Family & Carers

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We offer different types of support, depending on what you and your teenager need and want. Choose an option below that's right for you.

NSW Parentline 
1300 1300 52

Contact NSW Parentline 1300 1300 52 for free telephone counselling and support.

Lifeline Direct Counselling Service

Lifeline offers free face to face counselling at their Newcastle and Central Coast offices. Lifeline’s Comprehensive suicide prevention service has helped thousands of local people with its three pronged approach to suicide prevention.

Carers NSW

Carers NSW works with all carers regardless of their age, location, life-stage or circumstances. This includes those caring for individuals with support needs relating to ageing, disability, health and mental illness.

Young Carers NSW

The Carers NSW Young Carer Program was developed to make a positive difference to the lives of young carers and their families

Carer Gateway

Phone counselling, an online carer forum, and self-guided coaching and skills courses to give you support, skills and information.

Parents Beyond Breakup

Parents Beyond Breakup is a charity that supports parents and grandparents experiencing trauma related to family breakdown and separation. Separation from their former partner and from their children; a factor closely linked to suicide in Australia. Every child deserves the best start in life and that is why we work so hard to keep separated parents alive and in their children’s lives.

eMental Health Resources

eMental Health Resources are an online, mostly free CBT (cognitive behaviour therapy) based therapy modules that can be completed at home on a mobile phone, tablet device or computer. eMental health resources are evidence based, with most reporting that 97% of users found the online modules useful and would recommend them to a friend or relative to use.

MyCompass

Mindspot Clinic

eCouch

This Way Up

Mood Gym 

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