Associate Members

ACT Mental Health Consumer Network
The ACT Mental Health Consumer Network is an organisation that is run by consumers for consumers. The network’s aim is to bring about a higher standard of health care in the mental health sector, through representation, lobbying and active involvement in new developments in the mental health sector.

ARAFMI Queensland Inc
Provides support services for families and friends of people with mental illness and/or psychiatric disability.

Artius Pty Ltd
Artius is one of the leading providers of vocational rehabilitation, health and fitness services. Based in South Queensland, clients include individuals, case managers, state and federal Government and large and small business.

Arts Access Australia
Arts Access Australia is the national body representing a dynamic network of State and Territory arts and disability organisations and individuals. They aim to increase access and participation in the arts for people with disabilities over all states and territories.

ASPIRE, A Pathway to Mental Health Inc
A not for profit organisation based in south west Victoria and across Tasmania, providing rehabilitation and support to those affected by mental illness and their families.

Bipolar Education Foundation
The Bipolar Education Foundation delivers tailored mentla health presentations to the community including high schools, businesses and sporting clubs.

blueVoices
blueVoices is the consumer and carer arm of beyondblue.  It is a national organisation with members in each State and Territory.  The goals of blueVoices are to raise awareness of depression and its impact by encouraging consumers and carers to 'give voice' to the lived experience of depression and related disorders.

Bunbury Pathways
Bunbury Pathways provides support to individuals with severe and persistent mental illness as well as support for family/ carers.

CatholicCare NT
CatholicCare NT is a social services agency operating under the auspices of the Catholic Diocese of Darwin. CatholicCare NT contributes to a society that values all its members by strengthening individuals, families and communities in ways that respect their dignity and culture. They provide social services and are a voice for people in need.

Centacare Catholic Family Services
Centacare Catholic Family Services is the official community service agency of the Catholic Archdiocese of Adelaide. Centacare delivers responsive, flexible and effective services to the South Australian community without regard to religion, race, cultural or economic circumstance.

Central Coast Family Support Service Inc
Home based counselling services and groups for disadvantaged families in the Gosford LGA who are in stress or crisis. The service assists families to enhance autonomous functioning and to develop skills.

Club Haven
Club Haven is a social and support network for adults (aged 18-60) with mental illnesses who live in Devonport and surrounding areas.

Coffs Harbour Employment Support Services Inc (CHESS)

Coffs Harbour Employment Support Service (CHESS) assists their clients to prepare for and maintain employment.

Comic Australia Foundation
Comic was formed at a forum held on 18 February 2000, and is comprised of a group of adult children who share a common interest for children of mentally ill consumers. The group shares a common perception of the past failure by the mental health services to acknowledge them as children with unique needs and offer support.

Dulwich Centre Foundation
Dulwich Centre is an independent centre in Adelaide, Australia involved in narrative approaches to therapy and community work, training, publishing, supporting practitioners in different parts of the world, and co-hosting international conferences.

Eating Disorders Foundation of Victoria Inc
The Eating Disorders Foundation of Victoria is the primary source of support, information, community education and advocacy for people with eating disorders and their families in Victoria.

Fernhills Clinic
Fernhills Clinic is a private, bulk billing Psychologist practice located between Boronia and Ferntree gully.

Finding Workable Solutions Inc
Maintaining a strong focus in areas in rural South Australia, Finding Workable Solutions Inc is predominantly a Commonwealth funded organisation providing assistance to job seekers with a disadvantage and/or disability.

Gold Coast Centre Against Sexual Violence Inc
A free and confidential service run by women for women. They aim to provide a safe, supportive, woman-centered environment, in which sexual assault survivors can become aware of their own strengths and gain confidence and control of their lives.

Gold Coast Drug Council
Gold Coast Drug Council provide programs which offer clients practical skills that can help their behaviour to become more self-regulatory, and enhance their choices in making major lifestyle changes in order to minimise the harm of their drug(s) of dependence.

Graceville Centre
Graceville Centre provides support to individuals living with a psychiatric and/or intellectual disability. All Graceville services are conducted by working with individuals in a strength based and recovery focussed framework.

Homecare Services Pty Ltd
Homecare Services provides social support, respite care and domestic assistance services to Home and Community Care (HACC) eligible clients. Based in Leederville, WA, they also provide in-home support services for veterans and war widow/widowers

Hunter Women’s Centre
Hunter Women's Centre is a feminist non-profit community organisation supporting the health and wellbeing of women from the Hunter.

JobCo Employment Services Inc.
JobCo Employment Services Inc. is a community based not-for-profit employment service provider which has been delivering a comprehensive range of employment solutions to employers and job seekers in the Melbourne and metropolitan region since 1994.

Junaya Family Development Services

Junaya Family Development Services seeks to provide empowering, effective, efficient, hopeful and potentially transforming strategies and resources that families can use to enact the change they want and need in their lives.

Karakan Hostels Inc
Administered by volunteers, Karakan Hostels Inc provides a community based housing/support for people no longer needing to reside in institutions.

LAMP Inc

Lamp provides support services for people with mental illness, their carers and family members living in local South West communities.

Lantern
Lantern is a community based not-for-profit  organisation providing quality services to people with mental illness, and their carers, friends family and the community.

