LEAP/HOPE

ASTERIA Services Incorporated

ASTERIA Services Inc. is a Not for Profit, Disability Service, located in Maryborough, Central Victoria. Founded in 1972, ASTERIA Services Inc offers a ‘one stop shop’ to facilitate all aspects of Disability Support to clients/ workers, carers and the general public.

http://www.asteriaservices.net.au/

Bendigo Access Employment

Bendigo Access Employment provides support to find and keep a job. Bendigo Access Employment is the largest local provider of Disability Employment Services in a local area spreading from Wedderburn to Gisborne and from Heathcote across to Maryborough. Job seekers with disability have immediate access to tailored services that are flexible and responsive to both their needs and those of employers. To provide the best possible services to job seekers, Bendigo Access Employment has upgraded its premises to create more private client interview rooms with better access to IT resources. Bendigo Access Employment provides specialised employment help for people with a disability, injury or illness.

http://www.accessemployment.com.au/

Bendigo Health – Bendigo and Maryborough sites

Bendigo Health is an expanding multi-service regional health organisation based in Bendigo, and is the largest regional health provider in Victoria.

http://www.bendigohealth.org.au

Break Thru People Solutions – Preston site

Break Thru People Solution is an Australian not-for-profit organisation that provides a wide range of services across New South Wales, Queensland and Victoria. They are renowned for their expertise in providing employment services to a wide range of job seekers including people who are long term unemployed, indigenous Australians, people with a disability, injury or health condition and those from a non-English speaking background.

Break Thru People Solutions also offers a range of both accredited and non-accredited skills training and education services for both employers and job seekers. Their training caters for a wide array of people including those that are mature aged, parents returning to the workforce or those looking for work after injury or illness.

http://www.breakthru.org.au/

Brunswick Employment Agency/North West Employment Group

North West Employment Group is a not for profit association. It is working with people with disabilities to achieve their personal and professional goals. NWEG Inc specialises in delivering an individualised employment support services to people who face additional barriers to employment.

http://www.bea.org.au

CRS Australia – South Yarra site

CRS Australia is a leading provider of disability employment and assessment services, assisting people with a disability, injury or health condition into employment. CRS Australia consists of a team of allied health professions who work in partnership with employers and Job Seekers to ensure a safe and suitable return to work by providing injury prevention and injury management services.

http://www.crsaustralia.gov.au/

Inner South Community Health Service

Inner South Community Health Service is a major provider of health and community services in the inner southern region of Melbourne, Australia. It provides primary health care services across four sites.

http://www.ischs.org.au/

JobCo. Employment Services Inc. – Brunswick site

JobCo. Employment Services 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 metropolitan region since 1994.
 

http://www.jobco.com.au

Mercy Mental Health Service

Mercy Mental Health is the provider of public adult mental health services for the southwest metropolitan area. Mercy Mental Health is made up of a number of treating teams who provide specialist assessment, treatment and ongoing care to people who have serious mental health problems. They also give support and advice to families and carers.

 

http://www.mercy.com.au/

Merri Community Health Service

Merri Community Health Services Limited (MCHS) formerly known as Moreland Community Health Service Inc was formed in 1993. It operates from a number of sites in the city of Moreland and in the northern suburb of Melbourne. MCHS serves a community of over 140,000 across the northern region of Melbourne.

http://www.merrichs.org.au

Mind –Brunswick, Bendigo, Albert Park, Armadale & Dandenong sites

Mind supports individuals with mental health challenges in their recovery journey by supporting them to live well within the community. Mind does this through supporting people to set and achieve their own goals, manage their mental and physical health, develop a clear sense of personal identity, develop trusting and supportive relationships and develop sustainable skills to live independently within the community.

http://www.mindaustralia.org.au

Neami – Thornbury, Regent sites, Heidelberg and Briar Hill sites

Neami is a mental health rehabilitation and support provider working with, and on behalf of, people with a mental illness. Neami works to identify service gaps in the community, develop new services, achieve community acceptance and advocate for the rights of people with mental illness living in the community. Various State and Federal departments fund its services.

http://www.neami.org.au/

Neighbourhood Renewal – Prahran and Maryborough sites

Neighbourhood Renewal aims to narrow the gap between disadvantaged communities and the rest of the State. It is an approach that brings together the resources and ideas of residents, governments, businesses and community groups to tackle disadvantage in areas with concentrations of public housing. Neighbourhood Renewal is creating vibrant places where people want to live.

http://www.neighbourhoodrenewal.vic.gov.au/

North West Area Mental Health Service

Northwestern Mental Health is one of the largest mental health services in Australia. It provides comprehensive hospital based community and specialist services to youth, adults and aged people across northern and western Melbourne to 1.2 million people.

http://www.mh.org.au/nw_mental_health

Prahran Mission

The Prahran Mission purpose is to partner with those who have or have had a mental illness or experience extreme social and economic disadvantage in order to facilitate a full and meaningful life. Prahran Mission achieves this through the provision of services that are grounded in their values and by effecting beneficial social change that creates opportunities for meaningful participation in society. Prahran Mission works to address those attitudes, institutions and policies which create and perpetuate inequality.

http://www.prahranmission.org.au/

Southern Health – Doveton CCU

Southern Health is the largest mental health service provider in Victoria. 

There are four Community Mental Health Centres and an Early Psychosis service:

  • Southern Community Team in East Hampton
  • Clayton Community Team in Clayton
  • Dandenong Community Team in Dandenong
  • Casey/Cardinia Community Team in Berwick
  • Recovery and Prevention of Psychosis Service operating across the whole catchment

There are three residential rehabilitation services as well as 4 inpatient units and specialist services including an Eating Disorders Unit and Mother & Baby Unit.

http://www.southernhealth.org.au/

St Luke's

St Luke’s provides many types of services ranging from family counseling, out-of-home and respite care, youth housing, psychiatric disability programs, and gambler’s help and financial counseling. They’re involved in programs that explore ways to build neighbourhood support in communities. They host support groups, art groups, music groups and youth entrepreneurial projects to build self-esteem, confidence and develop skills.

http://www.stlukes.org.au/

WCIG

Established in 1986, WCIG has a long and proud history in the delivery of innovative and high quality employment services for those in our community who experience the greatest levels of disadvantage.

Based in Melbourne’s west with offices in Footscray, Melton, Sunshine, St. Albans and Werribee, WCIG has in recent times expanded its operations announcing the opening of its new offices in Moonee Ponds, Dallas and Broadmeadows.

http://www.wcig.org.au/

Western Region Health Centre

The Western Region Health Centre Ltd. is committed to improving the health and well being of the people who live and work in the Western Region by providing an accessible range of comprehensive, high quality and integrated health and welfare services. It provides a range of medical services.

http://www.wesleyemployment.com.au/

WISE Employment

Founded in Australia in 1992, WISE Employment is a not-for-profit community service organisation, with branches across Victoria, New South Wales, Tasmania and the Northern Territory. WISE is committed to supporting disadvantaged members of the community and provide assistance to job seekers and employers under the Australian Government’s Disability Employment Services

http://www.wiseemployment.com.au/

Worktrainers – Bendigo site

Worktrainers is a provider of federal government employment services of Job Services Australia (JSA) and Disability Employment Service (DES).

Disability Employment Service is a Federal Government Employment Program that assists people on the Disability Support Pension or who have a significant diagnosed disability to find and keep a job at award wages.

http://www.worktrainers.com.au/
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"…mental disorders are the largest source of disability and the third largest source of burden (exceeded only by cardiovascular disease and cancer) in Australia"
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