Useful links

Tasmanian Government Organisations

• Mental Health Tribunal
• Guardianship and Administration Board
• Tasmanian Forensic Tribunal 
• Office of the Public Guardian
• Mental Health Services
• Community Forensic Mental Health Services
• Disability Services
• Department of Health and Human Services
• Victims Support Services
• Supreme Court
• Legal Aid Commission of Tasmania

You have the right to be legally represented at the hearing. If you cannot afford a solicitor you should contact the Legal Aid Commission of Tasmania. They can assist you with legal representation and their lawyers can act for you if you are granted legal aid.

• Ombudsman
• Health Complaints Commissioner
• Tasmanian Government Portal

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Mental Health and Assistance Organisations

• Richmond Fellowship of Tasmania
• Aspire
• Advocacy Tasmania - Mental Health Representation Scheme - Free, Confidential and Statewide

A representative from the Mental Health Representation Scheme will make contact with you in relation to your upcoming hearing to see whether you would like their assistance.

Advocacy Tasmania can provide you with information about:

• what will happen at the hearing;
• provide advice about how to best present yourself at the hearing; and
• can arrange for a representative to attend the hearing to support you to speak for yourself, or speak for you.

• ARAFMI (Association of Relatives and Friends of the Mentally Ill)
• Beyondblue
• Australian Drug Foundation
• Multicultural Mental Health Australia
• SANE Australia (formerly the Schizophrenia Australia Foundation)
• Law Society of Tasmania
• National Association of Community Legal Centres - Australia

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Other Jurisdictions

• Queensland Mental Health Review Tribunal
• NSW Mental Health Review Tribunal
• Mental Health Review Board of Victoria
• Office of the Public Advocate, South Australia

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Information Resources

• Tasmanian legislation online
• Online dictionary of mental health
• Legal Dictionaries
• Australasian Legal Information Institute (AustLII)
• Auseinet - contact numbers for peak mental health organisations 
• Schizophrenia Research Institute
• Australian Bureau of Statistics

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Useful Contacts

• Mental Health Council of Tasmania
  Suite 5, Mayfair Plaza
  236 Sandy Bay Road, SANDY BAY Tas 7005
  ph: (03)6224 9222
  freecall: 1800 808 890
  email:  mhcrc_inc@netspace.net.au
  
• Tasmanian Mental Health Consumers Network
  TMHCN office and resource room
  The Mental Health Community Resource Centre
  97 Campbell Street, HOBART Tas 7000
  ph: (03) 6236 9312
  
• Hobart Community Legal Centre
• • Hobart
    166 Macquarie Street, HOBART Tas 7000
    ph: (03) 6223 2500
  • Bridgewater
    Covehill Fair Shopping Centre, BRIDGEWATER Tas 7030
    ph:  (03) 6263 4755
    
• Launceston Community Legal Centre
  68 York Street, LAUNCESTON Tas 7250
  ph:  (03) 6334 1577
  freecall:  1800 066 019
  
• North-West Community Legal Centre Inc
  62 Stewart Street,   DEVONPORT   Tas   7310
  ph:  (03) 6424 8720
  email:  nwclc@bigpond.net.au