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Schizophrenia Fellowship of NSW
(AU, 58903786913) Browse events
YTD Raised: $1,649.29
(AU, 58903786913) The Schizophrenia Fellowship of NSW works to improve the lives of people living with mental illness, and their relatives and carers, through a range of programs, including respite services, mentoring, supported accommodation, employment help, a telephone support line and health and wellbeing programs. It advocates for better government policy and greater community understanding.
Gidget Foundation
(AU, 52160202960) Browse events
YTD Raised: $1,553.77The Gidget Foundation exists to promote awareness of Perinatal Anxiety and Depression amongst women and their families, their health providers and the wider community to ensure that those in need receive timely, appropriate and supportive care.
Suicide Prevention Australia
(AU, 64461352676) Browse events
YTD Raised: $1,537.00Suicide Prevention Australia (SPA) is the peak body for the suicide prevention sector in Australia. SPA works collaboratively to develop a community that knows how to ask for help and how to give help. Few people realise that suicide is a bigger killer than road accidents or skin cancer in Australia. We want to see the number of suicides halve in the next decade. As the lead agency of the National Suicide Prevention Coalition, we build and facilitate partnerships to reduce the stigma around mental illness and suicide, and to assist the healing for people with lived experience of suicide attempts and suicide.
The Association for Childhood Language and Related Disorders (CHI.L.D.)
(AU, 80797929089) Browse events
YTD Raised: $1,514.21CHI.L.D The Association for Childhood Language and Related Disorders, operates the Glenleighden School and the Let’s Talk Development Hub. CHI.L.D is the only organisation in Australia to offer multidisciplinary (speech language pathology, occupational therapy, physiotherapy, psychology as well as specialised teaching and music therapy) support to children with severe primary speech and language disorder. The disability, language disorder, is poorly understood by parents, teachers and the community at large. It carries significant risk of school failure and poor social and emotional outcomes in adult life. CHI.L.D has been operating educational programs for children faced with this disability for almost 40 years. At CHI.L.D we help children and young people to speak....and find their voice.
ACH Group (Aged Care and Housing Group Incorporated)
(AU, 99437071895) Browse events
YTD Raised: $1,359.85ACH Group Foundation for Older Australians was created in 2003 to support older people to rediscover their passions or develop new ones by funding innovative projects that focus on fitness and wellbeing. We rely on the generosity of the community for financial support to allow us to achieve our single minded vision - Good Lives for Older People.
AFFIRM: The Australian Foundation for Mental Health Research
(AU, 42008198644) Browse events
YTD Raised: $1,254.43AFFIRM aims to reduce the prevalence of mental health disorders by funding research designed to inform prevention and intervention programs. AFFIRM also raises awareness of mental health illness through stigma-reduction initiatives. We are unique in our focus on investing in mental health research for the Australian community.
Raise Foundation
(AU, 49306288644) Browse events
YTD Raised: $1,120.47
Raise Foundation is a non-profit organisation which improves the lives of young people in our community. We provide school and community based mentoring programs and personal development workshops for young people who are facing profound challenges in their lives, including mental health, substance abuse, and sexual health issues. We put into practise the idea that it takes a village to raise a child and we tangibly impact the lives of young people through mentoring and workshops.
Teen Challenge WA
(AU, 19700455294) Browse events
YTD Raised: $1,120.00Teen Challenge is WA's largest youth drug and alcohol rehabilitation and training centre. Situated just outside Esperance on the south coast of WA, the program, which detoxes cold turkey from all addictive substances including nicotine, can accommodate 40 young people, both male and female, aged over 16.
