Services

As a parent you need support for yourself as well as for your family. Giving age appropriate information regularly to children and young people helps them not to develop worries. Children can play a supportive role for parents and it is important that they know how to access support networks when needed.

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As a child or a young person who has a parent with a mental illness you may at times experience worries and it helps to have information about your parent's illness. We know that many of you provide a supportive role and it is important that you understand how to access support networks when you need them.

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Inspiro is a local, not-for-profit organisation providing healthcare services to the Yarra Ranges community including dental, physiotherapy, podiatry, dietetics and nutrition advice. Theyoffer a range of counselling services including general, depression and anxiety, family violence, drug and alcohol, and youth and family counselling. Inspiro provides a free youth counselling service (PDF, 721KB) for young people age between 12 to 25 years, including Space4Us (PDF, 388KB) - a free peer support program for young people age 13-18 years who have a family member with a family illness.

For more information about Space4Us, please contact our Youth Counsellors on 9738 8801 or visit their website.

Click here for more information about Support and Education Groups in Melbourne Eastern Region.

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Families where a parent has a mental illness come into contact with a wide variety of service systems. All have a part to play to build better outcomes. Below are some links to tools and resources  that can help your service system be more responsive

• VicChamps  was a state funded three-year project that created the foundation for the FaPMI strategy. The project’s history and evaluation documents can be found here.
• COPMI has resources tailored to specific settings (e.g. early childhood/ schools/ inpatient mental health etc.)
• Training resources

Our team works with the network of mental health agencies in the Eastern Region who directly work with patients and families, supporting them with workforce development, systems and procedure development, secondary/tertiary consultations and facilitating partnerships for service delivery. Eastern Health FaPMI co-ordinates some programs for children of parents with a mental illness called CHAMPS.

• Specialist mental health services
• Child Youth and Family Services
• Alcohol and other drug services
• Early Years and Perinatal Support
• Universal services i.e local government, community health and youth services.
• Families and carers