Parent and carer support groups and disability advocacy groups

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• DSS Disability Advocacy Finder (this tool helps you find a list of available advocacy organisations, based on your postcode)
• Disability Advocacy Finder Quick Guide

Links to disability support and advocacy organisations

Victorian Govt: Carer Gateway

Better Health Channel -Disability Services and Support

Parent and Carer Organisations

• Association for Children with a Disability
• Carers Australia
• Carers Victoria
• Children and Young People with a Disability Australia
• Early Childhood Early Intervention Australia
• Endeavour Foundation
• Ethnic Communities Council of Victoria
• Everything Carers
• My Care Space
• MyTime
• OzChild
• Parenting Research Centre
• Raising Children
• Source Kids
• Young Carers Network
• Zest Care -Vulnerable Children’s Program

Supports for siblings and young people

• LiveWire
• Siblings Australia

Supports for families where the parent has a disability or mental illness

• Australian Institute of Family Studies: Parents with Disabilities
• The Bouverie Centre
• Children of parents with a mental illness (COPMI)
• COPMI Resources Library
• DHHS FaPMI Program Guidelines
• Eastern Health
• Latrobe regional hospital
• PregnancyBirth Baby: Parenting with a disability
• Young Carers Network

Autism

• Amaze – Victorian Autistic Children and Adult’s Association
• Aspergers Victoria
• Australian Federation of Disability Organisations
• Autism Awareness Australia
• Autism Abilities
• Autism Society
• Autism Spectrum Australia
• Mansfield Autism Statewide Services

Disability Advocacy

• Action on Disability within Ethnic Communities (ADEC)
• Action for More Independence & Dignity in Accommodation
• AED Legal Centre
• Breakthru
• Disability Advocacy Resource Unit (DARU)
• Disability Justice Australia
• Disability Resource Centre
• Disability Services Commissioner
• Gippsland Disability Advocacy
• Grampians Disability Advocacy
• In Charge
• Leadership Plus
• Melbourne East Disability Advocacy
• National Disability Advocacy Program
• People with Disability Australia
• Providence Health (Mornington Area)
• Regional Disability Advocacy Service
• Rights Information & Advocacy Centre (RIAC)
• Southwest Advocacy Organisation
• VALID
• Villamanta Disability Rights Legal Service
• Women with Disabilities Victoria
• Youth Disability Advocacy Service
  

Mental Health

• Beyond Blue
• Bipolar Australia
• Chess Connect
• Community Mental Health Australia
• Mental Illness Fellowship of Australia
• Mental Health Australia
• Reimagine Today
• Sane Australia
• Scope Australia
• The Summer Foundation
• Synapse
• Tandem
• Victorian Mental Illness Awareness Council

Other

• Blind Citizens Australia
• Breakthru
• Brotherhood of St Laurence (planning, various services)
• Cerebral Palsy League
• Disability Services Consulting (provider support)
• Down Syndrome Victoria
• Epilepsy Australia
• Epilepsy Foundation
• Expression Australia (deafness support)
• Fragile X Association of Australia
• Independent Disability Services (support workers, housing)
• MS Australia
• The Tipping Foundation
• Yooralla