acon
(AU, 38136883915) Browse events
YTD Raised: $1,115.00ACON is NSW's and Australia’s largest community-based gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender (GLBT) health and HIV/AIDS organisation. We promote the health and wellbeing of the GLBT community and people affected by HIV, and reduce HIV transmission. Our work also covers other health issues for our communities such as: Sexual health Mental health Alcohol and other drug use Ageing Homophobic violence Domestic violence Counselling Community care Housing
Odyssey House Victoria
(AU, 11005583960) Browse events
YTD Raised: $1,066.00Odyssey House Victoria's vision is a society free from the problematic use of alcohol and other drugs in which people reach their full potential and are meaningfully engaged in work, family and community life. We offer: • Drug and alcohol intervention services for young people and their families. • Support and financial assistance to children where a parent has an alcohol or other drug problem. • Adult counselling and case management. • Intensive supported accommodation across Melbourne and regional Victoria for those recovering from alcohol and other drug problems. • An 85 bed long-term and a 15 bed short–term residential rehabilitation programs. • Vocational, financial education and employment programs. • Intensive in-home child and family support services where a parent has an alcohol or other drug problem. • Youth and Family Services outreach programs for young people (12 to 24 years) experiencing problems with alcohol or other drugs. • Counselling for families affected by a young person’s drug and mental health issues. • Nationally accredited training.
SMART Recovery Australia
(AU, 68217832949) Browse events
YTD Raised: $1,002.70SMART Recovery is a voluntary self-help group that assists people in recovering from alcohol, drug use and other addictive behaviours. SMART Recovery teaches practical skills to help you deal with problems enabling you to abstain and achieve a healthy lifestyle balance.
The Wayside Chapel
(AU, 88125771587) Browse events
YTD Raised: $993.40The Wayside Chapel has provided unconditional love and support for people on and around the streets of Kings Cross since 1964. Many of these people have endured lives of great hardship and struggle with alcohol and other drug addictions, mental health issues and homelessness. Some people are fortunate to have supportive families, friends and neighbors, good physical and mental health and inner strength even in the face of great adversity. For those that don’t, there’s The Wayside Chapel.
Mental Illness Fellowship of Queensland
(AU, 37341566326) Browse events
YTD Raised: $951.06Mental Illness Fellowship Queensland (MIFQ) is a specialist provider of programs and services for people living with a mental illness, their families and carers. Established in 1986, we work in five communities across Queensland, supporting thousands of people each year. As many as 1 in 5 of us will experience some form of mental illness in our lifetime. MIFQ is committed to providing appropriate support to individuals and carers and is focussed on the prevention of the disabling aspects of mental illness. Your donation helps us help more people – thank you.
Lifeline
(AU, 84081034263) Browse events
YTD Raised: $844.12Lifeline provides all Australians with access to crisis support and suicide prevention services. Lifeline’s 24 hour telephone crisis support line – 13 11 14 – is available to anyone needing crisis support day or night. Trained volunteer telephone crisis supporters answer over 650,000 calls each year via this telephone service.
Life Education Victoria
(AU, 64390479723) Browse events
YTD Raised: $762.00all children, to make informed decisions related to drugs, health and wellbeing via innovative and memorable educational programs, along with our very much-loved and well-known mascot, Healthy Harold. We empower children Victoria-wide regardless of age, ethnicity, culture, health status or socio-economic background. Our programs focus on early intervention, capacity building and empowerment, resulting in safe choices and positive behaviours. LEV promote attaining, maintaining and sustaining health – mind and body; we provide information which influences health-related decisions; we actively encourage the pursuit of healthy activities and we assist in the development of a healthy attitude to wellness – we position ourselves as a respected authority on the welfare and wellbeing of children. Our program is age appropriate, evidence-based and current and is delivered in specially designed Mobile Learning Centres which are towed to schools. The MLCs contain advanced technology to enable interactive teaching. This experience provides a memory for the child – instilled within the memory of the experience is the message related to the session content which may be related to nutrition; drugs; feelings; bullying; alcohol and tobacco; the human body and cyber safety. We deliver the LE message and program to approximately 140,000 children in Victoria via a team of 25 specially trained Educators who facilitate the sessions and as we work in partnership with schools, we are pleased to provide support to teachers via advice and the provision of resources, enabling ongoing, reiterative education in the classroom. Operations are supported by office staff and management, and more than 100 volunteers, including a dedicated and high-functioning Board of Directors who work tirelessly due to their belief and passion.
