Groups

Links to self help, support and social action groups and organisations.

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• Acoustic Neuroma Association of Australasia – www.anaa.org.au
• Action on Disability Within Ethnic Communities – ADEC – www.adec.org.au
• Adult ADHD Melbourne – http://adhdsupport.org.au
• Alternative Law Journal –  www.altlj.org
• Angelman support group – www.angelmansyndrome.org
• Animals Australia – www.animalsaustralia.org
• Anne McDonald Centre (Formerly known as DEAL Communication Centre) – www.annemcdonaldcentre.org.au
• ANTaR – www.antarvictoria.org.au and www.antar.org.au 
• Anti-Slavery Society –  www.childlabor.net
• Anxiety Disorders Association of Victoria – www.adavic.org.au
• Anxiety Recovery Centre Victoria – www.arcvic.com.au
• Aspergers Victoria – https://aspergersvic.org.au
• Association For Children With A Disability – www.acd.org.au
• Association of Relinquishing Mothers (ARMS) – www.armsvic.org.au
• Asthma Victoria – www.asthma.org.au
• Aussie Hands Foundation – www.aussiehands.org
• ausEE (support for EGID or EoE) – www.ausee.org
• Asylum Seeker Resource Centre – www.asrc.org.au
• Australian Breastfeeding Association – www.breastfeeding.asn.au
• Australian Chemical Trauma Alliance – www.ozemail.com.au/~actall
• Australian Community Gardens Network – communitygarden.org.au 
• Australian Conservation Foundation – www.acfonline.org.au
• Australian Multiple Birth Assoc Vic Branch – AMBA  www.amba.org.au 
  
  B
• Barwon Disability Resource Council – www.bdrc.org.au
• Brain Injury Matters – www.braininjurymatters.org
• Better Health Channel – www.betterhealth.vic.gov.au
• Better Hearing Aust – www.betterhearing.org.au
• Bicycle Victoria – www.bicyclenetwork.com.au
• Blepharospasm Support Group – www.eyeandear.org.au 
• Blind Citizens Aust – www.bca.org.au
• Boite – www.boite.com.au
• Borderlands Co-operative – www.borderlands.org.au
• BrianLink – www.brainlink.org.au
• Broken Rites (Aus) Collective – www.brokenrites.org.au/drupal
• Bronchiectasis Chat Group – bronchiectasis-subscribe@yahoogroups.com
  
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• Camp Eureka – campeureka.org.au
• Cancer Council – Support Groups – www.cancervic.org.au 
• CANTEEN – www.canteen.org.au
• Centres Against Sexual Assault – www.casa.org.au
• Cardio Facio Cutaneous Syndrome Family Network – www.cfcsyndrome.org
• Cardiomyopathy Association of Australia – www.cmaa.org.au
• Cerebral Palsy Support Network – www.cpsn.org.au
  
• CERES Community Environment Park – www.ceres.org.au 
• Charcot Marie Tooth Assoc Australia – Vic – www.cmt.org.au
• CHARGE – www.chargesyndrome.org.au
• Child Wise – www.ecpat.org
• Chinese Mental Health Self Help Group – www.adec.org.au
• Choose Cruelty Free- www. choosecrueltyfree .org.au 
• Chronic Illness Alliance –   www.chronicillness.org.au
• Chronic Pain Australia – www.chronicpainaustralia.org.au
• Coalition Against Duck Shooting – www.duck.org.au
• CoDA Australasia – www.codependentsanonymous.org.au
• Coeliac Society of Aust – Vic – www.coeliac.org.au
• Commonground Melbourne/ Groupwork Institute of Australia –
  www.groupwork.com.au
• Communication Rights Australia – www.communicationrights.org.au
• Community Child Care Vic – www.cccinc.org.au and www.ausccs.org.au 
• Compassionate Friends Bereaved Parents Centre – www.compassionatefriendsvictoria.org.au 
• Conflict Resolution Network (NSW) – www.crnhq.org
  
• Congenital Adrenal Hyperplasia Support Group – www.cah.org.au
• CDH Australia (formerly CHERUBS Australia) http://cdh.org.au
• Costello Syndrome International Support Group email – bence@midcoast.com.au
• Council On The Ageing –  www.cota.org.au
• Country AIDS Network (Vic) Inc –  can@can.org.au
• Cri Du Chat Support Group Aust – https://criduchat.org.au/
• Crohn’s and Colitis Australia – www.gsnv.org.au
• Cutis Laxa Internationale – www.cutislaxa.org/en/
• Cystic Fibrosis Support Groups – www.cfcc.org.au/page/106/support-groups
  
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• Deaf Victoria – www.deafvictoria.org.au
• Dementia Australia – www.dementia.org.au
• Diabetes Australia – Diabetes Community Network – www.diabetesvic.org.au
• Disability Advocacy & Information Service (Wodonga) –
  www.disability-advocacy.com.au 
• Domestic Violence & Incest Resource Centre – www.dvirc.org.au 
• Down Syndrome Association of Victoria – www.downsyndrome.org.au/vic/
• Dying With Dignity Victoria – www.dwdv.org.au/ 
• Dystrophic Epidermolysis Bullosa Research Assoc Aust. (DEBRAA Vic) – www.debra.org.au
  
