16. Disability
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42 address(es) found
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Action for Community Living
86 Herbert Street
Northcote Vic 3070
Tel: 9489 2999 Fax: 9489 2988
NRS: www.relayservice.com.au
Email: acl@advocacyhouse.org.au
Web: www.advocacyhouse.org
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Action on Disability within Ethnic Communities (ADEC)
175 Plenty Road
Preston Vic 3072
Tel: 9480 1666; 1800 626 078 (toll free)
Fax: 9480 3444
Email: info@adec.org.au
Web: www.adec.org.au
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AED Legal Centre
Suite 4, Level 5, 2–26 Elizabeth Street
Melbourne Vic 3000
Tel: 9639 4333 Fax: 9650 2833
Email: noni.lord@aed.org.au
Web: www.aed.org.au
Assistance for people with a disability who have employment and education related legal problems.
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AMIDA (housing advocacy)
1st Floor, Suite 1.11
Ross House
247 Flinders Lane
Melbourne Vic 3000
Tel: 9650 2722 Fax: 9654 8575
Email: amida@infoxchange.net.au
Web: www.amida.infoxchange.net.au
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Association for Children with Disability
Suite 2, 98 Morang Road
Hawthorn Vic 3122
Tel: 9818 2000; 1800 654 013 (toll free rural areas)
Email: mail@acd.org.au
Web: www.acd.org.au
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Australian Building Codes Board
GPO Box 9839
Canberra ACT 2601
Tel: 1300 134 631
Email: bca@abcb.gov.au
Web: www.abcb.gov.au
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Australian Human Rights Commission
Complaint Handling Section
GPO Box 5218
Sydney NSW 2001
Tel: (02) 9284 9888; 1300 656 419 (local call)
TTY: 1800 620 241 (toll free) Fax: 02 9284 9611
Email: complaintsinfo@humanrights.gov.au
Web: www.humanrights.gov.au
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BrainLink
The Nerve Centre
54 Railway Road
Blackburn Vic 3130
Tel: 9845 2950; 1800 677 579 (FreeCall)
Fax: 9845 2882
Email: via the website
Web: www.brainlink.org.au
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Chief Psychiatrist
Department of Human Services
17th Floor, 50 Lonsdale Street
Melbourne Vic 3000
Tel: 9096 7571; 1300 767 299 (local call cost)
Web: www.health.vic.gov.au/chiefpsychiatrist
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Community Visitors
Tel: 9603 9500; 1300 309 337 (local call cost)
TTY: 9603 8529
Email: via the website
Web: www.publicadvocate.vic.gov.au
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CRS Australia (Commonwealth Rehabilitation Service)
Tel: 1800 277 277 (toll free) to find your local CRS office
Web: www.crsaustralia.gov.au
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Department of Human Services
Child Protection Crisis Service: 13 12 78 (24-hours/7 days per week)
Web: www.dhs.vic.gov.au
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Disability Advocacy Resource Unit (DARU)
c/- Victorian Council of Social Services
Level 8, 128 Exhibition Street
Melbourne Vic 3000
Tel: 9639 5807
TTY: 13 36 77 quote 9639 5807
Email: admin@daru.org.au
Web: www.daru.org.au
The DARU is a resource unit established to resource Victorian disability advocacy organisations. It is auspiced by the Victorian Council of Social Service (VCOSS) and jointly managed by VCOSS and VDAN (see: entry for VDAN, below).
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Disability Discrimination Legal Service (DDLS)
Ross House Association Inc.
2nd Floor, 247 Flinders Lane
Melbourne Vic 3000
Tel: 9654 8644; 1300 882 872 (country callers only)
TTY: 9654 6817
Email: info@ddls.org.au
Web: www.communitylaw.org.au/ddls
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Disability Intake and Response Service
Tel: 1300 650 172
TTY: 19096 9140
Web: www.dhs.vic.gov.au/disability
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Disability Justice Advocacy Inc.
