Helplines, Websites, and Podcasts
This is not an exhaustive list, but for immediate, crisis, and/or self-help recommendations, please see my recommendations below:
Crisis Support
LIFELINE 13 11 28
13 YARN - crisis line for mob, staffed by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people
DV Connect / 1800 RESPECT
(1800 737 732)
Online and Phone Resources
Support for Young People
Kids Helpline (all under 25):
1 800 55 1800
ReachOut Australia (aimed at teens)
Headspace (12 - 25 years old)
1800 650 890
Children of Parents with a Mental Illness
Support for Parents
Parentline
1300 30 1300
PANDA (perinatal & postnatal depression)
1300 726 306
Raising Children website
https://raisingchildren.net.au/
Rainbow Families
https://www.rainbowfamilies.com.au/
Support for Mental Health
Beyond Blue
1300 22 4636
https://www.beyondblue.org.au/
The Butterfly Foundation (eating disorders)
https://butterfly.org.au/get-support/helpline/
SANE Australia (18 and over)
https://www.sane.org/get-support
Self-Help / Parenting Programs
The BRAVE Program (anxiety)
https://brave4you.psy.uq.edu.au/
MoodGYM
Bite Back (13 - 16 years)
Triple P Parenting
https://www.triplep-parenting.net.au/qld-en/free-parenting-courses/triple-p-online-under-12/
1,2,3 Magic
Often run at community centres. Great for managing behavioural difficulties.
Circle of Security
Attachment based parenting program - often run at community centres.
Community Resources
Community centres offer a wealth of resources, including parenting programs, youth programs over the school holidays, low-cost fitness classes and groups, and sometimes child health nurses, libraries and/or aquatic centres.
Organisations such as Mission Australia, The Smith Family foundation, St Vincent de Paul, Anglicare, The Benevolent Society and ACT for Kids can provide counselling, parenting support, and/or often support with homelessness or financial distress.
PoDCAsTS
Parental As Anything - Maggie Dent
All In The Mind - ABC Listen
Unruffled - Janet Lansbury
Good Inside with Dr Becky
No Wellness Wankery - Lyndi Cohen
The Glenn Mackintosh Show
Acknowledgment of Country
I acknowledge and pay my respects to the Traditional Owners and ongoing custodians of the land on which I live, work and play, the Bullogin people of the Yugambeh language speaking region. I honor the Elders past, present, and emerging, and recognize their enduring connection to Country. I commit to respecting the traditions and cultures that have shaped this land for thousands of years.
I recognise that sovereignty was never ceded. Always was, always will be Aboriginal land.