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Information for people in immediate crisis who need help now!
Call Lifeline's 24 hour crisis line on 13 11 14 for support or dial 000 if life is in danger.
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Help us answer more calls and provide mental health, suicide prevention and crisis support services to all Australians by making a donation today.
Single, one off donations can be made by electronic transfer, cash, credit card, cheque, or money order.
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Volunteer
By volunteering for Lifeline not only will you be making a difference to the lives of other Australia who use Lifeline services, but you’ll also be enriching your own life.
It takes a lot of dedicated people to provide Lifeline's telephone crisis support services 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, across Australia. Lifeline relies on over 11,000 Volunteers nation wide to support Lifeline's crisis support line, help raise funds, work in retail outlets, or conduct administrative duties.
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Online Bookstore
Lifeline Canberra earns a major part of its funding by selling hundreds of thousands of donated items at two big Bookfairs and several smaller sales each year. We offer a wide range of fiction and non-fiction books for all ages, as well as magazines and pamphlets, comic books and atlases, records and CDs, videotapes and DVDs, games and puzzles.
A limited selection of our rarer, more valuable or collectable items is available for purchase from our online bookstore catalogue.
VISIT STORE
Lifeline Canberra is the original creator of the Accidental Counsellor course. This two-day program has been developed for people in virtually any role, who find themselves in situations where counselling or empathetic communication is required.
The program provides participants with a range of tried and tested counselling skills that work to create effective communication and deescalate clients who are in crisis e.g.
- highly distressed
- angry
- abusive
- manipulative
- drug or alcohol affected or
- need assistance for a mental health issue
Click here to download a course info sheet.
Click here to download a course registration form.
