AV INfo help team
AV's Info Help Team offers a confidential email-based service to provide support, information and referrals to our members, and our community including people with Aspergers, people who are autistic, people with other similar neurodivergent profiles, as well as their supporters. The range of our information is broad, including but not limited to topics such as:
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Education issues
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Relationships
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Professional support options
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Allied health options
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Assistance to extended families and friends
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Assessment and new diagnosis support
The AV Info Help team are all volunteers with a personal connection to Aspergers and a member of Aspergers Victoria. As peers, they understand many of the situations our community experience, and they have experience, knowledge and access to resources about Aspergers, autism, and other similar neurodivergent profiles which they share with our community.
Our AV Info Help team volunteers have access to ongoing volunteer training and development. However, they are not mental health professionals and cannot provide crisis support. As they are all volunteers, it may take them a few days to respond to your enquiry.
Email our Info Help TeamPlease include your suburb or local government area to assist our team to find local support options for you.
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CRISIS SUPPORT
Aspergers Victoria is an organisation run by peer volunteers and we can share knowledge and lived experience of Aspergers, autism, or other similar neurodivergent profiles as peers, parents, carers, partners, friends, colleagues, or community members.
We are not a crisis support service and we are unable to provide crisis support. We do not operate a telephone support service and our peer volunteers are not mental health professionals.
If you or someone you are supporting is in immediate danger, please call Triple Zero - 000.
If financial hardship has been preventing you from accessing AV programs please consider filling in our Hardship Fund Application or emailing our admin admin@aspergersvic.org.au.
If you feel you (or a loved one or client) is in need of urgent support, please read our Crisis support fact sheet or contact one of the following services for assistance:
131114.
Lifeline is a national charity providing all Australians experiencing a personal crisis with access to 24 hour crisis support and suicide prevention services.
Available 24 hours, 7 days a week.
1300 224 636
Beyond Blue provides information and support to help everyone in Australia achieve their best possible mental health.
Available 24 hours, 7 days a week.
1300 651 251
SuicideLine offers free counselling and support for people at risk of suicide and anyone experiencing mental health issues.
Available 24 hours, 7 days a week.
13 22 89
Parentline is a phone service for parents and carers of children from birth to 18 years old.
They offer confidential and anonymous counselling and support on parenting issues.
Available 8am to midnight, 7 days a week.
1800 55 1800
Kids Helpline is Australia's only free, confidential 24/7 online and phone counselling service for young people aged 5 to 25 years.
Available 24 hours, 7 days a week.
If you feel as though an urgent mental health assessment is needed, you can contact a Crisis Assessment and Treatment (CAT) team in your area.
Please visit the Victorian government's Mental Health Services website and search for your suburb.
For more options please visit the Victorian government's Better Health website.
Disclaimer: The information and resources provided by our Information service team, social media activities and on this website (“Materials”) are of a general nature only and are not intended to be used as a substitute for professional health advice. For a specific health problem, consult your doctor or contact your health professional.
The inclusion of any opinion, organisation, product, service or individual through our services or platforms does not necessarily imply endorsement by Aspergers Victoria.
Material on this website may be updated or amended from time to time. While Aspergers Victoria endeavours to keep the information on this website accurate and up to date, we cannot guarantee that the website contains the latest or most accurate information, products or research. Where we have included materials provided by others, research, individual stories or links to other sites, the views expressed therein are not necessarily those of Aspergers Victoria.
The internet is not a secure medium and communications to and from this website may be intercepted or altered in transit. Aspergers Victoria does not warrant that the website is free from anything which may damage any computer which accesses the website or data on such computer.
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