Mental health programs for adults
NSW Health provides a wide range of mental health services and programs for adults experiencing mental health issues. The following services and programs are aimed at adults.
Get help now
If you need to talk to someone immediately, the Mental Health Line is open 24/7 on 1800 011 511
Other telephone crisis services are also open 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
You will also find other support and services by topic in the contacts list – for example, if you are looking for help with perinatal anxiety or you want talk to someone about suicide.
Mental health programs
- The Housing and Accommodation Support Initiative (HASI) – a state wide program which supports people with a severe mental illness to live and participate in the community in the way that they want to.
- The Housing and Accommodation Support Initiatve (HASI) Plus – a transitional program where participants have access to accommodation and flexible supports especially designed to help them recover and transition to a more independent life in the community.
- Pathways to Community Living (PCLI) – this initiative supports people with enduring and serious mental illness, who have been in hospital for more than 12 months, to re-establish their lives in the community.
- Community Living Supports (CLS) – a state wide program which supports people with a severe mental illness to live and participate in the community in the way they want to.
- Mental Health Community Living Supports for Refugees (MH-CLSR) – a community based program providing support for refugees and asylum seekers with mental health issues to live and participate in the community.
- Mental health and the NDIS – information about how the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) can help people with a mental health illness.
- Suicide prevention services – a list of non-government organisations and community based services funded by the NSW Government to deliver suicide prevention services and activities.
