NSW
Health - Family Help Kit- NSW Health -
Parenting
www.health.nsw.gov.au/living/parent.html
- MensLine
Family problems? Lonely, angry or
out of control? Want more from your
relationships? Conflict with workmates? Want
to be a better father? Overwhelmed, hopeless,
suicidal? Men's relationships matter -Talk it
over, anywhere, anytime
24 hours - 7 days - 1300 78 99 78
- DoCS Helpline
To report child abuse and
neglect.
24 hours, 7 days per week 132 111
- Kids Help Line
Telephone counselling.
24 hours, 7 days per week 1800 55
1800
- Lifeline
Telephone counselling.
24 hours, 7 days per week 13 11 14
- Alcohol and Drug
Information Service (ADIS)
Information & referral service. 24
hours, 7 days per week 1800 422 599
- Domestic
Violence Line Telephone
counselling and referral.
24 hours, 7 days per week. 1800 65 64 63
The NSW Department
of Community Services (DoCS) promotes
the safety and wellbeing of children and young
people and works to build stronger families and
communities. We provide child protection
services, parenting support and early
intervention, foster care, adoption services and
help for communities affected by disaster.
www.community.nsw.gov.au
NSW Centre for
Parenting & Research (DoCS initiative)
Caring for children and young people is
one of life's most rewarding experiences. But
it's not always straight-forward. On this site,
you'll find practical tips, information and
resources to help make parenting a little
easier. www.parenting.nsw.gov.au
Parenting Services
Directory
www.parenting.nsw.gov.au/public/s17_getting_help
includes emergency numbers:
The Family
Assistance Office has been set up by
the Australian Government to give Australian
families better access to government services.
Instead of going to different agencies to get
family assistance, families are able to get all
their payments from just one place - the Family
Assistance Office. Family Assistance Offices
have been set up in Medicare offices, Centrelink
Customer Service Centres and Tax Office
Shopfronts across the country, offering a range
of payments to support families with their work
and family responsibilities. www.familyassist.gov.au
Relationships
Australia is an organisation that
offers resources to couples, individuals and
families to help enhance and support
relationships. www.relationships.com.au
The Donor
Conception Support Group of Australia Inc.
is a self funding organisation run by
volunteers and has been in existence since 1993.
Starting with a membership of 20, we have now
grown to approximately 600 adults and 300
children with members in USA, Canada, Hong Kong,
NZ, Sweden, UK, Germany & Indonesia.
The membership is made up of people
considering or using donor sperm, egg or embryo,
those who already have children conceived on
donor programmes, adult donor offspring and
donors. We also have social workers , doctors
and clinic staff as members of the support
group. www.dcsg.org.au
The Fertility
Society of Australia is the peak body
representing scientists, doctors, researchers,
nurses, consumer groups, patients and
counsellors in reproductive medicine in
Australia and New Zealand.
The FSA is at the forefront of global
developments in the treatment of infertility.
Each year it presents an Annual Scientific
Meeting attracting experts in reproductive
health from around the world to review research
and discuss new technologies and treatments. It
also plays an important role in supporting and
advocating for couples striving for parenthood.
www.fsa.au.com/about/
The Reproductive
Technology
Council
(Western Australia) was established
by the Human Reproductive Technology Act
1991. It helps promote the safe and
beneficial treatment of those who need to resort
to reproductive technology in order to have a
child, and ensures that they have adequate
counselling and objective information to guide
their decision-making. It also ensures that the
wider community is kept informed and involved,
as the policies relating to the regulation of
these technologies continue to evolve. www.rtc.org.au
The Australian
Infertility Support
Group
was established to support our
feelings of infertility enabling us to share our
knowledge, resources, and support with others.
It includes people who are experiencing primary
or secondary infertility and perhaps some who
are thinking about adoption or child-free
living. It also includes couples who have had
years of infertility experience and may offer
insight and understanding to others, some just
beginning their journey, and others who have had
success with treatment who may share their hope
to other couples. www.nor.com.au/community/aisg
The Stepfamily
Zone is
an Australian website providing information and
support to stepfamilies. www.stepfamily.asn.au
Welcome to Families
Like Mine, a web site dedicated to
decreasing isolation for people who have parents
who are lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender
(LGBT), and bringing voice to the experiences of
these families. www.familieslikemine.com
Parents With
Pride is a support, networking, and
resources forum for Australian and NZ parents,
partners, and prospective parents who identify
as being GLBT (gay, lesbian, bisexual, and
trans*), and their families. Providing free
resources and local group listings ... bringing
families together. www.au.geocities.com/pwpaus
