headspace Tuggeranong offers a range of health services for young people aged 12-25 years. headspace Tuggeranong can help you if:
• Need someone to talk to
• Feeling down, stressed, or cant stop worrying
• Don’t feel like yourself
• Are being bullied, hurt or harassed or feeling unsafe
• Would like to cut down on your drug and or alcohol intake
• Having trouble gaining employment
• Having trouble with relationships
• Want to talk about sexuality or identity
• Want to find out more about sexual health and contraception
You may not know exactly what the problem is and that is fine too. The best way is to just give us a call and ask to see somebody. We'll talk you through it from there. What does it cost? There is NO COST for young people who access our service. All you need to do is bring your Medicare card with you. This page is for info only and cannot offer support or emergency assistance. If you're in need of immediate support, contact Lifeline on 13 11 14 or Kids Helpline on 1800 551 800. For more information about our duty of care to young people, go to https://headspace.org.au/duty-of-care/
Please note this page is not moderated outside of business hours, on weekends, or public holidays. Terms of Use:
This headspace Tuggeranong page is for people to find out more about headspace Tuggeranong, the services we offer, as well as discussion about important mental health and youth issues. Please be respectful of all points of view, and refrain from personal attacks on other users. headspace Tuggeranong will remove any posts which:
• are likely to be offensive to other readers
• discusses methods of su***de or self-harm
• discussed drug usage in an unbalanced way, e.g. omit the negative effects
• contains unhelpful advice, such as blaming a person for their depression
• is dogmatic, such as setting out courses of action as “the only way”
• is racist, sexist or discriminatory
• is obscene, or uses graphic sexual language
• is defamatory, or overly critical of services or organisations which provide help to others
• for any other reason is likely to cause harm / distress to other young people reading the story
• are posted for commercial purposes, and
• promote inaccurate, inappropriate or harmful health advice. headspace Tuggeranong will remove posts promoting organisations, products, services, events, competitions or information that is not relevant to the post. If you think your organization, product, service, event or competition may be relevant to the headspace Tuggeranong community, please drop us an email at info@headspacetuggeranong.com.au with information and we'll be in touch. In certain circumstances, if a post raises concerns about your safety, we may try to contact you to check that you and/or others are safe. If there are significant concerns, we may need to pass on your contact information to authorities who can help protect you and/or others, such as a crisis service or the police. Our preferred way to do this would be to support you to seek help. We are obliged to try to protect you and/or others if the information you submit tells us that:
you are being seriously hurt by someone else
you are thinking of seriously harming yourself, and
someone else is being, is likely to be, seriously hurt by you or another person. Please note headspace Tuggeranong recognizes that sometimes people need immediate help and support. The headspace Tuggeranong page cannot provide you with specific counselling, crisis services or support. If you need immediate assistance please call Kids Helpline on 1800 55 1800 or Lifeline on 13 11 14. headspace Tuggeranong does not check the page over the weekend or on public holidays. headspace Tuggeranong can take no responsibility for comments on our page, or any interactions fans may have on or off our page.