86 Herbert Street
Northcote Vic 3067
Tel: 9481 7022; 1800 808 126 (toll free)
Fax: 9489 2988
Email: info@justadvocacy.com
Web: www.justadvocacy.com
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Disability Services Commissioner
Level 30, 570 Bourke Street
Melbourne Vic 3000
Tel: 1300 728 187 (local call); 1800 677 342 (toll free)
TTY: 1300 726 563 Fax: 8608 5765
Email: complaints@odsc.vic.gov.au
Web: www.odsc.vic.gov.au
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Disability Services Intake & Response Service
Tel: 1800 783 783
Web: www.dhs.vic.gov.au/disability/contact_us
If you are deaf, have a hearing impairment or complex communication needs you can contact your regional Service on:
- TTY 1800 008 149;
- National Relay Service on 13 36 77; or
- Speech-to-Speech Relay Service on 1300 555 727,
and ask to connected to the relevant Intake and Response Service regional office in your area.
Disability information support.
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Down Syndrome Association of Victoria
219 Napier Street
Fitzroy Vic 3066
Tel: 1300 658 873 Fax: 9486 9601
Web: www.dsav.asn.au
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Health Services Commissioner
30th Floor, 570 Bourke Street
Melbourne Vic 3000
Tel: 8601 5200; 1800 136 066 (toll free, country areas)
TTY: 1300 550 275
Fax: 8601 5219
Email: hsc@dhs.vic.gov.au
Web: www.health.vic.gov.au/hsc
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Melbourne City Mission – Disability Support
19 King Street
Melbourne Vic 3000
Tel: 8625 4444 Fax: 8625 4410
Email: info@mcm.org.au
Web: www.melbournecitymission.org.au
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Mental Health Legal Centre Inc.
9th Floor, 10–16 Queen Street
Melbourne Vic 3000
Tel: 9629 4422; 1800 555 887 (toll free, country callers)
Fax: 9614 0488
Email: mental_health_vic@clc.net.au
Web: www.communitylaw.org.au/mentalhealth
The MHLC project "Inside Access" offers telephone legal advice to prisoners on civil issues on 9614 1122.
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Mental Health Review Board
Level 30, Marland House
570 Bourke Street
Melbourne Vic 3000
Tel: 8601 5270; 1800 242 703 (toll free)
Fax: 8601 5299
Email: mhrb@dhs.vic.gov.au
Web: www.mhrb.vic.gov.au
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Mental Illness Fellowship (Victoria) Ltd
Fairfield Place, 276 Heidelberg Road
Fairfield Vic 3078
Tel: 8486 4200 Fax: 8486 4265
Helpline: 8486 4222
Email: enquiries@mifellowship.org
Web: www.mifellowship.org
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National Disability Abuse & Neglect Hotline
Hotline: 1800 880 052
TTY: 1800 301 130
Email: disabilityhotline@pwd.org.au
Web: www.disabilityhotline.org
To report abuse or neglect of people with a disability using Commonwealth, state or territory run or funded disability services.
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Office of the Public Advocate
5th Floor, 436 Lonsdale Street
Melbourne Vic 3000
24-hour emergency services:
Tel: 1300 309 337
TTY: 9603 9529 Fax: 1300 787 510
Email: via the website
Web: www.publicadvocate.vic.gov.au
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Office of the Senior Practitioner
Level 7, 50 Lonsdale Street
Melbourne Vic 3000
Tel: 9096 8427
Email: seniorpractitioner@dhs.vic.gov.au
Web: www.dhs.vic.gov.au/ds/osp
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Ombudsman Victoria
Level 9, North Tower
459 Collins Street
Melbourne Vic 3000
Tel: 9613 6222; 1800 806 314 (regional toll free)
Telephone Interpreter Service: 13 14 50
Fax: 9614 0246
Email: ombudvic@ombudsman.vic.gov.au
Web: www.ombudsman.vic.gov.au
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Social Security Rights Victoria Inc.
