Counselling & Mental Health
Crisis Support Services
(03) 8371 2800
Footscray
VIC, 3011
Crisis Support Services
CSS is Australia's oldest telephone counselling service provider with over 45 years of experience in providing professional telephone counselling services to a range of high need community groups.
The CSS Vision, purpose and values encapsulate the fundamental elements that underpin the organisation's philosophy.
Our mission: A community where all people are heard and helped in their time of need.
Our purpose: Support people to manage crisis and develop resilience by providing specialist, professional service; 24/7 counselling; consultancy; training; research.
Our values: We seek to empower by: listening with understanding; exploring with open minds; responding with respect; relating with compassion; acting with integrity.
CSS employs qualified professional counsellors to deliver consistently high quality services and is the only counselling organisation in Australia to have gained international accreditation for its services. CSS receives almost 120,000 calls each year from Australians seeking support.
CSS has developed, through its telephone counselling services and research, a unique perspective and expertise in the areas of suicide prevention, mental illness, family and relationships, men's wellbeing and family violence. It also works, in partnership with the business and corporate community, to help people to build awareness and resilience through a range of specialised workplace training programs.
Mensline Australia 1300 78 99 78, Suicide Line Victoria 1300 651 251 Beyondblue information line 1300 22 ...read more
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Everyone has heard of Beyond Blue which was highlighted by having Jeff "Jetson" Kennett as its patron for some time, but there are also other crisis lines that one would like to know about - these crisis lines include "Lifeline" and "Bush Crisis Line which is for farmers and rural people who are feeling low, dpepressed or suicidal, maybe as a result of drought, or financial difficulties related to the drought.Just enquire at your local community health centre, or with your GP for information on Crisis Lines in your area, or go on line and check with the yellow pages or enter "Crisis Lines Australia" in the Google search engine.
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