet

Chronic Health

• Lifeline – Living with a chronic health condition

General 

• General – E Mental Health Prac

• Veterans and Families Counselling – Open Arms

• Legal – Legal Aid NSW

• Gambling – NSW Gambling Help

• Sexual Health – Like it is

• Menstruation and Mental Health – YouTube

Natural Disaster (bushfires, floods, cyclones, drought and other traumatic ‘natural’ events)

• Lifeline – Coping with community crisis

• Lifeline – Coping with loss and change in a community after a natural disaster

• Lifeline – Helping children cope after a natural disaster

• Beyond Blue – Emotional responses after a disaster

• Beyond Blue – Looking after yourself and your family after a natural 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