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Services for Children and Young Adults

• Australian Children's Contact Services Association Inc "ACCSA is a non-profit association which promotes sound analysis of the role and limitations of supervised parent / child contact ('access', 'visitation') services, provides a network for members and promotes quality in service provision."  
• Camp Quality  - A non-profit organisation that is committed to bringing hope and happiness to children living with cancer, their families and communities through ongoing quality recreational, educational and financial support programs.
• CanTeen the Australian Organisation for Young People Living with Cancer 
• Centrelink   
• Child Safety Commissioner - promoting the safety and wellbeing of children.
• Childhood Cancer Support
• Child Wise, a non profit organisation working to prevent, protect and reduce the sexual abuse and exploitation of children in Australia and overseas. 
• The Domestic Violence & Incest Resource Centre (DVIRC) a statewide service in Victoria, Australia. DVIRC aims to reduce and prevent family violence by providing education to improve service and policy responses, and by assisting people who have experienced abuse. Special sections for teenagers.
• Equal Opportunity Commission Victoria  - can help if you've been discriminated against in employment, education and many other areas. 
• Fitzgerald Foundation - newly established Australian charity to support young brain cancer sufferers. 
  
• Kids Help Line is Australia's only free, confidential and anonymous, 24-hour telephone and online counselling service specifically for young people aged between five and 18.
• Lifeline's Just look is a comprehensive online national database of low cost or free health and community services offered throughout Australia. From training skills programs for young people in Cooma to disability services available in Kalgoorlie, Just look provides details of thousands of services and service providers around the country ready to assist you. Wherever you are in Australia, you can get assistance on the net when you need it - Just look. 
• Lawstuff - Legal info for young people in Australia. Lawstuff is a legal help service for young people under 18. LawMail allows young people from anywhere in Australia to email their legal questions to the National Children's and Youth Law Centre.
  
• MacKillop Family Services provides a wide range of programs for disadvantaged children, young people and families in both Melbourne and Geelong.
  
• Melbourne Citymission The Homelessness service area comprises a range of services for those are homeless or at risk of homelessness. Young people between the ages of 12-25 years can access early intervention, crisis accommodation, material aid, casework, outreach, refuge accommodation and support services while Adult & Family Services and the Supported Adult Accommodation Program (SAPP) are available for adults and families.
  
• National Child Protection Clearinghouse - An information, advisory and research unit focused on the prevention of child abuse and neglect and associated family violence.
  
• Office for Children - focused on the health, safety, development, learning and wellbeing of children, young people and families in Victoria.
  
• Reach Out!  
  
• Teen Challenge Care Ltd - Crisis accommodation for young men between the ages of 18 -25. Drug & Alcohol rehabilitation program for young people between the ages of 18 - 25 although some exceptions to this age limit are considered
• The Source - Government Information for Young People
• White Wreath Association Inc. Action Against Suicide