Non-legal Service Providers
Housing service providers
Salvation Army Social Housing Service Eastcare
Servicing Boroondara, Manningham, Monash, Inner East
31-33 Ellingworth Pde
BOX HILL 3128
Telephone: (03) 9890 7144 or
16 Church St
HAWTHORN 3122
Telephone: (03) 9851 7800 or
Toll free: 1800 444 114
Homeground
Servicing Yarra, Inner Metro
68 Oxford St
COLLINGWOOD 3066
Telephone: (03) 9417 2500
MetroWest Housing Services Ltd
Servicing Melbourne, Moonee Valley, Hobson's Bay, Maribyrnong, Wyndham, Central West
218 Nicholson St
FOOTSCRAY 3011
Telephone: (03) 9689 2777 or
Telephone: (03) 9689 9459
WAYSS Ltd
Servicing Greater Dandenong, Frankston, Casey Cardinia, Mornington Peninsula, Outer South
294 - 300 Thomas St
DANDENONG 3175
Telephone: (03) 9791 6111
St Kilda Crisis Contact Centre
10:00 am to 12 midnight, seven days a week.
29 Grey Street, St Kilda
Telephone: (03) 9536 7777
Toll free for country Victoria: 1800 627 727
Mental health providers
Court Liason Service
Note: Provides psychiatric assessment, advice and reports for people referred by magistrates. For a client with ‘special circumstances’ seeking the revocation of unpaid fines, a referral to the Service is also available through the Enforcement Review Coordinator, Kimberley Owens, on 9628 7902.
Melbourne Magistrates’ Court
Level 4, 233 William Street
Melbourne VIC 3000
Phone: (03) 9602 3293
Fax: (03) 9602 3251
Doutta Galla Community Health
Kensington Centre
12 Gower Street
Kensington VIC 3031
Phone: (03) 8378 1666
Fax: (03) 9372 1558
Homeless Outreach Services
Note: Homeless outreach psychiatric services (HOPS) provide a specialist clinical and treatment response for people who do not engage readily with mental health services. HOPS work in partnership with homelessness services and use assertive outreach to locate and engage with their clients to create a pathway out of homelessness by providing early and appropriate treatment. HOPS link clients into the mental health service system, including access to long-term housing augmented with outreach support, and improve the coordination and working relationships between mental health and homelessness services. HOPS also provide assessment and secondary consultation to homelessness services and other mental health workers.
Inner South Homeless Outreach Psychiatric Service (HOPS)
2 – 12 St Kilda Road
St Kilda VIC 3182
Phone: (03) 8517 9888
Fax: (03) 8517 9854
Moreland Community Health Service
Brunswick Centre
11 Glenlyon Rd
Brunswick VIC 3056
Phone: (03) 9380 4297
South Melbourne Community Health Centre
341 Coventry Street
South Melbourne VIC 3205
Phone: (03) 9690 9144
Hours: Tues 4:30pm – 9:00pm; Wed 9:30am – 9:00pm
Contact Person: Jenny Lee
Note: Jenny Lee is available all day on Wednesdays and has experience assisting clients with mental health issues.
Drug and Alcohol support services
Alcoholics Anonymous Victoria
Basement, 15 McKillop Street
Melbourne VIC 3000
Telephone: (03) 9600 4511
Web: www.aa.org.au
Service Provided: Support groups for people with alcohol problems- held at numerous
locations.
Moreland Hall Drug & Alcohol Centre
(part of UnitingCare)
26 Jessie Street
Moreland VIC 3058
Telephone: (03) 9386 2876
Web: www.morelandhall.org
Service Provided: Drug and alcohol detox, counselling etc.
Eligibility: People with drug and alcohol problems and their families.
Next Door
350 Smith St
Collingwood VIC 3066
Telephone: (03) 9417 1299
Web: www.nych.org.au/services/drug.html
Hours: Mon, Tue, Wed and Fri 10,30am-6pm and Thur 12pm-6pm
Service Provided: peer education, nursing support, medical services (including
pharmacotherapies), counselling and legal advice.
South East Alcohol and Drug Service
Level 2, 229 Thomas Street
Dandenong VIC 3175
Telephone: (03) 8792 2330
Web: www.southernhealth.com.au/seads/
Service Provided: counselling, youth specific programs, specialist Cambodian, Laotian and
Vietnamese programs, Aboriginal outreach worker, healthcare, pharmacotherapies, natural
therapies, syringe distribution and retrieval, withdrawal and detoxification.
Turning Point Alcohol and Drug Centre
54-62 Gertrude Street
Fitzroy VIC 3065
Telephone: (03) 8413 8413 (admin) or (03) 8413 8444 (clinical services)
Direct Line (24 hour counselling and information) (03) 9416 1818
Toll free: 1800 888 236 (for country callers)
DACAS (24 hour clinical advisory service)
Telephone: 1800 812 804
Web: www.turningpoint.org.au
Financial counsellors
Consumer Affairs Victoria
121 Exhibition Street
Melbourne 3000
Hours: Monday - Friday 8.30am - 5.00pm xcept public holidays
Helpline: 1300 55 81 81
Web: http://www.consumer.vic.gov.au/
Western Region Financial Counselling service
C/- Anglicare Western
41 Somerville Road
Yarraville 3013
Telephone: (03) 9396 7400
Hours: Mon and Thur 9am–5pm
Service Provided: Free financial counselling service.
Hours: Monday and Thursday 9am-5pm.
Carlton/Fitzroy Financial Counselling Service
22 Pitt Street
Carlton VIC 3053
Telephone: (03) 9349 2562
City of Yarra - Financial and Crisis Counselling Service
Collingwood Town Hall
140 Hoddle Street
Abbotsford VIC 3067
Telephone: (03) 9205 5491
Service Provided: Counselling, emergency relief, food vouchers
Eligibility: individuals, families and groups who live, work or study in the City of Yarra.
Moreland Community Legal Centre
78 Bell Street
Coburg VIC 3058
Telephone: (03) 9350 4555
Services Provided: Legal advice, financial counselling.
Eligibility: Residents, workers or students in Coburg, Brunswick, Pascoe Vale and Fawkner.