Links

Links to Our Local Community Links to Information on Mental Illness Links to Other Mental Health Organisations Links to Mental Health Consumer Issues Links to Other Clubhouses Links to other Relevant Organisations Links to Dealing with Stress

Links to Our Local Community

• Information Hunter (includes Local Government) (http://www.ncc.nsw.gov.au/nccinfohunt/)
• Hunter New England Area Health Service (http://www.hnehealth.nsw.gov.au/)
• Indigenous people (http://www.aboriginalhunter.com/)
• Migrant Resource Centre (http://www.mrcnh.org/)
• Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer people (http://www.rainbowvisions.org.au)

Links to Information on Mental Illness

• Mental Health Information Centre
• Multicultural Mental Health Australia
• Internet mental health (encyclopaedia on mental illness)
• Descriptions of various mental illnesses (Continuing Medical Education website)
• Reachout (site for young people)
• Beyond Blue (National Depression Initative)
• depressioNet
• Bipolar Disorder: Helping lives move forward (For people with Bipolar disorder, their friends and families. Includes information about healthy living, relapse prevention and recovery)

Links to Other Mental Health Organisations

• Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing (Mental Health and Wellbeing)
• Flinders University (Information on Mental health promotion, suicide prevention and early intervention)
• ARAFMI (Association of Relatives And Friends of the Mentally Ill) New South Wales
• Mental Health Association of NSW
• Mental Health Co-ordinating Council
• Mental Health Council of Australia
• NEAMI
• New Horizons Enterprises Ltd
• PRA (Psychiatric Rehabilitation Association)
• Richmond Fellowship
• SANE Australia
• Schizophrenia Fellowship of NSW

Links to Mental Health Consumer Issues

• Australian Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission
• Australian Mental Health Consumer Network
• Disability Advocacy Service Hunter (DASH)
• Lunatics Liberation Front (a Canadian site with interesting info and links)
• Mental Health Advocacy Service
• MindBodyLive
• MindFreedom
• The MoodGYM Training Program (Delivering cognitive behaviour therapy for preventing depression)
• National Empowerment Center (USA site)
• National Mental Health Consumers' Self-help Clearinghouse (USA site)
• NSW CAG (Consumer Advisory Group - Mental Health Inc.)

Links to Other Clubhouses

• Bromham Place, Richmond, VIC
• Clubhouse SA Inc , Woodville Park, Adelaide, SA
• Eureka Clubhouse, Moonah, TAS
• Fountain House, New York, U.S.A.
• International Centre for Clubhouse Development
• Lorikeet Clubhouse, Shenton Park, WA
• Pioneer Clubhouse (Ostara Australia) Gladesville, NSW
• Stepping Stone Clubhouse, Coorparoo, Brisbane, QLD

Links to other Relevant Organisations

• Australian Drug Foundation
• Baptist Community Services
• Castle Personnel
• Centrelink
• Community Builders NSW
• CRS Australia (Vocational Rehabilitation Service)
• Commonwealth Department of Family and Community Services
• Department of Employment and Workplace Relations
• Hunter Volunteer Centre
• Life Activities
• Life Without Barriers
• NSW Department of Ageing, Disability and Home Care
• Personal Support Programme

Links to Dealing with Stess

• Dealing with School and Exam Stress