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Collier Charitable Fund, Jack Brockhoff Foundation and Kilfera Foundation
The Collier Charitable Fund, Jack Brockhoff Foundation and the Kilfera Foundation are co-funding Crisis Support Services' Online Counselling for Suicide Prevention project, the first online counselling for suicide prevention service to exist in Australia.This innovative project will deliver online counselling sessions, free of charge, to the carers of people at risk of suicide and people who are bereaved after the loss of a loved one to suicide. Our skilled counsellors will offer expert support and information via online counselling including practical strategies on how to keep someone safe and take care of themselves. The online counselling service will increase accessibility to vital counseling services for people who are otherwise unable access to support due to geographical, emotional or social isolation.
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Freemasons Lodge Chelmsford
The Freemasons Lodge Chelmsford is supporting MensLine Australia to provide critical information to men living in rural and remote NSW. With their help, community health centres will raise awareness about MensLine Australia and provide tipsheets such as children and separation, tips for long distance fathers and managing conflict. Men who are geographically isolated will have access to the information and support they need, when they need it most.
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Google Grants
Google Grants is an ongoing supporter of CSS through the provision of Google AdWordsTM advertising for the MensLine Australia website. MensLine Australia advertising appears when particular search terms are used in Google. This ensures more men are aware of the services available to them and provides a vital link into the support MensLine Australia offers. The advertising is worth $20,000 - $50,000 per year.
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Helen Macpherson Smith Trust and Telematics Course Development Fund
Helen Macpherson Smith Trust and Telematics Course Development Fund are proud supporters of CSS. Recently they have continued their support and co-funded the MensLine Australia Online Counselling Provision and Training Project, maximising service options available to people seeking help and building capacity within CSS and the broader sector.
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The Ian Potter Foundation
The Ian Potter Foundation supported the development of 20 clinical worksheets for MensLine Australia Call Back Service. The worksheets address self care, communication and anger management and are a useful therapeutic tool for both counsellors and individuals. Worksheets are accessible on the MensLine Australia website for use by all Australians.
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Leader Community Newspapers
CSS are extremely grateful for the generous support we continually receive from Leader Community Newspapers, key providers of local news to the Victorian community, who regularly publish pro-bono advertisements of our vital services throughout their many publications to ensure people in need know where to turn for help.
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ManSpace Magazine
ManSpace have kindly published pro-bono advertisements for MensLine Australia in their quarterly magazine. ManSpace is a celebration of what men get up to in their spare time. From collections and hobbies through to sheds, garages and man caves – ManSpace is the only magazine that taps into the personal stories and passions that make men tick.
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The Miller Foundation
The Miller Foundation continue their long standing relationship with Crisis Support Services, consistently providing funds essential to the continuation and expansion of our much needed services. In 2011-12, this funding will support CSS’ Information Technology Infrastructure upgrade in order to future proof our data management systems. The upgrade will allow CSS to provide better service to clients, provide cross-service data analysis to inform the broader sector and government, and become more time efficient and cost effective.
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Funded by Percy Baxter
Charitable Trust and L G & J E
Brown Charitable Trust Fund
managed by Perpetual
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Perpetual Trustees — Percy Baxter Charitable Trust and L G & J E Brown Charitable Trust Fund
Perpetual Trustees acting on behalf of Percy Baxter Charitable Trust and L G & J E Brown Charitable Trust Fund each respectively provided $50,000 to support the development of an e-learning tool which provides training in how to work effectively with men and identifying suicide risk of those located in rural and remote Australia. This important training tool will be available both on DVD and as an online module and provided to 17,000 health professional workers across Rural and Remote Australia.
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SBS Foundation
Thanks to the SBS Foundation, MensLine Australia is expected to receive an anticipated amount of $100,000 worth of advertising over a 12 month period. MensLine Australia advertisements will be screened on SBS at a variety of times with a preference given to air time during sporting programs and events.
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Scanlon Foundation
The Scanlon Foundation has provided support for the national Building Capacity in the Migrant and Refugee Sector Project. Five non-profit organisations working with migrants and refugees will receive tailored training. The project will build the capacity of services around the country, ensuring that some of the most vulnerable members of our community receive the highest quality support for mental health and suicide prevention.
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