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🟠 Resource service
🟢 Reporting service
🔴 Crisis/help service
UOW Services
UOW Services
UOW 24/7 Wellbeing Support Line 🔵
1300 036 149 (call)
0488 884 164 (text)
UOW Student Services 🔵 🟠
(02) 4221 3927
UOW Employee Assistance Program 🔵 🟠
1300 361 008
Safe and Respectful Communities (SARC) 🔵 🟠 📞 🖥 📧
(Support for students who have witnessed or experienced sexual assault, harassment, domestic and family violence, bullying or discrimination; Mon to Fri 9am-5pm, 24/7 for emergencies)
(02) 4221 3344
Student Safety Advocacy Society (SSAS) 🟠 🖥 📧
(A student-led society for campus safety, wellbeing and advocacy)
Illawarra Local Services
Illawarra Local Services
Headspace 🔵 🟠 📞 🏠
(Mental health counselling and resources, located in Wollongong, Nowra and other locations)
4220 7660 (Wollongong)
4446 7300 (Nowra)
Illawarra Aboriginal Medical Service 🔵 🟠 📞🏠
(Mon to Fri, 9am-5pm)
(02) 4229 9495
Illawarra Legal Centre 🔵 🟠 📞 📧🏠
(02) 4276 1939
Illawarra Multicultural Services 🔵 🟠 📞🏠
(02) 4229 6855
Illawarra Shoalhaven Suicide Prevention Collaborative 🔵 🟠 📞 📧
1300 069 002
Illawarra Women's Domestic Violence Court Advocacy Service (IWDVCAS) 🔵 🟠 📞 📧🏠
(02) 4229 4604
Illawarra Women's Health Centre 🔵 🟠 📞🖥 📧🏠
(Mon to Fri, 9am-5pm)
(02) 4255 6800
ISLHD Drug & Alcohol 🔵 🟠 📞 🏠
(For services and resources in Wollongong and Nowra)
1300 652 226
National Debt Helpline 🔵 🟠 📞
1800 007 007
Needle and Syringe Service 🔵 🟠 📞
0411 408 726
Service NSW 🔵 🟠 📞
13 77 88
Shoalhaven Legal Centre 🔵 🟠 📞 📧🏠
(Mon-Fri 9am-4pm)
1800 229 529
Strong Yawa 🔵 🟠 📞
(After hours social and emotional wellbeing support for Indigenous people; 5pm-8:30am)
1800 953 736
The Family Advocacy Support Service 🔵 🟠 📞 📧
0411 103 471
Waminda 🔵 🟠 📞 📧🏠
(South Coast Women's Health & Welfare Aboriginal Cooperation, Mon-Fri 9am-4:30pm)
1800 997 330
4421 7400
Wollongong Police Station 🟠 🟢 🔴 📞
(02) 4226 7899
Wollongong Safe Haven 🔵 🟠 📞 🏠
(Safe space for people in suicidal distress operated by peer workers, Wed-Sat 2pm-10pm)
0401 561 164
Wollongong Youth Centre 🔵 🟠 📞
(02) 4227 8222
Women Illawarra 🔵 🟠 📞 📧
(02) 4228 1499
Support Services
Support Services
Brother to Brother 🔵 📞
(24/7 support for Indigenous men struggling with a range of issues, including relationships, family violence, parenting, and drug and alcohol use)
1800 435 799
eHeadspace 🔵 📞 🖥 📧
(Free support and counselling for young people aged 12-25 and their families and friends; 9am-1am)
1800 650 890
eSafety 🔵 🟠 🖥
(Support, resourcing and reporting outlet for online offences, including Image-Based Abuse and online harassment)
FriendLine 🔵 📞 🖥
(Free anonymous support for anyone over 18 who's feeling lonely, needs to reconnect or just wants a chat; 10am-8pm)
1800 424 287
Link2Home Homelessness 🔵 🟠 📞 📧
(24 hours)
1800 152 152
Mental Health Line 🔵 🟠 📞
(24 hours; not an emergency/crisis line)
1800 011 511
MindSpot 🔵 🟠 📞
(Support for people with anxiety, stress and depression; provides online assessment and treatment; Mon to Fri 8am-8pm, Sat 8am-6pm)
1800 614 434
PANDA 🔵 📞
(Support for people affected by anxiety and depression during pregnancy and in the first year of parenthood; Mon to Fri 9am-7:30pm)
1300 726 306
Relationships Australia 🔵 🟠 📞
(After hours support for those who have lost someone to suicide; 24 hours)
1300 364 277
SANE Australia 🔵 📞 🖥 📧
(Support for people affected by complex mental health issues, as well as their friends, family and health professionals; Mon to Fri 10am-10pm)
1800 187 263
She's A Crowd 🟠 🟢 🖥 📧
(An online anonymous mapping tool to report sexual harassment and assault)
StandBy 🔵 🟠 📞
(After hours support for those who have lost someone to suicide; 24 hours)
1300 727 247
Thirrili National Indigenous Postvention Service 🔵 🟠 📞
(After hours support for those who have lost someone to suicide; 24 hours)
1800 805 801
Crisis and Support Hotlines
Crisis and Support Hotlines
EMERGENCY 🟢 🔴 📞
(Call if someone's life is in danger, including suicidal ideations)
000
Beyond Blue 🔵 🟠 🔴 📞 🖥 📧
(24/7 support for depression and anxiety; online messaging and email support also available)
1300 224 636
Blue Knot Foundation 🔵 📞 🖥 📧
(Support for adult survivors of childhood trauma and abuse; 9am-5pm)
1300 657 380
Butterfly Foundation 🔵 📞 🖥 📧
(Support for people with eating disorders and body image related issues; 8am-midnight)
1800 334 673
Kids Helpline 🔵 🟠 🔴 📞 🖥 📧
(24/7 confidential support for people aged 5 to 25)
1800 55 1800
Lifeline 🔵 🔴 📞 🖥
13 11 14
MensLine 🔵 🟠 📞 🖥
(24/7 support for men's mental health, anger management, family violence, addiction, relationships and wellbeing)
1300 789 978
QLife 🔵 📞 🖥
(Support for LGBTQIA+ people; 3pm-midnight)
1800 184 527
Suicide Call Back Service 🔵 🔴 📞
(Support for people considering suicide)
1300 659 467
UOW 24/7 Wellbeing Support Line 🔵 📞 🖥
1300 036 149 (call)
0488 884 164 (text)
13 YARN 🔵 🔴 📞
(24/7 crisis support run by and made for First Nations peoples)
13 92 76
1800RESPECT 🔵 📞 🖥
(24/7 support for sexual, domestic and family violence)
1800 737 732
National Relay Service: 1800 555 677, Translating & Interpreting: 13 14 50
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