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• Eating Disorders Foundation of Victoria – www.eatingdisorders.org.au
• Emerge Australia (ME/CFS Chronic Fatigue Syndrome) – https://emerge.org.au
• Endometriosis Assoc Vic – www.endometriosis.org.au
• Environment Victoria – www.envict.org.au
• Epilepsy Foundation – https://www.epilepsyfoundation.org.au
  
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• FACTS Food Anaphylactic Children Training & Support – https://allergyfacts.org.au
• Family Drug and Gambling Help – https://www.sharc.org.au/sharc-programs/family-drug-gambling-help/
• Free West Papua Campaign – www.freewestpapua.org
  
• Friends Of the Earth – FOE – www.melbourne.foe.org.au
  
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• Gay & Lesbian Switchboard – http://www.switchboard.org.au
• Geelong Bipolar Support Group – www.bipolarlife.org.au/geelong/ 
• Genetic Support Network of Victoria – www.gsnv.org.au 
• Goongerah Environment Centre – GECO –  www.geco.org.au
• Green Left Weekly – www.greenleft.org.au
• Greenpeace – www.greenpeace.org.au
  
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• Haemophilia Foundation Vic – http://www.hfv.org.au 
• Harm Reduction Victoria – www.hrvic.org.au
• Health Issues Centre – www.healthissuescentre.org.au
• HEARTKIDS Vic – www.heartkids.org.au
• Hepatitis Victoria (now LiverWELL) – https://liverwell.org.au/
• Histiocytosis Association of America – www.histio.org
• Home Education Network – www.home-ed.vic.edu.au
• Huntington’s Victoria – www.huntingtonsvic.org.au
  
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• Incontinentia Pigmenti International Foundation (USA) – http://www.ipif.org
• Inflamatory Neuropathy Support Group – https://www.ingroup.org.au
• Irritable Bowel Information & Support Assoc – IBIS – http://www.ibis-australia.org/
  
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• Jewish Voice for Peace – https://jewishvoiceforpeace.org
• Justice for Refugees – www.facebook.com/J4RVic/ 
  
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• Kooriweb Network – www.kooriweb.org   (link to Aboriginal Health Centre)
  
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• Laughter Clubs Victoria – http://www.laughterclubsvic.org
• Lawstuff (Young People’s Rights) www.lawstuff.org.au
• Lead Group Inc (NSW) – www.lead.org.au
• Leadership Plus Inc. (formerly Action for Community Living) www.leadershipplus.com
• Liberty –  www.libertyvictoria.org.au
• LiverWELL (Hepatitis Victoria) – https://liverwell.org.au/
• Low Vision Groups – Vision Australia – https://visionaustralia.org
  
• Lung Foundation Australia – https://lungfoundation.com.au
  
• Lymphoedema Association Australia – www.lymphaustralia.org.au/
  Living with Lymphoedema – Facebook support group www.facebook.com/groups/376043549464562
  
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• Meningitis Centre – www.meningitis.com.au
• Mental Illness Fellowship (now known as Wellways) – www.wellways.org
  www.mentallyhealthy.com – a site for anyone who has used Mental Health Services, especially in the western suburbs
• Mindworks Geelong – www.mindworksgeelong.org.au
• Mood Disorders Support Group – www.mentalhealthvic.org.au
• Motor Neurone Disease Association of Vic – www.mnd.asn.au
• Mucopolysaccharide & Related Diseases Society Aust Ltd – www.mpssociety.org.au
• Muscular Dystrophy Association Inc – www.mda.org.au
• Musculoskeletal Australia – www.msk.org.au
  
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• Narcotics Anonymous – NA – www.navic.net.au
• National Network of Adult & Adolescent Children Who have Mentally Ill Parent(s) – NNAAMI – www.nnaami.org
• New International Bookshop Collective – www.nibs.org.au
• NODSS – Narcolepsy & Overwhelming Daytime Sleep Society Aust –
  www.nodss.org.au
• NORD – National Organisation for Rare Disorders (USA) – www.rarediseases.org
  
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• One Hundred & One Ways of Communicating – www.expression.com.au
  
• Osteogenesis Imperfecta Society of Australia  – http://www.oiaustralia.org.au
  
• Otway Ranges Environment Network – www.oren.org.au
  
• Ovarian Cancer Australia – https://ovariancancer.net.au
• Overeaters Anonymous –  www.oa.org.au 
  