PO Box 30
Abbotsford Vic 3067
Tel: 9416 1111 (Melbourne advice only); 5221 4744 (Geelong advice only);
1800 094 164 (toll free country callers)
Fax: 9419 3552
Email: via website
Web: www.ssrv.org.au
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Standards Australia
GPO Box 476
Sydney NSW 2001
Tel: 1800 035 822 Fax: (02) 9237 6010
Email: mail@standards.org.au
Web: www.standards.org.au
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STAR Victoria
2nd Floor, Ross House
247 Flinders Lane
Melbourne Vic 3000
Tel: 9650 2730 Fax: 9650 6972
Email: info@starvictoria.org.au
Web: www.starvictoria.org.au
Advocacy for people with an intellectual disability and their families.
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Student Wellbeing Branch
Department of Education and Early Childhood Development (Vic)
Tel: 9637 2000
Information and referral service: 1800 809 834
Web: www.eduation.vic.gov.au
Program for students with disabilities.
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VALID
235 Napier Street
Fitzroy Vic 3065
Tel: 9416 4003; 1800 655 570 (toll free rural Victoria only)
Email: office@valid.org.au
Web: www.valid.org.au
Advocacy for adults with intellectual disabilities and their families.
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VICSERV (Psychiatric Disability Services of Victoria)
Level 2, 22 Horne Street
Elsternwick Vic 3185
Tel: 9519 7000 Fax: 9519 7022
Email: reception@vicserv.org.au
Web: www.vicserv.org.au
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Victoria Legal Aid
Public Law Library
350 Queen Street
Melbourne Vic 3000
Tel: 9269 0232 Fax: 9269 0324
Email: library@vla.vic.gov.au
Web: www.legalaid.vic.gov.au/library.htm
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Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal – Guardianship List
55 King Street
Melbourne Vic 3000
Tel: 9628 9911; 1800 133 055 (toll free)
Fax: 9628 9932
Email: vcat@vcat.vic.gov.au
Web: www.vcat.vic.gov.au
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Victorian Disability Advocacy Network (VDAN)
Email: vdan@vdan.org.au
VDAN is a network of Victorian disability advocacy services.
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Victorian Equal Opportunity and Human Rights Commission
Level 3, 380 Lonsdale Street
Melbourne Vic 3000
Tel: 1300 891 848 Fax: 1300 891 858
TTY: 1300 289 621
Email: information@veohrc.vic.gov.au
Web: www.humanrightscommission.vic.gov.au
Complaints and advice:
Tel: 1300 292 153 TTY: 1300 289 621
Email: complaints@veohrc.vic.gov.au
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Victorian Mental Illness Awareness Council (VMIAC)
Building 1, 22 Aintree Street
Brunswick East Vic 3057
Tel: 9380 3900 Fax: 9388 1445
Email: info@vmiac.com.au
Web: www.vmiac.com.au
Peak mental health consumer organisation.
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Victorian Network on Recreation and Disability
86 Herbert Street
Northcote Vic 3070
Tel: 9489 2999; 1300 727 017 (country local call)
Email: acl@afcl.org.au
Web: www.advocacyhouse.org
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Villamanta Disability Rights Legal Service Inc.
44 Bellerine Street
Geelong Vic 3220
Advice: 1800 014 111 (toll free) (1–3 pm)
Admin: 5229 2925 Fax: 5229 3354
TTY: 13 36 77 (then ask for 5229 2925)
Email: legal@villamanta.org.au
Web: www.villamanta.org.au
This is a specialist disability legal service, only available for clients with legal issues related to their disability.
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Youth Disability Advocacy Service (YDAS)
c/- Youth Affairs Council of Victoria
Level 2, 172 Flinders Street
Melbourne Vic 3000
Tel: 9267 3799; 1300 727 176 (fixed toll)
Email: info@yacvic.org.au
Web: www.yacvic.org.au
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