Online Resources (Links)

Bereavement Support

Grieflink
GriefLink is a South Australian website providing information and resources for people affected by death-related grief.

Minimisation of Suicide Harm
Raising awareness of suicide prevention and bereavement support.

StandBy Response Service
StandBy is a national suicide bereavement response service that provides a 24 hour coordinated community crisis response to families, friends and associates who have been bereaved through suicide. Click on the link to find which service is closest to you or phone 0458 406 640.

Carer Support

ARAFEMI
ARAFEMI (Victoria) provides services to the community for the care and support of families and individuals dealing with an emotional or mental illness. The site provides access to ARAFEMI's library catalogue and online support via ARAFEMI's Carers' Message Board and Carers' Chat Room.

ARAFMI NSW
ARAFMI NSW provides support and advocacy for families and friends of people with a mental illness or disorder. The Carer's Support section provides links to a wealth of information for carers including information on mental illness and caring other carer's experiences and a Carers Forum.

ARAFMI Tasmania
ARAFMI Tasmania aims to improve the quality of life for families carers and friends of those living with mental illness. The site contains links to a newsletter support booklet library catalogue along with information on carer education programs and support groups.

ARAFMI WA
ARAFMI Western Australia is a support service for families and friends of people with a mental illness or disorder. The site contains information on self-care and help for carers. The Youth Services section contains information written specifically for young carers.

Carers Australia
Carers Australia aims to improve the lives of carers. The website for the Carers Australia branch in each state and territory can also be accessed via the homepage. The site has a For Carers and an About Carers section. The For Carers section provides information on supporting your loved one finding services looking after yourself taking a break and carer support. This section has links to the video stories of other carers. There are a number of online forums that carers can access.

Mental Health Carers NT (formerly ARAFMI NT)
Mental Health Carers NT (formerly NT ARAFMI) is a support service for families and friends of people with a mental illness or disorder. The site contains information about the Wellways Carer Education program and a list of carer support in the NT.

Mental Health First Aid
The Mental Health First Aid course is designed to help people recognise the initial signs of a mental health problem or crisis. Participants are taught 'first aid' strategies in order to provide initial support for someone with a mental health problem.

Ministerial Council for Suicide Prevention - Carers Pack
An comprehensive information and support pack created by the Ministerial Council for Suicide Prevention for those concerned about someone who is distressed or suicidal.

National Network of Adult and Adolescent Children with a Mentally Ill Parent (NNAAMI)
NNAAMI is a peer support organisation for adult and adolescent children of a parent with a mental illness. The organisation provides support through advocacy mutual help and discussion groups. The site has a Community section with links to an online forum poetry section and bulletin board to post personal stories on.

Young Carers Australia
The Young Carers website gives young carers the opportunity to access information share caring ideas and stories talk to other young carers keep up to date on current news and events and access some online respite. There is also an online forum for young carers. The site also has sections for families teachers and other professionals.

Indigenous Services

Vibe Australia
The Vibe Australia website covers a range of different issues for Indigenous Australians. The Vibe Health section has a nationwide list of Aboriginal Medical Services.

Mental Health

beyondblue: the national depression initiative
beyondblue produce and refer people to accurate up-to-date easy to read information on depression anxiety and related disorders. A wide variety of factsheets and booklets can be ordered online or downloaded from this website. The 'Find A Doctor or Other Mental Health Professional' database allows people to search for mental health professionals in their local community.

Black Dog Institute
BlackDog provides information about mood disorders such as depression and bipolar disorder. This information is written for a range of audiences including people living with a mood disorder and their carers health professionals and researchers. It includes information about how to get help self-assessment tools and factsheets research and a media centre. Search engine and site map equipped.

BlueBoard
Online support group for people affected by depression, bipolar disorder and anxiety disorders. It aims to destigmatise mental disorders, and to provide support, hope and opportunities for sufferers and carers to share successful coping strategies. The group is run as a moderated bulletin board with strict protocols to enhance safety.

depressionServices
depressionServices.org.au is a service portal that offers a diverse range of interactive human services, including free counselling and peer support, utilising online technologies for Australians living with depression to help improve their mental health and wellbeing.

HealthInsite
HealthInsite is the Australian Government's health information site for consumers and service providers. It includes information about health services health professionals and an interactive create your own profile tool. The site has a search engine.

Lifeline
Lifeline provides 24 hour telephone counselling for a range of issues. The Lifeline Information Service webpage provides access to a variety of self-help tool kits with information about issues such as mental illness depression suicide prevention and more. The Self-help Toolkits are available for download from here.

