ACON local regional community info guides
These community information guides are designed to be shared online and printed.
LGBTQ+
24/7 services
24/7 service
ACON
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander
Alcohol and other drugs
Apps
Bereavement
Community groups
Culturally diverse backgrounds
Disability
Doctor referral required
Housing
LGBTQ+
Legal
Mental health
Money and work
Online chat
Peer led
Phone Support
Postvention
Relationships
Sexuality
Supporting someone else
Supporting yourself
Training
Trans and Gender Diverse
Trauma
ACON Pride Training — LGBTQ suicide prevention eLearning for GPs
ACON, with the support of NSW Ministry of Health, is offering a free and essential online module designed to increase General Practitioner's understanding of suicide risk factors for LGBTQ people and boost baseline skills and knowledge around assessing suicide risk, responding to distress and suicidality.
ACON regional services
Our ACON Regional Services map will help you find local sexual health clinics (orange pin), LGBTIQ+ community groups (rainbow pin), Aboriginal community health services (Aboriginal flag pin) and the services offered at each of our ACON offices.
ACON SDFV Support Service
ACON’s SDFV Support Service provides free and confidential counselling and care coordination for LGBTQ+ people experiencing sexual, domestic, and family violence.
ACON Support services
ACON offers a range of free and affordable counselling services for LGBTQ+ adults in NSW. Services include suicide aftercare and crisis counselling and peer support, Pride Counselling, care coordination, HIV and LGBTQ+ counselling, substance support and home-based care.
ACON’s Pride in Health + Wellbeing
Pride in Health + Wellbeing is a national membership program that provides year-round personalised support to organisations within the Health, Wellbeing and Humans services sector to improve their LGBTQ inclusive care, remove systematic barriers to accessing care and thereby reduce health disparities faced by LGBTQ communities.
ACON’s Pride in Diversity
Pride in Diversity is the national not-for-profit employer support program for LGBTQ workplace inclusion specialising in HR, organisational change and workplace diversity.
Charlee
Charlee is a digital suicide prevention hub created by the LGBTQ+ community. It takes a no wrong door approach and seeks to create a safer space designed by LGBTIQA+ peers, to connect other peers and supporters to resources that better reflect and address the experiences often faced by our communities.
DISCHARGED
Alt2Su peer support group for trans and gender diverse people.
Forcibly Displaced People Network
Forcibly Displaced People Network (FDPN) is the first registered LGBTIQ+ refugee-led organisation in Australia. FDPN works to support LGBTIQ+ people seeking asylum, refugees and migrants from non-Western countries to be safe in Australia.
Gender Centre
Services and support for the trans and gender diverse community including accommodation support, groups, case management, education and training, counselling and mental health support.
Inner City Legal Centre LGBTIQ Legal Aid NSW
Legal aid for LGBTQ+ people in NSW.
LGBTIQA+ suicide bereavement groups — Charlee
Free, 8 session, small bereavement groups open to people in NSW and VIC bereaved by suicide in the last 3 to 24 months. Groups are free to attend. Participants do not need to have a Medicare card or mental health care plan.
LGBTQ Sports Club Directory
Pride in Sport's directory to LGBTQ sport clubs in NSW and around Australia.
LGBTQIA+ Mental Health Carers
Resources and information for LGBTQIA+ mental health carers.
QLife
QLife is a non-crisis national LGBTQ+ peer run service offering support and referral for people wanting to talk about sexuality, identity, gender, bodies, feelings or relationships.
QLife phone and chat can have a wait time of 30 minutes.
Phone calls are limited to 25 minutes and web chat is limited to 35 minutes.
You will speak to a LGBTQ+ peer who can offer you support and referral.
You can remain anonymous.
Click here for some ideas on how to care for yourself as you wait.
QRASP (Vic)
QRASP is a growing community of LGBTQI+ refugees and people seeking asylum, a peer led social support group that meets regularly for activities, excursions, workshops and trainings, referrals, connections, networking, and emotional and practical support.
Rainbow Cultures Directory
Directory of LGBTQ+ multicultural community groups and services.
Rainbow Families
Rainbow Families works to reduce discrimination and disadvantage faced by children of LGBTQ+ parents and is a support network for parents and carers, as well as future parents and carers.
Rainbow Sexual, Domestic and Family Violence Helpline
24/7 phone support for the LGBTIQ+ people impacted by sexual domestic and/or family violence.
Roses in the Ocean
LGBTQ+ resources for suicide prevention.
Safe Relationships Project
The Safe Relationships Project can assist clients in accessing legal representation and to apply for Apprehended Domestic Violence Orders (ADVO) or Apprehended Personal Violence Orders (APVO) to help put an end to the violence they are experiencing.
Say it Out Loud
Website for LGBTQ+ people encouraging communities to have healthy relationships, get help for unhealthy relationships and support their friends.
This website features a ‘Quick Exit’ button
SQuAD (Sydney Queer and Disability community group)
Social support group for trans and gender diverse people living with disability.
Suicide prevention training — Twenty10 Community Connector
Twenty10’s Community Connector Suicide Prevention program provides training and support for organisations and community groups to identify, intervene and connect to support someone who is thinking about suicide, and help build suicide-safer communities.
The Suicide Response Project
The Suicide Response Project was co-designed with autistic and LGBTIQA+ people with lived experience of suicide ideation.
Transcend
Parent led, national peer support network and community for parents and carers supporting their Trans, Gender Diverse and Non-Binary (TGDNB) child in Australia.
TransHub
TransHub provides information and resources for the trans and gender diverse community.
Twenty10
Providing a broad range of specialised services for young people 12-25 including housing, mental health, counselling and social support.
Western Sydney Inclusive Community Networks
Helping LGBTQ people and people with HIV in Western Sydney take control of their health by providing a range of local services and supporting a variety of local community groups.
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