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Organisations engaged in/facilitating consumer research
| Title | URL | Organisation | Summary |
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| Ageing Research Online |
http://www.aro.gov.au |
Australian Government |
Australian Government initiative. Provides information on ageing relevant policy, research initiatives, research funding, and courses. Provides online discussion forum for issues and events in aging research around Australia. |
| Auseinet |
http://auseinet.flinders.edu.au/ |
Auseinet |
Australian Network for Promotion, Prevention and Early Intervention for Mental Health, began as part of the National Suicide Prevention Strategy. It informs, educates and promotes good practice across the community about mental health.The site provides a comprehensive list of resources on mental health issues you can download or order many. It produces and distributes the Australian e-journal for the advancement of mental health. |
| Australian Mental Health Consumer Network |
http://www.amhcn.com.au |
Australian Mental Health Consumer Network |
National network of mental health consumer advisory groups. Web-site includes state by state news updates, conference and event details, documents dealing with consumer participation, publications, newsletters, other resources for consumers and more. |
| Canadian Collaborative Mental Health Initiative |
http://www.ccmhi.ca/ |
Canadian Collaborative Mental Health Initiative |
The Canadian Collaborative Mental Health Initiative's goal is to improve the mental health and well-being of Canadians by increasing collaboration among health care providers, consumers, families and caregivers.
The website includes a section for researchers to exchange of information, ideas and research papers. This includes and Events directory, resources including references lists of research papers discussing collaborative mental health care and Toolkits.
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| Centre for Mental Health Research |
http://www.anu.edu.au/cmhr/ |
Australian National University |
The Centre for Mental Health Research studies a wide range of mental health issues. They investigate risk factors, causes and outcomes of mental health disorders using large epidemiological surveys and develop and evaluate interventions to help increase public knowledge about mental health disorders and prevent and treat mental health problems. They have a strong consumer focus. |
| Centre for Psychiatric Nursing Research and Practice |
http://www.son.unimelb.edu.au/cpnrp/about.html |
The University of Melbourne |
The Centre aims to work with psychiatric nurses, consumers, carers and other members of the multidisciplinary team to bring about the ongoing development and improvement of clinical practice.
They have been involved in several important research projects trialing consumers as tutors for medical and psychiatric nursing students with much success. The website is still under consturction. |
| Consumer Health Forum of Australia |
http://www.chf.org.au |
Consumer Health Forum of Australia |
The leading Australian organisation giving a voice to all health consumers. Governed by a committee elected by voting member organisations. CHF develops and maintains networks with organisatins for the advancement of consumer issues. Nominates and supports consumer representatives on government, industry and professional committees. Publishes a range of documents including the magazine The Australian Health Consumer, consumer representative support resources and project reports. |
| CONTAC - Consumer Organisation and Networking Technical Assistance Center |
http://www.contac.org/ |
Consumer Organisation and Networking Technical Assistance Center |
CONTAC is a resource center for consumers and consumer-run organizations across the United States. Available services and products include informational materials; on-site training and skill-building curricula; electronic and other communication capabilities; networking and customized activities promoting self-help, recovery, leadership, business management, and empowerment. |
| Depression and Anxiety Consumer Research Unit |
http://www.anu.edu.au/cmhr/consumer.php |
Depression and Anxiety Consumer Research Unit at The Centre For Mental Health Research, the Australian National University |
The Consumer Research Unit comprises qualified researchers who are also consumers. It aims to produce high quality research with a focus on the priorities and needs of consumers. BrolgaNet is a CRU initiative! |
