Useful Links

This page includes links to other services you may find helpful.

Emergency & Telephone Counselling Services

Lifeline 0800 543 354 24 hours
Chinese Lifeline 0800 888 880 24 hours
Kidsline 0800 543 754 24 hours
Mensline 0800 636 754 24 hours
Victim Support 0800 842 846 24 hours
Youthline 0800 376 633 5pm - 12pm

Emergency Psychiatric Services

Day service 0800 920092 or 03 364 0482 9am- 5pm
Night service 03 364 0640 5pm - 9am

Mental Health

Mental Health Education & Resource Centre (MHERC)

Schizophrenia Fellowship Trust

Parenting & Adolescents

  GAIN Family Programme

Support Groups

Anxiety Support Canterbury Formed from the merger of support groups for Agoraphobia & Panic Disorder; Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) and Social Anxiety. Offers free information, education, resources and inspiration to people who have many types of anxieties and phobias and who live in Christchurch & Nth. Canterbury (New Zealand). Provides topic and education sessions led by qualified subject matter speakers and runs separate support group meetings for each anxiety consumer group.
Bipolar Support Canterbury Provides information about the disorder, runs peer support groups, offers a one to one support service and runs education and information sessions on bipolar disorder.
Obsessive Compulsive Disorder Support Group Provides a safe place for people with OCD and their families to share common ground, information and support.
Pathways Christchurch branch offering quality unit-based accommodation and flexible support choices to assist people with mental illness towards recovery and independence.
Social Phobia Support Group Support and information for people with social phobias. Raising community awareness of the condition.
Stepping Stone Trust Community based psychiatric rehabilitation accommodation and support services. Information on care and community support.

Other

Work & Income New Zealand (WINZ)