The Society for Mental Health Research
(AU, 63775416041) Browse events
YTD Raised: $720.00The Society for Mental Health Research aims to prevent mental illness by supporting mental health research, and researchers; facilitating collaboration between different disciplines of mental health research; raising awareness of mental health issues and supporting the inclusion of mental health issues in the development of health policies, funding and services
Irish Support Agency NSW Incorporated
(AU, 70880566535) Browse events
YTD Raised: $720.00The Irish Support Agency promotes a sense of connection, social inclusion and health and wellbeing programs to the extended Irish Community in NSW, while providing them with confidential, sympathetic, caring support in times of crisis and distress.
RichmondPRA
(AU, 66001280628) Browse events
YTD Raised: $716.21RichmondPRA is one of Australia's most experienced not-for-profit mental health organisations. Since 1955, we have worked in local communities to help people on their mental health recovery journey. We assist people to get back on track and reconnect with the community by helping them to find somewhere to live that is safe, to secure meaningful employment, to learn new skills, to make new friends and to get well and stay well. During 2013/14 RichmondPRA provided services and programs around New South Wales and Queensland to 4,482 people across 64 locations. With one in five (20%) Australians aged 16-85 experiecing a mental health issue every year, RichmondPRA's services are vital to help keep people out of hospital, assist people to live independently and keep people connected to their communities, families and friends. With your donation we are able to help more people on their mental health recovery journey. We, and those we support, deeply appreciate your generosity. For more information on how your donation makes a difference, please contact our Fundraising Manager on 02 9393 9049
Anglicare NSW South NSW West and ACT
(AU, 69198255076) Browse events
YTD Raised: $638.79Anglicare is there for so many people, regardless of age, race or religion. From the very young in foster care, to the troubled teen, the family escaping a violent situation, and the aged person who needs to talk, Anglicare has programs to assist. Some of these programs receive government funding, but even they rely on supporters like you to help our team of dedicated staff and volunteers go the extra mile in helping people in a time of crisis. Our motto, “Strength for today, Hope for tomorrow” has never been more evident than in the way donors, like you, choose to enable Anglicare to continue bringing hope and strength to individuals, families and communities
Hope Bereavement
(AU, 76451676675) Browse events
YTD Raised: $637.06Hope Bereavement believes that 'no-one should be alone in grief'. We provide free grief and bereavement support to any person in the greater Geelong region impacted by the death of a child or an adult. Support is offered at the time of crisis and through on-going bereavement support groups.
Make a Difference
(AU, 16093464512) Browse events
YTD Raised: $600.00Helping those impacted by or at risk of mental illness, particularly children and young people in Sydney's south-west. Between Bankstown and Bowral there are 26,000 children with a parent with a mental illness. We run camps, provide mentoring, and offer financial assistance to the young people in these families. We are a small, grass roots organisation. We treat people the way you'd want your son or daughter treated. Everyone in our organisation is heavily involved at the coalface, running camps and volunteering their time to help young people in need. At the same time, we are professionally run, with a high quality board and a track record of successfully delivering services over 13 years.
KYDS
(AU, 11563715017) Browse events
YTD Raised: $583.00KYDS aim is to improve the health and well being of young people in Northern Sydney and to provide professional and accessible counselling services, youth development and education to promote positive change for young people and their families. We offer a free, confidential counselling service for 12 to 18 years old young people and their families.
National Centre for Childhood Grief
(AU, 79098660130) Browse events
YTD Raised: $574.22NCCG provides a unique bereavement support service, free of charge, to children grieving the death of a parent or sibling. Services include individual counselling, group counselling programs and extensive support for the children and their families.
House With No Steps
(AU, 31001813403) Browse events
YTD Raised: $534.17At House with No Steps, we’ve been agents for change since the 1960s when our founder, Lionel Watts, made it his mission to break down barriers for people with a disability. We provide support to over 3000 people with a disability and their families and carers in over 200 locations thoughout NSW, QLD and the ACT. We provide a broad range of support services to people with intellectual, mental health, sensory and physical disabilities. Our focus is on people’s abilities and what they can achieve.
Southern Cross Care (WA)
(AU, 55046572944) Browse events
YTD Raised: $519.91Established in 1966, Southern Cross Care (WA) Inc. (SCC) is one of the largest and leading care providers in Western Australia offering support and accommodation in metropolitan, regional and remote areas. We also have extensive experience in dementia and mental health services.