Description
The Victorian Mental Illness Awareness Council (VMIAC) provides a wide range of services related tomental health, emotional issues and mental illness. In addition to its work with individuals and families,it also offers: individual, group and sector advocacy; research; and education and training aboutmental illness and its effects.
Services provided
- Information
- Support
- Advocacy (individual and group)
- Education
- Research
Eligibility
Any person who has experienced mental health or emotional issues can use the VMIAC advocacy service.
How to access
Call (03) 9380 3900.
The National Relay Service is available to help callers who are d/Deaf, or find it hard to hear or speak to hearing people on the phone.
The Translating and Interpreting Service (TIS is available (24 hours, 7 days) for callers who speak other languages. Call 131 450.
Visit Victorian Mental Illness Awareness
Address: Building 1, 22 Aintree Street, Brunswick East, 3057.
Costs
VMIAC provides a free service.
Calls are charged at the cost of a local call from anywhere in Victoria.
Calls from mobile phones may be charged at a higher rate.
Website
VMIACTip
Resources sometimes constrain VMIAC’s ability to offer full advocacy services.
Important
- VMIAC can provide information about psychiatrists who might be willing to bulk-bill some patients.
- You can join VMIAC as an individual, group or associate member.
- Membership is available to anyone who has experienced mental illness or emotional issues and to groups of people who have lived through mental illness.