| Informed health online |
http://www.informedhealthonline.org/item.aspx |
Health and Education Research Foundation / Cochrane Consumer Network Website |
Informed Health online aims to promote research literacy and individual and community use of high quality research information. It aims to provide the tools to enable people to keep up-to -date with reliable, evidence based health inforamtion. A key way it does this is promoting accessibilty to the Cochrane collaboration resources. The site also has some useful introductory articles describing research methods and how to read and understand review articles. |
| International Association for Public Participation |
http://www.twyford.com.au |
International Association for Public Participation |
A company that specialises in training (for both consumers and non-consumers) to facilitate consumer involvement in projects. |
| Mental Health and Telemedicine Organizations and Their Events |
http://www.umdnj.edu/psyevnts/states.html |
Myron Pulier |
Mental Health and Telemedicine Organizations and Their Events is a searchable worldwide calendar and locator resource maintained by Myron Pulier. It is a great place to find upcomming conferences and events around the world. You can search this site by date, location, keyword and more. Please send announcements of upcomming conferences to:
Dr. Pulier < pulierml@umdnj.edu > . |
| Mental Illness Fellowship of Australia |
http://www.schizophrenia.org.au |
Mental Illness Fellowship of Australia |
Formerly Schizophrenia Fellowship Council of Australia. A non-profit, grassroots, self-help, support and advacacy organisation for people with severe mental illnesses, their family and friends. Fellowships within the organisation have been activly involved in research and have developed trust funds for research into schizophrenia and allied disorders. Web site also provides summary information of relevant policies and a new section presents papers of interest. |
| MindIt |
http://www.qld.mentalhealth.org.au |
Queensland Mental Health Network |
An internet Network that aims to provide information about mental health issues and create connections between people and communities in Queensland who want to promote mental health. |
| Multicultural Mental Health Australia |
http://www.mmha.org.au |
Multicultural Mental Health Australia |
Leading National body promoting mental health of culturally and lingistically diverse (CALD) Australians. Inolved in education and advocacy of CALD mental health issues, including policy development, education of health professionals and dissemination of translated mental health information. Supports initiatives of CALD communities to prevent mental illness. Web site provides a data base of research projects in the area of multicultural mental health. |
| National Empowerment Centre Inc |
http://www.power2u.org |
National Empowerment Centre Inc |
US based consumer run organisation which aims to carry a message of hope, recovery, empowerment and healing to people who have been diagnosed with a mental illness. It contains articles, newsletters and a store where you can purchase education tools on a wide range of topics. |
| National Resource Centre for Consumer Participation in Health |
http://www.participateinhealth.org.au |
National Resource Centre for Consumer Participation in Health |
Provides a clearing house for information on consumer feedback and participation methods. Maintains an online library of resources and distributes free publications. Provides expert advice and assistance in developing, implementing and evaluating consumer participation research. Runs its own research projects on consumer participation topics (listed on web site). Funded by the Australian Commonwealth Department of Health and Aging. |
| Network For Graduates with a Disability |
anton@enable.net.au |
An initiative of Anton |
A FREE service for Graduates, Undergraduates and TAFE students with a disability and Advocates for the disadvantaged.
STEPS:
1) Email anton@enable.net.au with a short description of any tricky topic;
2) Then, I’ll visit a university library to find information on the topic;
3) Lastly, I’ll tell you where to find FREE information in a university library near you (any university in Australasia).
Why have I been doing similar professional-level work for FREE for 3 years? Because for me library research is a better hobby than general reading.
