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1800RESPECT Specialist Organisations
- Telstra Health delivers 1800RESPECT working with other specialist organisations
- Our specialist organisations provide specialist counselling services for the 1800RESPECT national service
- Read more about our specialist organisations, and please visit their websites.
Lifeline
For over 60 years, Lifeline has been connecting with Australians in need through crisis support and suicide prevention services, operating the 13 11 14 telephone line around the nation as well as a 24/7 crisis text (0477 13 11 14), webchat service and Support Toolkit. The organisation responds to over one million requests for support each year, creating an average of 120 safety plans to keep a person experiencing suicidal ideation safe every day.
Lifeline also provides face-to-face community services through many of its 43 centres across Australia.
Marninwarntikura Women’s Resource Centre
Marninwarntikura Women's Resource Centre (MWRC) is an Aboriginal Community Controlled Organisation that was established as a support for women, children, and families living in the Fitzroy Valley Region of the Kimberley, WA. All work undertaken and programs or services provided by Marninwarntikura Women’s Resource Centre is based around breaking the cycle of intergenerational and childhood trauma, creating opportunities for all in society to have a good life well lived.
Services provided through Marninwarntikura Women’s Resource Centre include:
- Early Childhood Learning and Child and Parents Connection programs
- Community-led research and support services for young people
- Awareness raising and education for families on neurodiversity, including Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder
- Legal and therapeutic support for people impacted by domestic, family, and sexual violence
- A Women’s Shelter Crisis accommodation
- Art Studio and Social Enterprise ventures.
- Marninwarntikura Women’s Resource Centre provide activities, mentoring, support, access to culturally sensitive and responsive services, and advocacy for Aboriginal families in the Fitzroy Valley, and are now extending this support through the provision of specialist counselling under 1800RESPECT.
54 Reasons (part of the Save the Children Australia Group)
54 reasons is Australia’s leading child rights organisation. Proudly part of Save the Children globally and offering services in every state and territory, it exists to ensure all children’s rights are met so they can thrive – in all their diversity, creativity and curiosity. It advocates with and provide direct support to children and their caregivers, so that they experience and enjoy safety, learning, belonging and agency.
