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The Australian Childhood Foundation Provide a range of specialist counselling services for children and young people affected by abuse and for their families.
Phone: 9874 3922
Email: info@childhood.org.au
Web Address: http://www.stopchildabuse.com.au
The Gatehouse Centre's multidisciplinary team includes highly skilled social workers, psychologists, a psychotherapist, paediatricians, forensic physicians and an administration team. These professionals work together to provide a range of assessment and treatment services for children when there are concerns of abuse.
Phone: (03) 9345 6391 Monday - Friday 9.00 am - 5.00 pm
After Hours Emergency: (03) 9345 5522
Web Address: http://www.rch.org.au/gatehouse/index.cfm?doc_id=1151
The National Child Protection Clearinghouse is an information, advisory and research unit focused on the prevention of child abuse and neglect and associated family violence. The National Child Protection Clearinghouse, which has operated from the Australian Institute of Family Studies since 1995, collects, produces and distributes information and resources, conducts research, and offers specialist advice on the latest developments in child abuse prevention, child protection and associated violence.
Phone: 03 9214 7888
Email: library@aifs.gov.au
Web Address: http://www.aifs.gov.au/nch/index.htm
The Child Protection Service is part of the Victorian Department of Human Services. Child Protection provides child-centred, family-focused services to protect children and young people from significant harm resulting from abuse or neglect within the family. It also aims to ensure that children and young people receive services to deal with the impact of abuse and neglect on their wellbeing and development.
Phone: 131278 (After Hours Crisis line)
Web Address: http://www.dhs.vic.gov.au
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Phone: 1800 126 637
Web Address: http://www.betterhealth.vic.gov.au/
Advice to parents from Maternal & Child Health nurses. 6 pm - midnight (Monday-Friday). 12pm - midnight (Saturday, Sunday and public holidays).
Phone: 13 22 29
Web Address: http://hnb.dhs.vic.gov.au
The Safety House Program is a community based network of safe places in a local area. Safety Houses can be a house, shop or a business and they can provide assistance to children should they feel unsafe, threatened or unsure, primarily when travelling to and from school. The Program also aims to play a preventative role in community safety, providing safer neighbourhoods for children.
Phone: 03 9593 3788
Email: safetyhouse@bigpond.com
Web Address: http://vic.safetyhouse.org.au
The Royal Children's Hospital is a specialist paediatric hospital and provides a full range of clinical services, tertiary care and health promotion and prevention programs for children and adolescents
Phone: 9345 5522
Web Address: http://www.rch.org.au
Supporting families throughout their experiences of caring for children with a life threatening illness from diagnosis through to recovery or bereavement.
Phone: 9804 6222
Email: mail@vsk.org.au
Web Address: http://www.vsk.org.au
Neighbourhood Watch is a community based crime prevention program which aims to improve the quality of life within a neighbourhood by minimising preventable crime and promoting closer community ties.
Phone: 03 9247 5311
Email: nhw@neighbourhoodwatch.com.au
Web Address: http://www.neighbourhoodwatch.com.au
CIVic is an association of member agencies that provides community information and support services to their local communities throughout Victoria. CIVic provides assistance to the membership in relation to community information, advocacy, policy and program development, research and consultation, information dissemination, development and support.
Phone: 9672 2000
Email: civic@civ.org.au
Web Address: http://www.civ.org.au
24 hour Crisis Service for adults, children and no offending family members.
Phone: 9594 2289
Email: secasa@southernhealth.org.au
Web Address: http://www.secasa.com.au
CASA House is committed to ensuring that the silence, which surrounds sexual assault, continues to be broken and that victim/survivors are provided with necessary support.
Phone: 9347 3066
Email: contact@casahouse.casa.org.au
Web Address: http://www.casahouse.casa.org.au
Through 330 police stations and other specialists units, Victoria Police provides "a safe, secure and orderly society by serving the community and the law" 24 hours a day, every day of the year.
Phone: 9247 5907
Web Address: http://melbourne.citysearch.com.au/E/V/MELBO/0061/25/57/1.html
We support children and their families suffering from the impact of family violence, providing them with a variety of services and education programs to make and keep them safe.
Phone: 9429 9266
Email: info@berrystreet.org.au
Web Address: http://www.berrystreet.org.au
DepressioNet is created by and for 'people like us' - people from a variety of backgrounds who live with depression.
Phone: 03 9639 1144
Email:help@depressionet.com.au
Web Address: http://www.depressionet.com.au
ICPA is an organisation of parents and individuals working together for access to education and quality educational services for students from less populated regions and striving to ensure that children’s educational needs and future aspirations are not disadvantaged simply because of the location of their family home.
Phone: 5020 6884
Email: FedPresident@icpa.com.au
Web Address: http://www.icpa.com.au
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