COPMI (Children of Parents with a Mental Illness) Booklets and Website Resources

Click on the links below to view booklets

How Can I Help My Child - For parents with Mental Health issues

Family Talk - For parents and other family members

Best For Me and My Baby

When Your Parent Has a Mental Illness - older children and young people

It’s About You Too - A guide for children who have a parent with a mental illness (for younger children)

Click on the link to visit the Website

Children of Parents with Mental Illness Website (COPMI National)- for children, young people, parents and service providers

https://www.youngcarersnsw.org.au/

https://raisingchildren.net.au/

https://emergingminds.com.au/

Click to visit the websites below

Emerging Minds Aboriginal Specific Toolkit (Infant & Child Mental website for service providers)

Healing Foundation- Aboriginal specific website

Wellmob

A place for children and young people to learn about Aboriginal Culture, Country & Community. A place to grow my knowledge & be proud

Click on the links below to visit the service website

Family Connect and Support - families with children under 18 years

POPPY Playgroup - Illawarra - supported playgroup for parents with mental health issues and their 0-5 year old children

POPPY Playgroup - Shoalhaven - supported playgroup for parents with mental health issues and their 0-5 year old children

Young Carer’s NSW Online Forum

Carer Gateway - Services for carers, including Young Carers

Kookaburra Kids - online and face to face groups for children and adolescents with family members with mental health issues

Satellite Foundation - online groups for children and young people with family members with mental health issues

Anglicare Family Mental Health Support Service - Including joint groups with COPMI Coordinator for parents and children with a family member with mental health issues

Southern Youth & Family - Child and Family Service

First Floor Program, Salvation Army Wollongong - including joint group with COPMI Coordinator for adolescents with a family member with mental health issues

Parent Line - Phone: 1300 1300 52

Kid’s Helpline

Grand Pacific Health - Perinatal and Early Childhood Program

Click on the Service below to visit the website

Click on the links below to visit the website

COPE- website for parents in the first year

PANDA- information and resources to support individuals and families to recover from perinatal anxiety and depression

Tresillian- information for families with a baby, toddler or pre-schooler

Karitane- information & resources on the unique challenges of parenting to mums and dads with children from birth to 5 years of age

Click on the links below to visit the website

Grand Pacific Health - Perinatal and Early Childhood Program

PANDA’s National Perinatal Mental Health Helpline - 1300 726 306

Tresillian - Services for families with a baby, toddler or pre-schooler

Karitane - Support and education on the unique challenges of parenting to mums and dads with children from birth to 5 years of age

Mums and Kids Matter - offers psychosocial support, parenting skills training and practical living skills support to mothers living with a mental health condition, with children under the age of five

Click on the links below to visit the website

Illawarra Multicultural Services

Multicultural Communities Council of Illawarra

Multicultural Health - Illawarra Shoalhaven Local Health District

SCARF- Refugee Support

Red Cross - Migrant & Refugee settlement services

Illawarra Shoalhaven Local Health District - Health Care Interpreter Service

National Telephone Interpreter Service