Support for families and friends suffering from the effects of living with someone who has drinking and/or drug problems.
Phone: 03 9642 3331
Help line: 1300 ALANON or 1300 252 666
Help line after hours: 03 5852 1476 or 03 5482 3194
Web: www.al-anon.org/australia
Drug and Alcohol Counseling (Direct Line): 1800 888 236
Web: www.lifeline.org.au
Group meetings for family members with loved ones with addiction issues including troubled teenagers with drug, alcohol, or behavioural problems.
Phone: 0435 758 095
Family self-help support groups for families and friends of compulsive drug users.
Phone: 02 9418 8728
Web: www.naranon.com.au
Information and support about depression and anxiety.
Phone: 1300 224 636
Web: www.beyondblue.org.au
Crisis support. Suicide prevention
Phone: 13 11 14
Suicide prevention, counselling, support and crisis intervention.
Phone: 1300 651 251
Web: www.suicideline.org.au
Crisis Assessment and treatment teams (CAT) – assist people who are in crisis with mental problems, including people who are close to suicide.
Phone: 1300 558 862
Web: www.health.vic.gov.au/mentalhealth
Phone: 1800 806 292
Web: www.casa.org.au
Phone: 1800 806 292
Web: www.sacl.com.au
Crisis telephone support for women experience violence
Phone: 03 9322 3555 / 1800 015 188
Emergency accommodation, material aid and professional support for those who literally have nowhere else to go. There are crisis accommodation centers located at Southbank, East St Kilda, Dandenong and South Melbourne.
Southbank Phone: 03 9699 4566
Dandenong Phone: 03 9792 0750
South Melbourne: 03 8626 5500
East St Kilda: 03 9525 8499
Web: www.hanover.org.au
Melbourne Homeless Services
Phone: 1800 627 727
Web: www.melbourne.homeless.org.au