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Some other useful resources

This section is about finding different types of help and other resources available to young people living with an illness or disability and their families.

Organisation

 

Description

Arthritis Queensland                                   

 

Arthritis Queensland is a non-profit organisation, helping those living with the conditions of arthritis and osteoporosis.

     

Asthma Foundations Australia

 

Asthma Foundations Australia is an association of all the Asthma Foundations throughout Australia. Asthma Foundations Australia aims to eliminate asthma as a major cause of ill health and disruption within the community.

     
Asthma Foundation NSW
  Asthma Foundation NSW aims to enhance the lifestyle, health and wellbeing of people with asthma through information, education, advocacy, research and community programs.
     

Australian Spina Bifida & Hydrocephalus Association

 

 

 

 


 The Australian Spina Bifida & Hydrocephalus Association (ASBHA) is the peak body representing the interests of people with spina bifida, their families and carers with the goal of improving lives and communities.

     

Beyond Blue

 


beyondblue is a national, independent, not-for-profit organisation working to address issues associated with depression, anxiety and related substance misuse disorders in Australia.  See also Youthbeyondblue

     

The Butterfly Foundation

 

Supporting young Australians with Eating Disorders.

     

Camp Quality

 

Camp Quality is a non profit organisation that is committed to bringing hope and happiness to every child living with cancer, their families and communities through ongoing quality recreational, educational, hospital and financial support programs.

     

Canteen

 

 The Australian Organisation for Young People Living With Cancer.

     

CP Australia

 

 

 

 


Works towards creating a national focus on cerebral palsy to promote the interests, rights, roles and wellbeing of people with cerebral palsy and similar disorders.  

     

Cystic Fibrosis Australia

 


Cystic Fibrosis Australia assists member organisations to achieve common objectives by developing national education programs and collecting and distributing information about Cystic Fibrosis (CF) at national and international levels.

     

 
Dads Appreciating DisabilitieS  Australia

 

Dads Appreciating DisablitieS Australia is an organisation for men working together and building positive futures for people who have a disability or health issue.

     

Diabetes Australia

 

 

 

 


Diabetes Australia is the national peak body for diabetes in Australia providing a single, powerful, collective voice for people living with diabetes, their families and carers. See also MyD - a site specifically for 16 to 25 year olds.

     

Diabetes Couselling Online

 

Diabetes Counselling Online is a web based counselling service for people with diabetes and their families. They provide email counselling and support to people of all ages and with all types of diabetes, and have groups, chat sessions, resources and information.

     

Epilepsy Action Australia

 


Education and support services to children and adults with epilepsy or other seizure disorders across Australia.

     

Haemophilia Foundation Australia

 


HFA represents people with inherited bleeding disorders and their families.

     

Headspace

 


Australia's National Youth Mental Health Foundation. The headspace mission is to deliver improvements in the mental health, social wellbeing and economic participation of young Australians aged 12-25.

     

Health Insite

 


HealthInsite is an Australian Government initiative, funded by the Department of Health and Ageing. It aims to improve the health of Australians by providing easy access to quality information about human health.

     

 

HeartKids

 


HeartKids strive to offer support, encouragement and hope to families of children with Heart Disease, while raising awareness and vital funding into the causes of this chronic disease.

     
 
Itsallright
  Itsallright is a web initiative from  SANE Australia. It provides diaries of four teenagers, based on real stories, as they deal with the challenge of living with mental illness in their family.
     

Kidney Health Australia

 


The focus of Kidney Health Australia is to improve kidney health outcomes leading to substantial improvements to the quality of life for people with kidney and urinary tract diseases and their families and carers, whilst also developing initiatives that reduce the incidence of kidney disease in the Australian community.

     


Kids Help Line

1800 55 1800

 


Australia's only free, confidential and anonymous, telephone and online counselling service specifically for young people aged between 5 and 25.

     

Leukaemia Foundation

 


The Leukaemia Foundation is the only national not-for-profit organisation dedicated to the care and cure of patients and families living with leukaemias, lymphomas, myeloma and related blood disorders.

     


Lifeline
 
131 114

 


This network of trained volunteer telephone counsellors are ready to take calls 24-hour a day, any day of the week from anywhere in Australia.   

     
 
Muscular Dystrophy NSW
  Muscular Dystrophy Association of NSW (MDNSW) serves and supports people with neuromuscular disorders.
     

myD

 

MyDiabetes a site that has been developed specifically for people aged 16 to 25 years living with diabetes.

     

National Disability Services

 

 

 

 


National industry association for disability services, representing over 600 not-for-profit organisations. Collectively, our members operate several thousand services for Australians with all types of disability.

     

Reach Out

 


Information about lots of issues such as depression, drugs & alcohol, family issues, eating disorders, grief and loss, safe sex and pregnancy, school, work and lots more.

     

Redkite

 

 

 

 


By delivering specialised childhood cancer counselling and support, Redkite aims to alleviate the challenges young people and their families experience throughout the diagnosis and treatment of cancer and beyond.

     

Ronald McDonald House Charities 

 


Ronald McDonald House Charities (RMHC) is an independent, non-profit organisation, that seeks to help seriously ill children and their families lead happier, healthier lives.

     
 
SANE Australia
1800 18 SANE (7263)
  SANE works for a better life for people living with mental illness, their family and friends.
     

Smile Foundation

 

 

 

 


SMILE (Supporting Medical Innovation for Life Enhancement) Foundation is a charity which has been established by like-minded business people to generate a perpetual fund to support outstanding Australian medical research into rare childhood diseases and provide financial assistance to affected children and their families.

     

The Spastic Centre

 

 

 

 


For over 60 years The Spastic Centre has provided services for children and young people with cerebral palsy and other disabilities across New South Wales and the ACT.

     

Youthbeyondblue

 


Youthbeyondblue's all about getting the message out there that it's okay to talk about depression, and to encourage young people and their family and friends to get help when it's needed. 

 

 

 

 

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last updated: 4 February 2010

 




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