Mental Health Association (Queensland) Inc.
Queensland's statewide non-government organisation promoting awareness of mental health and advocating for the welfare of people with mental illness. The site contains information about services available in the state an online library catalogue and a series of online mental health information sheets.

Mental Health Association of New South Wales Inc.
The Mental Health Association of NSW provides information and education advice about mental health mutual support and advocacy services. The website has a range of downloadable factsheets about mental disorders and their symptoms treatments and support services.

Mental Health Council of Tasmania
The Mental Health Council of Tasmania provides a public voice for people affected by mental illness and the organisations in the community sector that work with them.?The website has a list of Links to community organisations and community projects in Tasmania.

Mental Health Foundation (ACT)
The Mental Health Foundation ACT is an Australian non-governmental agency offering services for mental health consumers in the Canberra region. The site has on online library catalogue and provides information on counselling and therapy treatments. There is also information on local support groups and a directory of services for the ACT. Search engine equipped.

Mental Health Foundation of Australia (Victoria)
A Victorian organisation for people living with mental illness family members carers professionals and service providers. The website has a publications page and a list of factsheets on negative emotions anxiety and depression.

Mental Health Research Institute of Victoria
The Mental Health Research Institute conducts research focused upon improving the diagnosis treatment and prevention of major mental disorders. There are a range of factsheets that can be downloaded from the website.

Mental Health Wiki
Mental Health Wiki is a guide to mental health problems. It aims to provide high quality and up-to-date information by allowing contributors to edit and improve each other’s material. Contributors to Mental Health Wiki include health professionals, academic researchers, consumer or carers advocates and health service administrators. Mental Health Wiki is run by a team of researchers at the University of Melbourne in Australia.

Mental Illness Fellowship of South Australia
The Mental Illness Fellowship of South Australia provides information and services for all South Australians living with mental illness or mood disorder. This website contains a series of downloadable factsheets for people living with a mental illness their family and friends.

Mental Illness Fellowship of the Australia (MIFA)
MIFA is the Australia's largest national community organisation for people affected by mental illness. This site provides information on the carer education program Wellways and access to a series of fact-sheets including 'How The Mental Health System Works'. The 'Find Your State MIFA Member' link provides details of the MIFA branch for each state and territory.

Multicultural Mental Health Australia
A national program in mental health and suicide prevention for Australians from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds. This program provides translated brochures for carers and consumers which are accessible via the library and information services section.

Sane Australia
SANE Australia provides information about mental illness suicide prevention and where to get help. It includes factsheets online bookshop media releases and a helpline (online and telephone). The site includes research advocacy and awareness campaigns.

The Shack
The Shack provides information resources message boards and support to all involved with Borderline Personality Disorder [BPD). The site has a section for people diagnosed with BPD and a section for carers.

Top End Association for Mental Health
TEAM Health is a government-funded organisation that provides services to people living with a mental illness and their carers. The site describes the organisation's services and provides links to services in the Darwin region mental health information and youth mental health information. The organisation also provides a series of downloadable information kits for community workers.

Victorian Mental Illness Awareness Council (VMIAC)
The VMIAC is a Victorian not-for-profit organisation whose purpose is to provide support advocacy and referrals to people with experience of emotional or mental distress. The site contains information on research conducted by VMIAC an online newsletter a list of publications produced by the organisation and an online forum.

Western Australian Association for Mental Health
The Western Australian Association for Mental Health is the state's peak representative body for mental health agencies. The site provides a list of downloadable publications and a links page that provides information on services available in the WA community.

White Wreath Association
An Australian voluntary organisation that advocates changes to the mental health system and also raises funds to build care centres. The site provides an overview of White Wreath's goals and services. It also contains personal stories of people bereaved by suicide.

Professionals

ASPIRE
The ASPiRE database provides access to suicide prevention information and resources.

CounsellingOnline
CounsellingOnline is a service where you can communicate with a professional counsellor about an alcohol or drug related concern, using text-interaction.

Rural Services

beyondblue Rural Assistance Information Network (RAIN)
The beyondblue Rural Assistance Information Network (RAIN) Map shows the drought specific resources available to country people in Exceptional Circumstances areas across Australia.

Self-help

ACT Mindfully
ACT Mindfully provides information on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) and Mindfulness in addition to information on workshops conducted by Dr Russ Harris. The Resources page provides access to a number of useful links.