McAuley Community Services for Women
McAuley Community Services for Women provides accommodation, support and advocacy for women and their children who are homeless, resulting primarily from family violence or mental illness.

Melaleuca Refugee Centre, Torture and Trauma Survivor Centre NT
Melaleuca Refugee Centre Torture Trauma Survivors Service of the NT Incorporated is a community-controlled, not-for-profit Association operating out of Darwin. The Association was first established in 1996 as the Torture Trauma Survivors Service of the NT Incorporated to cater for the small numbers of refugees and asylum seekers wanting to settle.

Mental Illness Education ACT
MIEACT educates the Canberra community about mental illness. Through their websites, theatre projects, community consultations, and art and digital media projects, they communicate stories and facts about mental illness to the wider community.

Mental Illness Fellowship of North Queensland

A specialist mental health services provider in the North Queensland region – from Sarina in the south, Mt Isa and the border in the west and the Torres Strait Islands in the north. We have offices in Townsville, Cairns and Mackay.

Mental Illness Fellowship of Queensland
The Mental Illness Fellowship of Queensland provides services and support for people living with schizophrenia and other serious mental illness (including bipolar disorder, chronic depression), and their family members.


Mentally Healthy WA

Act-Belong-Commit is a community-based health promotion campaign that encourages people to take action to improve their mental health and wellbeing.

Norwood Association Inc
Norwood Association provides rehabilitation services to adults (16-64 years of age) who live with mental health issues & resulting disabilities, residing within the communities of Brimbank, Melton & Sunbury.

NSW Consumer Advisory Group – Mental Health Inc
The NSW Consumer Advisory Group – Mental Health Inc. (NSW CAG) is the statewide, incorporated, non-government peak body that represents people who use mental health services (mental health consumers) to all levels of the NSW Government.

Open Minds
Open Minds provides community based support to people living with mental illness, intellectual disability or acquired brain injury throughout South East Queensland

Peer Support Foundation

Peer Support Australia is dedicated to providing dynamic peer led programs which foster the mental, social and physical wellbeing of young people and their community.

Peninsula Support Services Inc

Peninsula Support Services Inc. is a not-for-profit and registered charitable organisation that provides Support Rehabilitation, Intensive Outreach and Home Based Outreach Services to people with mental illness who live within the areas of the Mordialloc to Portsea (Mornington Peninsula, Frankston area).

Queensland Voice for Mental Health
Queensland Voice for Mental Health was launched as a united voice for consumers and carers to actively promote the health and wellbeing of Queenslands through advocacy, cooperation and education.

Reconnexion Inc
Reconnexion Inc provides counselling and support for people dependent on tranquillisers (benzodiazepines) and to raise awareness of the risk of dependency associated with long term prescribing of benzodiazepines.

Ruah Community Services

Rush Community Services is a not-for-profit community service organisation.  It is committed to working in partnership with citizens marginalised by mainstream society to enable them to overcome their disadvantage, improve the quality of their lives, enhance their spirit and participate more fully in the community.

Social Firms Australia

Social Firms Australia is a not-for-profit organisation committed to creating accessible employment for people with a mental illness or disability. It does this through the development of social firms, and the promotion of effective support strategies to the broader workplace.

Supported Options in Lifestyle and Access Services (SOLAS) Inc
SOLAS is a highly flexible and responsive individualised accommodation support and community access service for people with long term diagnosed mental illness and/or psychiatric disability.

Tarampa After Care Centre Pty Ltd
We are a Queensland Government, fully accredited, privately owned Level III Residential Service founded in 1979. The facility is situated on 12 acres in the beautiful Lockyer Valley just half an hour from Ipswich.

The Anxiety Recovery Centre Victoria
The Anxiety Recovery Centre Victoria (ARCVic) is a state-wide, specialist mental health organisation, providing support, recovery and educational services to people and families living with anxiety disorders. We aim to support and equip people with knowledge and skills that will build resilience and recovery and reduce the impact of anxiety disorders.

The Centre for Rurual and Remote Mental Health Queensland
The Centre for Rurual and Remote Mental Health Queensland was established in 2006. The Centre supports international, national and state principles for holistic health, dignity and wellbeing for everyone.

The Compassionate Friends Victoria Inc
The Compassionate Friends Victoria Inc. is part of a world-wide organisation offering friendship and understanding to families following the death of a son or daughter, brother or sister. TCF offers support in the grief and trauma which follows the death of a child at any age and from any cause.

UCare Gawler Inc
UnitingCare seeks to transform lives, community and society into places of hope and opportunity for everyone. Through its agencies and schools, UnitingCare demonstrates its commitment to supporting vulnerable members of our community and the importance of engaging all people in advocating for a better world.

WISE Employment Ltd
WISE Employment is a not-for-profit community service that provide assistance to job seekers and employers under the Disability Employment Network and Job Services Australia. They also offer comprehensive training and retraining for job seekers, as well as training for employers.

WISHIN (Women’s Information, Support and Housing in the North)
A community based, non-government organisation that provides support to single women, with or without children, in the northern metropolitan region of Melbourne, who are homeless or at risk of homelessness.

Workability
Workability is an innovative charitable organisation that supports people with disabilities, mental health problems and those who are marginalised within the community.

Youth and Family Service (Logan City) Inc
YFS is a not-for-profit, community-based organisation that provides responsive and creative social welfare services to people in Logan City and surrounding areas.