resources

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24 hour supports

• In an emergency, call 000
• Lifeline: 13 11 14
• Kids Help Line: 1800 55 1800
• Mental Health Emergency Response Line (MHERL)
• National sexual assault, family and domestic violence counselling line: 1800 737 732
• Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service (CAMHS) Crisis Connect: 1800 048 636
• Suicide Call Back Service: 1300 659 467

ADHD

• AADPA Australian Evidence-Based Clinical Practice Guideline For Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)
• AADPA summary of recommendations
• AADPA Factsheets
• ADHD WA
• Dr. Russel Barkley factsheets
• Medication log/ symptom tracker
• Medication management app
• Reflect Health ADHD resources
• Youtube video: Australian Psychiatrist Dr Dianne Grocott on how to Understand, Manage and Delight in the Busy Brain. 
• YouTube videos of Clinical Psychologist Dr Thomas E. Brown

Aged Care

• Apply for an assessment
• City of Stirling Care Finder
• GEAT2GO for equipment and technology 
• My Aged Care
• My Aged Care Information booklets
• Short Term Care

Allergies

• Australasian Society of Clinical Immunology and Allergy
• The National Asthma Council Australia
• Sensitive Choice

Autism Spectrum Disorder

• Autism CRC
• DDWA Autism Parents Handbook
• Autism Connect - National autism helpline
• National Guideline for the assessment and diagnosis of autism in Australia
• NeuroWild
• Please see section below on Pathological Demand Avoidance
• WA Public Autism Assessors Directory

Boundaries

• Becoming Boundaried

Child Development 

• Child Development Service - "The metropolitan Child Development Service provides a range of assessment, early intervention and treatment services to children with developmental delay or difficulty that impact on function, participation and/or parent-child relationship".

Culturally and Linguistically Diverse (CALD)

• Health Translations
• MyAus App - "Your guide to setting up your life in Australia, in your language".
• TIS National - Translating and Interpreting Service

Disability Employment Service

• BizLink

Domestic abuse

• Centre for Women's Safety and Wellbeing - directory. There is a section on "Information for women with disability"
• Naala Djookan Healing Centre (City of Stirling)
• National sexual assault, family and domestic violence counselling line: 1800 RESPECT
• Relationships Australia, Western Australia
• Western Australian Family and Domestic Violence - The Common Risk Assessment and Risk Management Framework (CRARMF)  Forms of abuse (pg 59-61), Wheel of Power and Control (pg 62), Indicators (pg 64), Tactics (pg 65-66), Risk Factors (pg 72-75), Screening tool (pg 88-94), Safety Planning (pages 108-114). 
• White Ribbon Australia

Driving/ transport

• ACROD parking permit applications
• MACA Hub - Safe transport for children with disabilities

Eating

• Dietitians Australia - Find a Dietitian
• Parent/Caregiver Workshop - When Children Won't Eat (and how to help!)
• Pediatric feeding disorder (PFD) and avoidant/restrictive food intake disorder (ARFID)

Ergonomics

• Ergolink

Equipment and assistive technology

• AC Mobility
• AssistKids Equipment Library through Ability WA
• Australian Rehabilitation & Assistive Technology Association (ARATA)
• Australian Mobility Equipment
• Motum

Finances/ money

• Centrelink - Speak with a social worker
• Centrelink - Getting support if you're caring for someone
• Centrelink - Payments for carers
• Centrelink Carer Payment – Medical Report  (form SA427).
• Centrelink Carers Allowance - applications (form SA426 or SA332a)
• Companion Card WA
• Financial Wellbeing Collective
• The Hardship Utility Grant Scheme (HUGS)
• National Debt Hotline - free financial counselling
• School Student Broadband Initiative
• The Spiers Centre
• Vinnies - financial counselling
• WA Rent Relief Program

Food assistance/ aid

• Food bank
• The Pantry

Grants

• Steve Waugh Foundation - Rare Disease Grants
• Telethon7 
• Variety WA

Hospital

• Perth Children's Hospital - Keeping Kids in No Distress (KKIND) - "...aims to help children cope with medical trauma, anxiety and distress caused by illness, injury or hospitalisation."
• Ronald McDonald Learning Program - tutoring "for students whose education is disrupted due to a medical illness or injury".

