headspace Werribee

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headspace Werribee offers a range of free health and wellbeing services for young people between 12-25.

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This page is for info only and can't offer support or emergency assistance. If you need immediate help contact Lifeline 13 11 14 or Kids Helpline 1800 551 800

Looking for someone to talk to? If you're 12-25, you can get free health advice, support and information from headspace Werribee.

Would you like to talk with someone about:

•feeling depressed or anxious?
•feeling like you are not coping?
•finding solutions to issues that are concerning you?
•not sleeping well or sleeping too much?...
•finding it hard to concentrate or make decisions?
•changes in your appetite or energy levels?
•feeling alone or no-one understands you?
•concerns with your drinking or drug use?
•concerns about relationships?
•education and training?
•feeling that you don't understand what is happening to you?
•being bullied, hurt or sexually harassed?
•having difficulty finding a job or where you are living?
•concerns about family members' mental health?

Our primary focus is the mental health and wellbeing of all Australians. We know that getting help early is the key to resolving these problems quickly. headspace is making a difference where it is needed most - our young people.

TERMS OF USE:

This headspace Werribee Facebook page is for people to find out more about headspace Werribee, the services we offer, as well as discussion about important mental health and youth issues. Please be respectful of all points of view, and refrain from personal attacks on other users.

headspace Werribee will remove any posts which:
- are likely to be offensive to other readers
- discusses methods of suicide or self-harm
- discussed drug usage in an unbalanced way, e.g. omit the negative effects
- contains unhelpful advice, such as blaming a person for their depression
- is dogmatic, such as setting out courses of action as “the only way”
- is racist, sexist or discriminatory
- is obscene, or uses graphic sexual language
- is defamatory, or overly critical of services or organisations which provide help to others
- for any other reason is likely to cause harm / distress to other young people reading the story
- are posted for commercial purposes, and
- promote inaccurate, inappropriate or harmful health advice.

headspace Werribee will remove posts promoting organisations, products, services, events, competitions or information that is not relevant to the post. If you think your organisation, product, service, event or competition may be relevant to the headspace Werribee community, please drop us an email with information and we'll be in touch.

In certain circumstances, if a post raises concerns about your safety, we may try to contact you to check that you and/or others are safe. If there are significant concerns, we may need to pass on your contact information to authorities who can help protect you and/or others, such as a crisis service or the police. Our preferred way to do this would be to support you to seek help.

We are obliged to try to protect you and/or others if the information you submit tells us that:
- you are being seriously hurt by someone else
- you are thinking of seriously harming yourself, and
- someone else is being, is likely to be, seriously hurt by you or another person.

Please note headspace Werribee recognises that sometimes people need immediate help and support. The headspace Werribee Facebook page cannot provide you with specific counselling, crisis services or support. If you need immediate assistance please call Kids
Helpline on 1800 55 1800 or Lifeline on 13 11 14.

headspace Werribee does not check the page over the weekend or on public holidays.

headspace Werribee can take no responsibility for comments on our Facebook.