Anxiety Online
Anxiety Online is a comprehensive online mental health service offering information, assessment and treatment programs ("eTherapy") for the anxiety disorders:

Generalised Anxiety Disorder
Social Anxiety Disorder
Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
Panic Disorder with or without Agoraphobia

Back From The Brink
First hand experience of overcoming depression. Graeme Cowan describes a series of strategies that he and others have used to overcome depression. The site also contains links to research a book for carers videos and podcasts and an online community forum.

Beacon
Beacon provides consumers and professionals with information about e-health online applications for mental health and physical health disorders. Websites throughout the world are reviewed and ranked by a panel of health experts. Consumers can also submit rankings and comments.

Centre for Adolescent Health
BoysTown helps disadvantaged children and young people aged to 25 years connect with the community. We provide help and reassurance to those experiencing life challenges that include: physical and emotional abuse, alcohol and drug abuse, homelessness, low literacy, long-term unemployment and mental illness.

Coping.org: Tools for Coping with Life's Stressors
A self-help website described as 'Tools for Coping with Life's Stressors.' A series of articles written about coping strategies for a range of different issues.

CRUfAD - Clinical Research Unit for Anxiety and Depression
Anxiety and Depression are among the commonest mental disorders. There are effective treatments for all these disorders, but less than a quarter of sufferers get proven treatments. The Clinical Research Unit for Anxiety and Depression (CRUfAD) is a joint facility of the University of New South Wales and St Vincents Hospital in Sydney Australia. It combines clinical and research expertise in the recognition and treatment of the anxiety and depressive disorders.

e-couch
e-hub's latest interactive self-help program includes modules for social anxiety, generalised anxiety and depression. It provides self-help training drawn from cognitive, behavioural and interpersonal therapies as well as relaxation and exercise.

Healthshare
A free service, Healthshare features over 500 health communities that you can join so you can access medical information, connect with others who know what you’re going through, share your health experiences and offer support.

Living Well Feeling Well
The Living Well Feeling Well program is an internet program that is a convenient and motivating way to learn skills to improve your mental and physical wellbeing and to cope with challenging situations. The program is offered free-of-charge to adults 18 years or older with access to the internet. It is part of a research study being conducted by Swinburne University's eTherapy Unit. Participation in the research study involves approximately 4 hours spread over a 3-month period to complete a number of internet-based surveys and the 3-week interactive program.

MoodGYM
Moodgym is a web-based therapy program that aims to reduce symptoms of depression using cognitive behavioural therapy techniques.

OnTrack
OnTrack aims to support the Australian community to achieve mental and physical health and wellbeing. This is achieved in several unique ways: Quizzes, Information; Referral and Programs that aim to provide people with the informations and skills that will enable them to manage their own problems, helping them to keep their lives "On Track".

Suicide Call Back Service
The Suicide Call Back Service website provides information and resources for people at risk of suicide, their carers and those bereaved by the suicide of a loved one. It includes video interviews, a support forum for carers, and a directory of community resources.

Suicideline Victoria
Suicideline Victoria provides telephone counselling crisis intervention and referrals for people who feel suicidal their carers and those bereaved by suicide. The site contains information written specifically for each group affected by suicide and links to community resources.

Service finders

Australian Psychological Society - Find A Psychologist
Find an APS-accredited psychologist in your area using this online database tool.

Infoxchange Service Seeker
Database of Australian community and government services. People can search for a range of services in their local community.

Lifeline Service Finder
The Lifeline Service finder is a very extensive database of community services in Australia.

Suicide bereavement

ARBOR
ARBOR is an outreach service which provides support especially for people bereaved by suicide. If you have lost a loved one by suicide ARBOR can walk alongside you through this difficult time and provide additional support if needed. Counsellors and Peer Supporters are on hand to provide this support.

Hope For Life
Hope For Life is a suicide prevention service focusing on those bereaved by suicide. The site contains links to online training programs in suicide prevention and suicide bereavement support in addition to a range of helpful downloadable resources for those bereaved by suicide.

Living beyond suicide
Living Beyond Suicide provides support in the days and hours after a suicide in South Australia. Phone 1300 76 11 93 (call costs 27.5 cents) between 10am–10pm any day.

Ministerial Council for Suicide Bereavement - Supporting Children After Suicide pack
A support and information pack for parents and other caregivers supporting children bereaved by suicide.

Ministerial Council for Suicide Prevention - Bereavement Pack
A support and information pack for people bereaved by suicide. To download a pdf of your state's version of the Bereavement Pack click on the link below.