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| Primary Health Care Research and Information Service |
http://www.phcris.org.au |
Flinders University |
The Primary Health Care Research and Information Service is a national general practice and primary health care organisation. It is part of the Department of General Practice at
Flinders and functions as a gateway to general practice and primary
health care resources for practitioners, researchers, policy makers and
consumers. The website provides many resources including grants watch, research publications database, a how to do research tips page, and a new consumers and research page. They also publish a bi-monthly newsletter. |
| SARNet |
http://som.flinders.edu.au/FUSA/GP-Evidence/SARNet/default.htm |
Flinders University Primary Health Care Research, Evaluation and Development Program |
SARNet is a multidisciplinary network designed to enhance research and evaluation capacity in primary health care in South Australia and the Greater Green Triangle Region of Victoria. It is free to join and invites membership from all PHC professionals, registrars, students and consumer groups interested in research and evaluation. It provides training and support in research and evaluations skills, financial support (individual research bursaries and for writing grants). The website has a researcher discussion forum where a recent theme was consumers in research. |
| The Iowa Consortium for Mental Health |
http://www.medicine.uiowa.edu/icmh/ |
The Iowa Consortium for Mental Health |
The Iowa Consortium for Mental Health conducts and supports mental health services research focusing on the occurrence, recognition, and treatment of serious mental illness in community-based settings. The study of mental health service delivery to persons who live in rural areas is of special interest. Projects that promote interdisciplinary and interagency collaboration are encouraged. The website contains many useful documents about evidence based practices, recovery, medications etc. |
| The Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists |
http://www.ranzcp.org/publicarea/public.asp |
The Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists |
RANZCP is the principal body representing psychiatry in Australasia. The website contains information about psychiatry in Australia and New Zealand (including their code of ethics), the journals published by the College (Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry and Australasian Psychiatry) and information about mental health. |
| Victorian Mental Illness Awareness Council |
http://www.vmiac.com.au |
Victorian Mental Illness Awareness Council |
A great resource providing support, advocacy, service, education and information for people who use Vicotrian mental health services - they produce a regular newsletter of events, articles and consumer research in Victoria. A clearing house for consumer research, where you can add your own also. |
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Clearing Houses
| Title | URL | Organisation | Summary |
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| Blackwell Synergy Online Journal database |
http://www.blackwell-synergy.com |
Blackwell Synergy Online Journal database |
Online database of journals published by Blackwell Synergy. Article abstracts publicly available, full text articles available on subscription. |
| bmj.com |
http://bmj.bmjjournals.com/ |
British Medical Journal |
World leading general medical journal. The website contains the full text of all articles published in the weekly BMJ since January 1994. Offers most full text articles free to all although some recent articles have a period of restricted access for subscribers only. |
| Canadian Collaborative Mental Health Initiative |
http://www.ccmhi.ca/ |
Canadian Collaborative Mental Health Initiative |
The Canadian Collaborative Mental Health Initiative's goal is to improve the mental health and well-being of Canadians by increasing collaboration among health care providers, consumers, families and caregivers.
The website includes a section for researchers to exchange of information, ideas and research papers. This includes and Events directory, resources including references lists of research papers discussing collaborative mental health care and Toolkits.
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| Cochrane Collaboration Library |
http://www.update-software.com/cochrane/ |
Cochrane Collaboration |
The Cochrane Collaboration is an international non-profit, independent organisation dedicated to makeing top quality health information easily and freely accessable to all. It produces and distributes reviews of current evidence on an extensive range of topics which you can find in this library. |
| CONTAC - Consumer Organisation and Networking Technical Assistance Center |
http://www.contac.org/ |
Consumer Organisation and Networking Technical Assistance Center |
CONTAC is a resource center for consumers and consumer-run organizations across the United States. Available services and products include informational materials; on-site training and skill-building curricula; electronic and other communication capabilities; networking and customized activities promoting self-help, recovery, leadership, business management, and empowerment. |
| Google Scholar |
http://www.scholar.google.com/ |
Google |
An internet search engine that restricts resuslts to academic texts. It ranks papers by importance and finds the free versions. |
| MedBioWorld |
http://www.sciencekomm.at/med/journals/med-bio.html |
MedBioWorld |
A large medical reference site. It lists medical journals and associations and similar resources. The site provides a glossary of medical terms and links to websites of hundreds of psychiatric journals. |
| National Resource Centre for Consumer Participation in Health |
http://www.participateinhealth.org.au |
National Resource Centre for Consumer Participation in Health |
Provides a clearing house for information on consumer feedback and participation methods. Maintains an online library of resources and distributes free publications. Provides expert advice and assistance in developing, implementing and evaluating consumer participation research. Runs its own research projects on consumer participation topics (listed on web site). Funded by the Australian Commonwealth Department of Health and Aging. |
| National Resource Centre for Consumer Participation in Health Participate in Health Clearing House |
http://www.participateinhealth.org.au/clearinghouse/ |
National Resource Centre for Consumer Participation in Health Participate in Health |
This site had a lot of very useful adn relevant information includeing training resources for consumers and non-consumers who want to begin research partnerships and references and abstracts for many useful articles. |
| Primary Health Care Research and Information Service |
http://www.phcris.org.au |
Flinders University |
The Primary Health Care Research and Information Service is a national general practice and primary health care organisation. It is part of the Department of General Practice at
Flinders and functions as a gateway to general practice and primary
health care resources for practitioners, researchers, policy makers and
consumers. The website provides many resources including grants watch, research publications database, a how to do research tips page, and a new consumers and research page. They also publish a bi-monthly newsletter. |
| PubMed Central |
http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov |
PubMed Central |
Online public library of life science journal abstracts and articles developed and managed by the National Centre for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) at the U.S. National Library of Medicine.
