The Blueprint Family Support Project provides information, support and advocacy to families who are caring for a child with complex disabilities and fragile health conditions in their family home. The project is based in Leura NSW but its services cover the Nepean area (Hawkesbury, Penrith, Blue Mountains).

The Aboriginal Disability Network brings together Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people with disability to:

• tell our stories
• give each other support
• create a voice for change
• speak for ourselves.

Two new websites have been added to our Austism weblinks.

ABA Resources

Australian community legal centres (CLCs) are independent, non-profit community organisations that provide free legal services to the public. Community legal centres that provide referral, advice and assistance to more than 350,000 people each year. These services are provided free of charge. About 20 centres receive no or very little funding and are staffed entirely by volunteers. All other centres receive funds from a variety of sources including state and federal governments and philanthropic organisations.

For more information about Community Legal Centres accross the country visit the National Association of Community Legal Centres (www.naclc.org.au).

The Combined Community Legal Centres Group (NSW) Inc (CCLCG) is the peak body for community legal centres in NSW. If you are looking for legal advice Community Legal Centres (CLCs) may be able to help you. CLCs are independent, non-profit community organisations providing free legal advice, information and referrals for individuals and communities across New South Wales.

There are 39 CLCs throughout NSW employing qualified staff including solicitors, social workers and community legal educators. We also have volunteer solicitors, barristers, law students and others working with us to extend our legal services.

Some Centres provide legal advice over the phone and hold interview and advice sessions after business hours. For information on services offered by individual Centres please contact the centre in your area directly.

Source: Combined Community Legal Centres NSW

The Schizophrenia Fellowship of NSW Inc. is committed to improving the welfare of people living with schizophrenia, their relatives and carers, and professionals working in the area.

The Fellowship works to:

• Eliminate stigma and create a society that is understanding and accepting.
• Ensure that people with schizophrenia, and their carers and relatives, have access to information and appropriate services.
• Advocate on behalf of people with schizophrenia, their carers and relatives and mental health professionals, for better government policy in the areas of research, treatment, rehabilitation, housing and other relevant areas.
• Provide innovative programs and support.
• Ensure that the Fellowship has effective and accountable management.

Source: The Schizophrenia Fellowship of NSW Inc.