A–Z Service Directory

Overview for Children

• for 5 - 8 year olds (download)
• for 9 - 12 year olds (download)
• links for children & young people
• Need to Know - A guide for young people who have a parent with mental illness
• Its about you too - A guide for children who have a parent with a mental illness.

Factsheets

• mental illness
• psychosis
• obsessive compulsive disorder
• schizophrenia
• depression
• bipolar disorder
• anxiety
• parents with eating disorder (for children)
• borderline personality disorder (for children)

Links to Help Parents

• Talking to children & young people
• Resources for parents with a mental illness (COPMI)
• FaPMI statewide website (for children, young people & families)
• Books and other resources for working with families and children where a parent has a mental illness
• Supporting our family (kit from COMIC)
• Satellite Foundation - Connecting children, young people and their families where a parent has a mental illness.
• Eastern Parentzone 'Parent News': A Quarterly newsletter with supports for families in the eastern region (including the municipalities of Boroondara, Knox, Manningham, Maroondah, Monash, Whitehorse, Yarra Ranges). Sections include parenting adolescents, sole parents, CALD, Mental Health / postnatal Depression and more
• Parentline - provides support, counselling and parent education
• School Holiday Activities - Yarra Ranges
• Making Time to Talk - Advice for parents with mental illness

Free booklets from COPMI

• The Best for Me & My Baby
• Family Talk
• Piecing the Puzzle together

>> Order copies in English

>> Order in six languages

A parenting resource kit

"Families and Mental Health: a parenting resource kit" is a practical resource for families and workers to assist parents to positively meet daily parenting challenges. It gives families information about parenting, support services and resources.

The parenting resource kit developed by the Department of Health (families & mental health) contains sections that can be selected and worked on together with the parent and the professional or it can be provided to the parent.

This resource kit is now out of print but the booklet, (booklet may take a few minutes to load)  can be downloaded from the Department of Health website.

• Department of Health: resources for workers and parents and parents

Care and Crisis Action Plan Info

• Crisis Action Plan
• Care Plan (COPMI)

Substance Use & Mental Illness Info

•  Australian Drug Foundation
• Dual diagnosis resources (NSW DoCS) downloadable resources for clinicians parents and children
• Tools for change - a new way of working with families & carers (NADA)
• Parenting support toolkit: Overview, booklet 1: exploring parenting issues, booklet 2: tools, booklet 3: service and resource guide (booklets may take a few minutes to load.)
• 'Familiar Needs Working with children and families in AOD services' – a resource folder provided to AOD service providers attending forums to build the sectors capacity to address the needs of individuals, families and communities run in 2010 by VAADA (Victorian Alcohol and Drug Association - peak body for alcohol and other drug (AOD) services in Victoria).

Training Resources

• Keeping Families and Children in Mind is a free self-directed online training resource developed for professionals who support families where a parent has a mental illness.

CHAMPS After School Program Facilitators Training

This is a one day training opportunity for anyone who is interested in running groups for children who have a parent with a mental illness. The next training will be held in October. For further details or if you would like to hold a training session in your local area please contact Bronwyn Sanders, FaPMI program support worker, on 0408 291580 or email bronwyn.sanders@easternhealth.org.au

The training will provide:

• An overview of the philosophy and reasons for CHAMPS After School Groups
• An introduction to the CHAMPS "Facilitators Guide"
• An explanation of how to implement the session plans
• On completion of the training all participants will be Eastern Health endorsed CHAMPS facilitators and able to commence working as a CHAMPS facilitator within their own service. A certificate of participation will be provided.