headspace
Portland

These are the latest up to date headspace fact sheets that are found on the headspace national website also - click on the specific fact sheet.

Full List:

• Alcohol
• Conversations with young person
• Create connections
• Cut back on alcohol and other drugs
• Dealing with relationship break ups
• Eat well
• Get enough sleep
• Get into life
• Getting help from a GP
• Healthy headspace during bushfire season
• Helping a friend
• How to cope with stress of natural disasters
• Learn skills for tough times
• Leaving secondary school
• Maintaining healthy gaming
• Maintaining healthy romantic relationships
• Overview of mental health for family and friends
• Stay active
• Supporting a young person after a natural disaster
• Tips for a healthy headspace
• Understanding Anger
• Understanding Anxiety
• Understanding Bi-Polar
• Understanding Bullying
• Understanding Depression
• Understanding Eating Disorders
• Understanding Gender Identity
• Understanding Grief
• Understanding Loneliness
• Understanding Psychosis
• Understanding sex and sexual health
• Understanding sexual consent
• Understanding your options after leaving school
• Understanding sexuality and sexual identity
• What are mental health difficulties

First nations specific:

• headspace Take A Step - How to help a friend
• headspace Take A Step - Not feeling too deadly
• headspace Take A Step - Stronger you wheel
• headspace Take A Step - Where can I go for extra support

Multilingual specific:

• Translated factsheets | headspace

Welcome Pack Information for Young People:

Everyone is welcome at headspace. This pack introduces you to our headspace services, where you can find further information and support.

Welcome pack - Young People: Click here

Welcome Pack Information for Families and Friends:

headspace is a famiy and friends inclusive service. We believe that family and friends play an important role in a young persons journey to better wellbeing. We also understand that family and friendships can take many different forms including all types of families, caregivers and significant others. This pack introduces you to our service where you can find further information and support for you and your young person. 

Welcome pack - Families and Friends: Click here

Family roles and responsibility brochure: Click here

Our Purple Pack is made up of a stack of useful resources we've found from many different groups and organisations to support transgender and gender diverse young people.

It includes:

• Information on pronouns, medical and social transitioning, coming out/inviting in, your legal rights, navigating relationships, sexuality and more.
• Stories from other gender and sexually diverse young people.
• Info on where to go to get more information and support online or in person.

The aim of this pack is to help you and your loved ones along your journey no matter what point you are at.

Most importantly, we want you to know that headspace Portland is a safe place and we want to support you. Call us on 1300 276 749 if you would like to speak to someone. We're here to help.

The Purple Pack:

Resources:

• Trans 101: Gender Identity Crash Course (from YGender and Minus18)

• What is gender identity? (from headspace)

• How headspace can help (from headspace)

Information for family and friends:

• Understanding gender identity - for family (from headspace) 

• Families Like Mine (from Beyond Blue)

Information about how to obtain a Medicare card on the Services Australia website

The doctors and counsellors of our clinic bulk-bill Medicare for services provided. This means that you only need to bring your Medicare Card, and if you have one, your healthcare card.

You don’t need a referral to see one of our intake workers. The intake worker will speak to you regarding the services we can offer based on what you need. A mental health treatment plan may need to be created so you can access our ongoing counselling services.