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Health concerns - Mental health

• 24-hour telephone contact numbers
• Towards recovery: From prevention and early intervention to recovery
• Charter for mental health care in NSW
• Caring for mental health
• Aboriginal Mental Health
• Children of parents with mental illness
• Dementia: Answers to common questions about memory loss and confusion
• Framework for Housing and Accommodation Support for People with Mental Health Problems and Disorders
• Framework for rehabilitation for mental health
• Getting in early: A framework for early intervention and prevention in mental health for young people in New South Wales
• Housing and Accomodation Support Initiative (HASI) Evaluation Report
• Implementation of NSW Government Response to the Select Committee Inquiry into Mental Health Services in New South Wales Status Report March 2007
• MH-COPES Measuring and Responding to Consumer Perceptions and Experiences of Adult Mental Health Services - Stage 1
• Mental health factsheets in many languages
• Parenting program for mental health
• School-Link: Helping adolescents with depression and related disorders
• Suicide: We can all make a difference

  Key documents

• NSW: A new direction for mental health
• NSW community mental health strategy 2007-2012
• Aboriginal Mental Health and Well Being Policy 2006-2010
• Interagency Action Plan for Better Mental Health
• Housing and Accommodation Support Initiative (HASI) for people with mental illness
• Housing and Accomodation Support Initiative (HASI) Evaluation Report
• NSW Service Plan for Specialist Mental Health Services for Older People (SMHSOP) 2005-2015

  Related links

  • What is mental illness?
  • What is an anxiety disorder?
  • What is bipolar mood disorder?
  • What is a depressive disorder?
  • What is an eating disorder?
  • What is a personality disorder?
  • What is schizophrenia?