Where can I get help when alcohol or drugs are a problem?
Do you or someone you care about need help to stop or cut down alcohol or drug use? Alcohol and Drug Information Service ( ADIS) and Drug and alcohol services from Area Health Services are free, confidential and welcome people from all cultures. Professional interpreters are available if you need help to communicate with staff. Drug and Alcohol staff can also ask for an interpreter. The resource links to ADIS State-wide support and Illawarra Shoalhaven Local Health District Drug & Alcohol services. The resource shows people of various background getting support from these services either face to face, using an interpreter or linking with phone interpreting service.
By My Side audio-visual resource
The By My Side audio-visual resource shares bereaved parents’ experiences and advice for other parents whose child had died from cancer, in their own words. The book aims to normalise parents’ grief and reduce feelings of isolation.
COVID-19 symptoms and Testing - Poster
If you have symptoms such as cough, sore/scratchy throat or shortness of breath or unexplained fever, you should be tested for COVID-19. Call your GP or visit a public COVID-19
Living well with chronic heart failure
Information for people with chronic heart failure on how to manage their condition.
Information for parents after a miscarriage
Information developed by the social work team at St George Hospital, Kogarah to provide practical and emotional support to parents after a miscarriage.
Information for parents after a stillbirth
Information developed by the social work team at St George Hospital, Kogarah to provide practical and emotional support after the stillbirth of a baby.
COVID - 19 - 24 / 7 Parenting
Proven parenting tips and activities for all ages
Diabetes Information in your Language
Several translated diabetes resources in over 20 languages for use by general public and health professionals
Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale (EPDS)
23 translations of the EPDS have been recently checked, revised or back-translated and then reformatted (by Western Sydney translation service) onto the NSW Health eMR form to enable clinicians better access to validated versions (via a URL link). These translations will be stored on MHCS website and clinicians will be directed to this ‘one-stop shop’ source of translations. This will significantly improve consistent use of validated translations. Currently, there is only one outdated Western Australian published collection of EPDS translations. There are also translated versions (Arabic, Chinese, Hindi, Filipino, Khmer (Cambodian), Lao, Macedonian, Serbian, Spanish, Tagalog, Thai, Turkish, Vietnamese) on the MHCS website however their origin and validity are unknown, and the eMR template is not correct.
Intellectual disability
This translated fact sheet about intellectual disability provides information on what intellectual disability is, how a child is diagnosed, what can be done to help and what causes intellectual disability.