You can search their electronic library of science, technology and medicine journal abstracts. Full text articles are available to institutions on subscription
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| SARNet |
http://som.flinders.edu.au/FUSA/GP-Evidence/SARNet/default.htm |
Flinders University Primary Health Care Research, Evaluation and Development Program |
SARNet is a multidisciplinary network designed to enhance research and evaluation capacity in primary health care in South Australia and the Greater Green Triangle Region of Victoria. It is free to join and invites membership from all PHC professionals, registrars, students and consumer groups interested in research and evaluation. It provides training and support in research and evaluations skills, financial support (individual research bursaries and for writing grants). The website has a researcher discussion forum where a recent theme was consumers in research. |
| The Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists |
http://www.ranzcp.org/publicarea/public.asp |
The Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists |
RANZCP is the principal body representing psychiatry in Australasia. The website contains information about psychiatry in Australia and New Zealand (including their code of ethics), the journals published by the College (Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry and Australasian Psychiatry) and information about mental health. |
| Victorian Mental Illness Awareness Council |
http://www.vmiac.com.au |
Victorian Mental Illness Awareness Council |
A great resource providing support, advocacy, service, education and information for people who use Vicotrian mental health services - they produce a regular newsletter of events, articles and consumer research in Victoria. A clearing house for consumer research, where you can add your own also. |
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Other - Universities and Research Centres
| Title | URL | Organisation | Summary |
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| Australian Catholic University |
http://www.acu.edu.au |
Australian Catholic University |
Australian Catholic Univerisity has campuses in Sydney, Melbourne, Canberra, Brisbane, Ballarat adn Strathfield. If offers a social work course and has strengths in education research, particularly lifelong learning and theological studies. One of it's flag ship reserach centres is the Social Policy and Advocacy Research Centre. |
| Australian National University |
http://www.anu.edu.au |
Australian National University |
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| Centre for Developmental Disability Health, Victoria |
http://cddh.med.monash.edu.au |
Monash University |
Through education, research and clinical activities the Centre aims to improve health outcomes for people with a developmental disability. Primarily it focuses on improving the capacity of the generic service system to cater for everyone. |
| Centre for Developmental Psychiatry & Psychology |
http://www.med.monash.edu.au/psychmed/units/devpsych/ |
Monash University |
Research and teaching in developmental psychiatry and psychology with a focus on child, adolescent and family mental health. Special interests include: mental health in children with developmental and intellectual disabilities, pervasive developmental disorders, school refusal and truancy, sexual abuse and trauma, anxiety and depression. |
| Centre for Mental Health Research |
http://www.anu.edu.au/cmhr/ |
Australian National University |
The Centre for Mental Health Research studies a wide range of mental health issues. They investigate risk factors, causes and outcomes of mental health disorders using large epidemiological surveys and develop and evaluate interventions to help increase public knowledge about mental health disorders and prevent and treat mental health problems. They have a strong consumer focus. |
| Centre for Psychiatric Nursing Research and Practice |
http://www.son.unimelb.edu.au/cpnrp/about.html |
The University of Melbourne |
The Centre aims to work with psychiatric nurses, consumers, carers and other members of the multidisciplinary team to bring about the ongoing development and improvement of clinical practice.
