NB: ACYS is not a crisis support centre. Telephone 000 in an emergency.
Crisis support for youth:
Telehone help lines:
- Kids Help Line: phone: 1800 55 1800
A telephone counselling service for children and young people, Kids Help Line also offers email and web counselling services to give young people but please remember that if your issue is an urgent one, the telephone is still the fastest way of getting to a counsellor. - Lifeline: phone: 13 1114
Telephone counselling service available 24 hours for the cost of a local call. - Sane Help Line: 1800 688 382 (Mondays to Fridays 9 a.m to 5 p.m.)
- Counselling online (a service from Turning Point Alcohol and Drug Centre)
headspace list of useful links and fact sheets for youth.
Reach Out! is a web-based service that helps young people to get through tough times by providing support and helpful information in a format that appeals to young people. While Reach Out! does not offer online counselling, the information and interactive features on their site provide young people with a good first step towards working through difficulties themselves, with the option of seeking further help if they choose to. Reach Out! combines factual information with inspiring stories about how other people have coped with difficult times. Reach Out! is an initiative of the Inspire Foundation.
Youth Beyondblue is a web-based national information service for young people that is all about getting the message out there that it's okay to talk about depression, and to encourage young people and their family and friends to get help when it's needed. The service was begun in 2000 as Ybblue, as a Centenary of Federation Millennium Legacy Initiative run through Toowong Private Hospital in Brisbane, Queensland. Doctors, advertising agencies, health professionals, web designers, musicians, young people and many other groups worked together to set up the service to address the high youth suicide rates in Australia. In 2002, beyondblue: the national depression initiative partnered with the Toowong Private Hospital to support the Youthbeyondblue campaign and take it nationwide. Since then, beyondblue has worked to expand the focus of the campaign from suicide to youth depression awareness and prevention in general, and to involve young people in all it does.
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