Support After Suicide (Jesuit Social Services)
A Victorian based website with sitemap that provides a range of downloadable fact sheets related to grief and suicide bereavement. This website also has links to other people's stories of loss.

Survivors of Suicide
The Survivors Of Suicide is an American web site that aims to help those who have lost a loved one to suicide resolve their grief and pain in their own personal way. The site provides information for those bereaved by suicide and those supporting another bereaved by suicide. Suicide survivors may also participate in an online forum - a fee applies.

Suicide prevention

American Association of Suicidology
The American Association of Suicidology site has a range of downloadable resources organised into the following categories: How can you help; Thinking About Suicide; Suicide Loss Survivors and Suicide Attempt Survivors.

ASPIRE
The ASPiRE database provides access to suicide prevention information and resources.

Australian Institute for Suicide Research and Prevention (Griffith University)
A Griffith University program promoting conducting and supporting research activities for the prevention of suicidal behaviours.

Hope For Life - QPR Suicide Prevention Training Program
"Hope for Life delivers the QPR Suicide Prevention training program online. People trained in QPR learn how to recognise the warning signs of a suicide crisis and how to question persuade and refer someone to help.

Living Is For Everyone (LIFE)
The Living Is For Everyone (LIFE) website is a world-class suicide and self-harm prevention resource. Dedicated to providing the best available evidence and resources to guide activities aimed at reducing the rate at which people take their lives in Australia the LIFE website is designed for people across the community who are involved in suicide and self-harm prevention activities.

Living Works - Australia
This is a Lifeline national service. LivingWorks conducts a series of training programs in suicide prevention and intervention such as the Applied Suicide Intervention Skills Training (ASIST) course. The programs are offered in local communities.

Living Works Education (Canadian site)
LivingWorks' Canadian website.

Suicide Awareness Voices of Education
SAVE is an organisation based in the USA that aims to prevent suicide through public awareness and education. The site contains a wealth of information and resources about suicide prevention and suicide bereavement. Site map and search engine equipped.

Suicide Prevention Australia
Suicide Prevention Australia is a non-profit non-government organisation working as a public health advocate in suicide prevention. Whilst not a crisis intervention service this site contains a 'Getting Help' section that provides links to nationwide numbers.

Youth

Australian Child & Adolescent Trauma, Loss & Grief Network
Links parents, members of the community and professionals to share experiences and resources on the care of children and youth experiencing the impact of trauma, loss and grief.

BetweenTheLines.net.au
BetweenTheLines.net.au is a community for young people aged 18-25 that enables them to make informed decsisions to reduce problematic drug and alcohol use. BetweenTheLines.net.au is an evidence-based service developed in conjuction with young people and professionals that empowers young people to make informed choices about their drug-taking behaviour. The service primarily focuses on Amphetamine Type Substances (ATS) and also alcohol and cannabis.

Headspace - Australia's National Youth Mental Health Association
The Headspace site provides youth going through difficult times with useful information on mental health where to get help in their local community and what to expect when they go for help. The site also has stories from other young people a Carers page and a 'Knowledge Centre' that contains a list of downloadable factsheets about a range of mental-health related issues including suicide and self harm.

Kids Helpline
The Kids Helpline site is geared towards young people between the ages of 5 and 25 years. Young people can access web-based counselling or email counselling via this site. The Kids Helpline site also provides a searchable service database and number of downloadable factsheets covering a range of issues easily accessible via the sitemap.

Office of Adolescent Health
Online resources for topics including mental health, substance abuse, reproductive health and healthy relationships.

RD4U
RD4U means the 'road for you'. This site was designed by young people in the UK for young people. The main aim of the site is to let young people find their own 'road' to dealing with the death of someone close to them. The site contains a message board and suggestions on coping.

Reach Out!
Reach Out! is a service that helps young people get through tough times. It provides information and support on a range of issues including depression and other mental health issues. The site has links to personal stories factsheets a search engine and a number of online forums.

StopBullying
Provides information from various government agencies on how kids, teens, young adults, parents, educators and others in the community can prevent or stop bullying.

WhatWorks4U
Helping to improve mental health treatment for young people.

Youth Focus
Youth Focus is a unique independent not for profit organisation that supports vulnerable young people in Western Australia by offering a range of mental health services. They operate with a team of highly trained and skilled psychologists, social workers and occupational therapists to provide a range of early intervention and prevention services free of charge, aimed at supporting young people and their families to overcome the issues associated with suicide, depression and self harm.