Legal

• Circle Green Community Legal
• Legal Aid WA
• Legal guardianship: https://www.wa.gov.au/service/justice/civil-law/become-guardian-or-administrator-person-disabilities
• Legal guardianship: https://pwdwa.org/how-we-help/guardianship/
• Sussex Street Community Law Service - Individual Disability Advocacy Service (IDAS) - NDIS appeals advocate

Mental Health

• Amber Youth Wellness Program
• Carer Gateway
• Carers WA
• Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service (CAMHS) Crisis Connect: 1800 048 636
• The Grief Centre of Western Australia
• Griefline - grief and loss
• Headspace
• Head to Health - free/ low-cost mental health services
• Helping Minds
• Lifeline: 13 11 14
• Lifeline: Suicide Safety Plan
• Luma - women's health and wellbeing services
• Mental Health and Medicare (website)
• Mental Health Emergency Response Line (MHERL)
• North Metro - community adult mental health services
•  Solace WA - grief
• Suicide Call Back Service
• QLife - LGBTQIA+ phone and web support

NDIS

• Changes to NDIS funded supports
• Changes to NDIS legislation
• Complex Support Needs planning teams - "...the Complex Support Needs pathway will have dedicated NDIA Complex Support Needs planning teams and a network of specialised planners with strong experience in high level coordination and/or allied health experience."
• How to apply
• If you have a complaint about the NDIS/ NDIA, email: complaints@ndis.gov.au
• Local Area Coordinator (finder): Perth: 0-7 year olds Wanlsea, 7+ year olds Mission Australia or APM
• National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS)
• NDIS Act 2013
• What does the NDIS fund? NDIS supports lists

Pathological Demand Avoidance

• Book, "Can't Not Won't: a story about a child who couldn't go to school" by Eliza Fricker
• Book, “'I Can't go to School!': The School Non-Attender's Workbook” by Suzy Rowland  
• Book, “The Teacher's Introduction to Pathological Demand Avoidance" by Clare Truman
• Eliza Fricker - missing the mark (Instagram) 
• Kristy Forbes
• PDA Perth WA Parents Community and Support Page (Facebook) 
• PDA Society
• PDA Society - PANDA "Helpful approaches for a PDA profile of autism"
• Square Peg Round Whole
• The Kidd Clinic PDA resources 
• The 5-Point Scale and Anxiety Curve Poster

Psychology

• Australian Association of Psychologists Inc - Find a Psychologist
• Australian Association of Psychologists Inc - Handout - NDIS and Mental Health Care Plans in Psychology Services

School, education

• Accountability for Children in Education Western Australia - ACE WA 
• AllPlay Learn - "helps to create inclusive education environments".
• Alternatives to full-time schooling
• DDWA Self-Advocacy Guide for Parents and Carers in the WA Education System
• Enquiry into support for autistic children and young people in schools 
• IDEA - "IDEA offers portfolio-based vocational education to young creatives, innovators and entrepreneurs. We are an academy for senior secondary aged students (Year 10 – 12 alternative) and school leavers (17 – 24 years). We arrange pathways to university, training and employment and support business startups, driven by your individual interests."
• The Lyn Beazley Academy (read more here)
• School advocacy 
• School of Alternative Learning Settings (SALS)
• School Curriculum and Standards Authority (SCSA) - Application for Equitable Access Adjustments
• School of Isolated and Distance Education (SIDE). Students in Perth who are not able to go to school in person may be able to enrol for distance (online) education.
• School of Special Educational Needs: Disability (SSEND)
• School of Special Educational Needs: Sensory (SSENS)
• SCSA AbleWA - Abilities Based Learning Education (curriculum)
• Square Peg Round Whole
• Square Peg Round Whole WA parents Facebook group 
• TAFE  - Accessibility and learning support (for students with disability, mental health and medical conditions)

Sex and relationships

• SECCA Sexuality, Education, Counselling and Consultancy Agency

Service finders

*Note: some of these websites receive funding from providers to be listed on them.

• *Karista
• My Community Directory
• *Perth Kids Hub
• WA Connect
• WA Family Support Network - family support services - helps connect you with services.

Specific Learning Disorders (SLD) 

I.e. Dyslexia (reading), Dysgraphia (writing), Dyscalculia (numeracy). 

• Dyslexia SPELD Foundation (DSF)
• A SLD does not require 6 months of intervention prior to diagnosis.

Sports

• Autism Swim 
• KidsSport grants - up to $500 per financial year for WA children aged 5 to 18 with a valid Health Care Card or Pensioner Concession Card.
• Ocean Heroes - surfing the spectrum
• WA Disabled Sports Association (WADSA)

Support services

• Advocacy - Contact your local Member for Parliament
• Advocacy - Developmental Disabilities WA
• Advocacy - Midlas
• Crisis Care
• Communicare
• Department of Social Services
• Every Australian Counts - advocacy
• Equal Opportunity Commission (WA)
• People With Disabilities Australia - advocacy
• People With Disabilities WA
• Salvation Army
• Support services and helplines for parents of babies
• Trinity North Community Care
• Uniting WA
• WA Child Protection

Toileting

• Changing Places "Changing Places toilets are larger than standard accessible toilets which provide people with disability and high support needs access to suitable, safe, and private bathroom facilities."
• National Continence Helpline
• National Public Toilet map