They have been involved in several important research projects trialing consumers as tutors for medical and psychiatric nursing students with much success. The website is still under consturction. |
| Mental Health and Telemedicine Organizations and Their Events |
http://www.umdnj.edu/psyevnts/states.html |
Myron Pulier |
Mental Health and Telemedicine Organizations and Their Events is a searchable worldwide calendar and locator resource maintained by Myron Pulier. It is a great place to find upcomming conferences and events around the world. You can search this site by date, location, keyword and more. Please send announcements of upcomming conferences to:
Dr. Pulier < pulierml@umdnj.edu > . |
| Monash Institute of Health Services Research |
http://203.94.147.62/about.asp |
Monash University |
This Centre researches and trains on how to combine technology and evidence to improve health service delivery. They promote partnerships between stakeholders in doing this. One such project helped to improve Sothern Health mental health service prioritisation of service delivery. |
| Monash University |
http://www.monash.edu.au |
Monash University |
Monash University is in based in Melbourne, Australia, but has many other campuses around the world. It conducts respected, national and internationally competitive research into many areas, including epidemiology, public health, schizophrenia, depression, evidence based practice and health services and adult education. Some of its research Centres involved in this are:
The Centre for Work and Learning Studies (see link) The Centre for Developmental Disability Health (see link) The Centre for Developmental Psychiatry and Psychology (see link) The Centre for Health Services Operations Management (see link) and the Monash Institute of Health Services Research (see link) |
| SARNet |
http://som.flinders.edu.au/FUSA/GP-Evidence/SARNet/default.htm |
Flinders University Primary Health Care Research, Evaluation and Development Program |
SARNet is a multidisciplinary network designed to enhance research and evaluation capacity in primary health care in South Australia and the Greater Green Triangle Region of Victoria. It is free to join and invites membership from all PHC professionals, registrars, students and consumer groups interested in research and evaluation. It provides training and support in research and evaluations skills, financial support (individual research bursaries and for writing grants). The website has a researcher discussion forum where a recent theme was consumers in research. |
| The Iowa Consortium for Mental Health |
http://www.medicine.uiowa.edu/icmh/ |
The Iowa Consortium for Mental Health |
The Iowa Consortium for Mental Health conducts and supports mental health services research focusing on the occurrence, recognition, and treatment of serious mental illness in community-based settings. The study of mental health service delivery to persons who live in rural areas is of special interest. Projects that promote interdisciplinary and interagency collaboration are encouraged. The website contains many useful documents about evidence based practices, recovery, medications etc. |
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Other - Non-Government Organisations
| Title | URL | Organisation | Summary |
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| Communications Law Centre |
http://www.comslaw.org.au |
Communications Law Centre |
An Australian independent, non-profit, public interest organisation that researches and teaches on legal issues in media and online communications with the aim of creating a more infomed community. |
| Community Life |
http://www.community-life.org.au |
Community Life |
Part of Australian national suicide prevention strategy; aims to support community groups to develop suicide prevention programs. |
| depressioNet |
http://www.depressionservices.org.au |
depressioNet |
Online resource for Australian’s living with depression including information about symptoms and treatment, lists of regional support services and events. Established and maintained by people with personal experiences with depression. |
| Job Accommodation Network |
http://www.jan.wvu.edu/media/ideas.html |
Job Accommodation Network |
A United States of America based site with information on how to accommodate people with disabilities in the work place. Incudes information about various mental disorders but is not all inclusive. |
| MyDr |
http://www.mydr.com.au/About.asp |
MIMS Consumer Health Group of MediMedia |
An Australian health care web site offering high quality health information and medication information to consumers, including information about mental health disorders. |
| National Rural Health Alliance |
http://www.ruralhealth.org.au/nrhapublic/ |
National Rural Health Alliance |
General health information including mental health information and resources for remote Australian communities. |
| Reach Out ! |
http://www.reachout.com.au |
Reach Out ! |
A web-based service for young people that aims to inspire them to help themselves when times are tough. It provides information referrals, and factsheets on various mental disorders and topics of concern such as becoming sexually active, loss and grief, drugs and eating disorders, school and university and more. |
| The Queensland Alliance |
http://www.qldalliance.org.au |
The Queensland Alliance |
The peak Queensland (Australia) body representing consumer, carer and non-government service providers and groups who serve the needs of people suffering from a mental illness or psychiatric disability organisations and groups representing them. |
| World Health Organisation – Mental Health |
http://www.who.int/mental_health/en/ |
World Health Organisation |