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• Parent Support Groups – Moira – Southern Region – www.moira.org.au
• Parents Jury – www.parentsjury.org.au
• PARKINSON’S Victoria – http://www.parkinsonsvic.org.au
• Peace Brigades International – www.peacebrigades.org
• People With Multiple Sclerosis  – Vic – www.msaustralia.org.au
• Pink Disease Support Group – http://www.pinkdisease.org
• Playgroup Victoria – www.playgroup.org.au
• Polio Network Victoria – www.independenceaustralia.com
• Porphyria Association Inc. – www.porphyria-australia.org
• Port Phillip ECOCentre – www.ecocentre.com
• Positive Women – www.positivewomen.org.au
• Post & Ante Natal Depression Association (PANDA) – www.panda.org.au
• Prader Willi Syndrome Assoc Vic – www.pws.asn.au
• Primary Biliary Cirrhosis (Facebook Group) – https://www.facebook.com/groups/AustralianPBCers/
• Primary Biliary Cirrhosis (Yahoo Group) – https://au.groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/PBCsupportaustralia/info
• Pt’chang Nonviolent Community Safety Group (group no longer active but continues to have useful information on website) – www.ptchang.org
• Public Transport Users Assoc – www.ptua.org.au

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• Radical Women – www.socialism.com
• Rare Voices Australia – www.rarevoices.org.au
• Reconciliation Australia www.reconciliation.org.au
• Refugee Action Collective – www.rac-vic.org
• Refugees Survivors and Ex-Detainees (RISE) www.riserefugee.org 
• Regional Disability Advocacy Service – www.rdas.org.au
• Residential Care Rights – www.vic.agedrights.asn.au
• Resourcing Health & Education in the Sex Industry – www.sexworker.org.au 
• Road Trauma Support Team – http://www.rtssv.org.au 
• Rosacea Support (Internet Group) – rosacea-support.org 
• Ross House – www.rosshouse.org.au
• RSI & Overuse Injury Assoc ACT – www.rsi.org.au
  
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• SANDS (miscarriage, stillbirth, and newborn death support) – www.sands.org.au
• Save Albert Park – www.savealbertpark.org
• Scleroderma Victoria (formerly Scleroderma Foundation of Victoria Inc) – http://www.sclerodermavictoria.com.au
• Seahorse Club of Victoria –  www.seahorsevic.com.au
• Seed Savers Network (NSW) – www.seedsavers.net
• Self Advocacy Resource Unit ( SARU) – www.saru.net.au
• Self Help Addiction Resource Centre Inc – SHARC –  www.sharc.org.au
• Sexaholics Anonymous –  https://saoz.net
• Short Statured People of Australia –  www.sspa.org.au
• Social Security Rights Victoria – SSRV http://www.ssrv.org.au
• SPELD Parents’ Support Group – www.speldvic.org.au 
• STAR Vic – www.starvictoria.org.au
• Stepfamily Assoc – www.stepfamily.org.au
• Stroke Assoc Vic – www.strokeassociation.com.au
• Sudden Infant Death Research Foundation – www.sidsandkidsvic.org
• Supporting Aussie Kids with Kabuki Syndrome – www.sakks.org
• Survivors on the Net – Australia – www.survivors.org.au
• SWAN – Syndromes Without a Name – UK – www.undiagnosed.org.uk
  
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• Tenants’ Union of Vic – www.tuv.org.au
• The Australian Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy Support Group –
  http://www.ozrsd.org
• The Chromosome 18 Registry&Research Society Aust – www.chromosome18.org
• Thyroid Australia –  www.thyroid.org.au
• Tough Love – http://www.toughlove.org.au
• Tourette Syndrome Association –  https://tourette.org.au
• Trigeminal Neuralgia Association – Sydney – www.tnaaustralia.org.au
  
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• Union of Australian Women (Vic) – www.uaw.org.au
• Unique in Australia – http://www.rarechromo.org
  
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• VANISH Inc – www.vanish.org.au
• 22q (Velo Cardio Facial Foundation) – www.22q.org.au
• Victorian Mental Illness Awareness Council – VMIAC – http://www.vmiac.org.au
• Victorian Speak Easy Association – www.speakeasy.org.au
• Victorian Turner’s Syndrome Assoc – www.turnersyndrome.org.au
  
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• Wegener Granulomatosis Support Group – wally.v@wegenersaustralia.com
• Wellways – www.wellways.org
• Whirled Foundation (formerly MENIERE’S Support Group Vic)  www.menieres.org.au
• Wilderness Society – www.wilderness.org.au
• Williams Syndrome Family Support Group Vic Inc – www.wsfsgvic.org.au
• Women With Disabilities Australia – www.wwda.org.au
• Women’s Health Victoria –  www.whv.org.au
• Women’s Information & Referral Exchange – WIRE www.wire.org.au
• Women’s International League for Peace & Freedom –
  www.wilpf.org.au 
• Women’s Resource Information & Support Centre – Ballarat –
  http://www.wrisc.org.au
• Women’s Web  – www.womensweb.com.au
• Workover – An internet group for injured workers in Victoria – http://au.groups.yahoo.com/group/workover
• WWOOF – Willing Workers On Organic Farms (Aust) – www.wwoof.com.au
  
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• Youth Disability Advocacy Service (YDAS) – www.ydas.org.au

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