HelpingMinds - Nedlands (formerly ARAFMI)

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Independent, free service helping people with a mental illness know and protect their rights. 

Office hours are 8:30AM - 4:30PM, however the service operates 24hrs a day, 7 days a week. 

Mental Health Advocates can help you if you are: 
• an involuntary patient in hospital.
• someone on a Community Treatment Order (CTO)
• someone who has been referred for examination by a psychiatrist (they must let you use a phone to call us if you are being detained)
• a voluntary patient in hospital who is not allowed to leave because you are being detained for assessment
• a mentally impaired accused person under the Criminal Law (Mentally Impaired Accused) Act 1996 (e.g. on a Hospital or Custody Order) and are detained in an authorised hospital or living in the community
• a resident of a private psychiatric hostel.

Types of assistance include, helping you;

•	understand and enforce your rights
•	arrange a meeting with your doctor or treating team and attend with you
•	explain your wishes to your treating team
•	get a further opinion from another psychiatrist
•	apply to the Mental Health Tribunal to review your involuntary order or other decisions made about you
•	support you in the Tribunal hearing
•	refer you to lawyers
•	get input into your treatment, support and discharge plan
•	make a complaint about the mental health service
•	get you an interpreter
•	make contact with your family or other support persons.

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Provision of confidential support and services to children, youth, adults and families who are caring for someone with a mental illness or individuals who are affected by a mental illness.

The majority of our services are free of charge and focus on: advocacy, understanding the mental health system, education, counselling and support, school holiday programs and respite.

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Consumers of Mental Health WA (CoMHWA)

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The service can be availed by carers of people with mental health issues.

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