The World Health Organisation is the United Nations specialized agency for health. It’s objective is attainment by all peoples of the highest possible level of health. The WHO constitution describes health as a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being. This web-site provides statistics on mental-health world-wide, the objectives and programmes of WHO. |
| Ybblue |
http://ybblue.com.au |
beyondblue: the national depression initiative |
An Australian community awareness campaign aiming to reduce the stigma associated with depression in young people and encourage help seeking behaviour by family and friends. Information is provided on early warning signs, how to communicate and where to find help. |
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Other - Grant Bodies
| Title | URL | Organisation | Summary |
|---|
| Australian Research Council (ARC) |
http://www.arc.gov.au/arc_home/default.htm |
Australian Research Council (ARC) |
An independent grant and advisory body in Australia. It advices government on reserach directions and oportunities. It funds high quality research and helps foster partnerships between research, industry, government and community organsiations. |
| National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) |
http://www.health.gov.au/nhmrc/ |
National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) |
The NHMRC is a national grant body in Australia that awards grants for reserach across the full spectrum of health and medical science. Grants are awarded based on peer-review of scientific quality. The NHMRC in partnership with the Consumers Health Forum of Australia produced the Statement on Participation, which mandates the need for partnerships between consumers and non-consumer academics in research. |
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Other - Professional Colleges
| Title | URL | Organisation | Summary |
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| Australian Divisions of General Practice |
http://www.adgp.com.au |
Australian Divisions of General Practice |
Peak national body representing over 120 Divisions of General Practice around Australia. It manages many national programs aiming to improve the health and well-being of Australians including the National Primary Mental Health Care Initiative. This program aims to support GPs inproviding quality mental health care. Programs are overseen by committees that include consumer representatives. |
| Australian Psychological Associ |
http://www.psychsociety.com.au |
Australian Psychological Associ |
Proffessional association for psychologists in Australia. The APS aims to promote high quality psychological practice, and to foster learning and growth through setting high standards of professional education and conduct. It supports psychologists via professional development, ethical advice, advocacy and buisiness advice. |
| The Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists |
http://www.ranzcp.org/publicarea/public.asp |
The Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists |
RANZCP is the principal body representing psychiatry in Australasia. The website contains information about psychiatry in Australia and New Zealand (including their code of ethics), the journals published by the College (Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry and Australasian Psychiatry) and information about mental health. |
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Other - Government Departments
| Title | URL | Organisation | Summary |
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| Ageing Research Online |
http://www.aro.gov.au |
Australian Government Department of Health and Aging |
Provides information on ageing relevant policy, research initiatives, research funding, and courses. Provides online discussion forum for issues and events in aging research around Australia. |
| Australian Government Department of Health and Aging |
http://www.health.gov.au |
Australian Government Department of Health and Aging |
Australian National Government site providing information on policy initiatives in health and aging. |
| Australian Institute of Family Studies |
http://www.aifs.org.au |
Australian Government |
Researches factors effecting family functioning and well-being. Identifys emerging family policy and research issues. Disseminates information to all stakeholders. Web site contains publications of project reports, discussion forums on family issues and an online library catalogue of relevant articles that contains links to some full text articles. Partnership with stakeholders a stated priority in all its work. |
| Australian Institute of Health And Welfare (AIHW) |
http://www.aihw.gov.au |
Australian Government |
National agency for statistics on Australia's health and welfare. Online publications about patterns and statistics of health and illness, health service use, welfare, children and family, aged care, crisis accomodateion, support, disability services use, etc. Contains some interactive data - data sets you can save to your own file and analyze yourself.. |
| Commonwealth Department of Family and Community Services (FaCS) |
http://www.facs.gov.au |
Australian Government |
FaCS is responsible for many projects and services for families including, income security, housing suport, welfare, and childcare. It researches how best to deliver these services. The website contains Australian government policy documents, papers, budget reports and research framework and outcome reports. A newsroom of media releases and speaches from FaCS. |
| Mental Health and Wellbeing |
http://www.mentalhealth.gov.au |
Australian Government Department of Health and Aging |
Australian Government department site, contains mental health information for consumers, carers, families, education, the media and the health care sector. Crisis and support contacts. National policy and strategy documents on mental health. |
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