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 | Community Information and Services/Disabilities/Psychiatric Disabilities| Information and support services for persons with psychiatric disabilities |
 Anxiety Treatment Australia [YOU WILL NOW LEAVE THE community.gov.au WEBSITE] | | Description | Anxiety Treatment Australia provides information about anxiety disorders, the treatment options, psychologists around Australia who treat anxiety disorders, group therapy & workshops, support groups, articles, resources and links to other sites. | | Author | Community Organisation - Anxiety Treatment Australia |
| Disability Support Fund, Victoria [YOU WILL NOW LEAVE THE community.gov.au WEBSITE] | | Description | The Disability Support Fund (DSF) has been established to assist people in the Barwon region with a mental illness access community based health, social, recreational and vocational options which would not otherwise be possible. The DSF is the only one of its kind in Victoria. Information is provided for individuals and consumer groups and for service providers and carers. | | Author | Community Organisation - Barwon DisAbility Resource Council |
| Kaiyu, NSW [YOU WILL NOW LEAVE THE community.gov.au WEBSITE] | | Description | Kaiyu Enterprises Inc. commits its resources to developing opportunities and support within the Lower Hunter (Newcastle, Lake Macquarie and surrounding areas) to assist people with a mental illness/psychiatric disability to have satisfying and valued lives as full members of the community. | | Author | Community Organisation - Kaiyu Enterprises Inc. |
| Living Options, Melbourne [YOU WILL NOW LEAVE THE community.gov.au WEBSITE] | | Description | Living Options is a centralised information, intake and referral service providing supported housing options to people with mental illness living in Melbourne's Northern suburbs within the municipalities of Banyule, Darebin, Nillumbik and Whittlesea. | | Author | Community Organisation - Living Options |
| Loddon Mallee Community Support, Victoria [YOU WILL NOW LEAVE THE community.gov.au WEBSITE] | | Description | Programs that the Community Support Division manage are:
- Supported Accommodation Assistance Program (SAAP) in Bendigo & Kyabram;
- Psychiatric Disability Support Program (PDSS) that provides housing and support to people with mental illness in Bendigo;
- Independent Living Skills Training to people who have a disability and may be at risk of homelessness or in housing crisis;
- Intensive Home based Support Program works with people with complex needs to maintain their independence in their home;
- Housing Support for the Aged Program which assists elderly formerly homeless people to maintain their public housing accommodation and maximise their independence; and
- The Community Connections Program aims to increase access to mainstream and specialist services for people with unmet complex needs who are homeless, at housing risk or living in low-cost accommodation. | | Author | Community Organisation - Loddon Mallee Housing Services |
| Neami, Victoria [YOU WILL NOW LEAVE THE community.gov.au WEBSITE] | | Description | Neami is a community managed organisation that provides psychosocial rehabilitation, education, support and advocacy for people living with a psychiatric disability living in the North East of Metropolitan Melbourne in the Municipalities of Banyule, Darebin, Nillumbik and Whittlesea. | | Author | Community Organisation - Neami |
| Prahran Mission, Victoria [YOU WILL NOW LEAVE THE community.gov.au WEBSITE] | | Description | Prahran Mission is a community service agency of The Uniting Church in Australia, operating primarily within the City of Stonnington, an inner city suburb of Melbourne. It assists the empowerment of, and advocates alongside, the psychiatrically disabled, the aged, children, youth, the homeless, migrants, sole parents and other economially and socially disadvantaged individuals and groups. | | Author | Community Organisation - Prahran Mission |
| Progressive Employment Personnel Inc., NSW | | Description | Progressive Employment Personnel (P.E.P.) assists those with a psychiatric disability to access a range of services enabling them to obtain and retain open employment with ongoing support as required. The service covers Northern Sydney and the Central Coast. | | Author | Community Organisation - Progressive Employment Personnel Inc. |
| Shyness & Social Anxiety Treatment Australia [YOU WILL NOW LEAVE THE community.gov.au WEBSITE] | | Description | Shyness & Social Anxiety Treatment Australia provides information about: social anxiety, the treatment options, psychologists around Australia who treat social anxiety, group therapy & workshops, support groups, articles, resources and links to other sites.
This sites aims to assist people who fear:
public speaking, appearing anxious (e.g. blushing, & sweating), dating, meeting new people, eating and drinking in public, exams, performing (be it acting, singing, sports or playing an instrument), dealing with authority figures, writing in public, using public toilets. | | Author | Community Organisation - Infoxchange |
| St Vincent De Paul Society [YOU WILL NOW LEAVE THE community.gov.au WEBSITE] | | Description | The St Vincent de Paul Society works to assist people in need and combat social injustice across Australia. These services include: aged care, migrant and refugee services, home visitation, homeless person's services, clothing and assistance centres, care for people with psychiatric disabilities, vocational services for people with a disability, drug, alcohol and gambling counselling, financial counselling, disaster recovery and street vans. | | Author | Community Organisation - St Vincent De Paul Society in Australia |
| The Mental Illness Fellowship of South Australia Inc. [YOU WILL NOW LEAVE THE community.gov.au WEBSITE] | | Description | The Mental Illness Fellowship of South Australia Inc., which until July 2002 was known as the Schizophrenia Fellowship of South Australia, is an organisation committed to helping people with schizophrenia, their relatives and carers. It aims to enable people with schizophrenia and other mental illnesses, and their carers, to share fully in the community with the same rights and opportunities as other citizens. |
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