There are many wonderful organisations out there offering help and support to families and victims and I would like to acknowledge their assistance and refer you to their web pages. Official Police and government sites are at the top of the page.

                             Australian Police and Government Missing Persons Resources

http://www.missingpersons.gov.au/home/  - National Missing Persons Co-ordination Centre  (Australian Federal Police)

To contact them - e mail  -  missing@afp.gov.au

or phone toll free - 1800 000 634.

National Missing Persons Coordination Centre
PO Box 401
Canberra City ACT 2601

www.lawlink.nsw.gov.au/missingpersons

Families and Friends of Missing Persons Unit - NSW - offers counselling and support to those left behind.
You can also find various FFMPU publications, reports, tracing and support service information and back issues of FFMPU Newsletters on the FFMPU
website www.lawlink.nsw.gov.au/missingpersons   or Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/missing.persons.501/

FFMPU is located in Parramatta. They are located in the Parramatta Justice Precinct (PJP).
Families and Friends of Missing Persons Unit
Victims Services, Attorney General's Department of NSW
Level 1, 160 Marsden Street, Parramatta NSW 2150
Locked Bag 5118, Parramatta NSW 2124

Phone: (02) 8688 8173
Freecall: 1800 227 772                               Fax: (02) 8688 9632
or e-mail ffmpu@agd.nsw.gov.au

http://www.crimestoppers.com.au/

Crimestoppers - 1800 333 000

To report any sighting of any missing person, or information you may have (or to report any crime). Going missing is NOT a crime but Crimestoppers will pass on your information to Police who are handling each missing persons case. You can call 24 hours a day and you CAN remain anonymous.

https://www.police.nsw.gov.au/can_you_help_us/missing_persons

 - NSW Police Missing Persons Registry

NSW Police Missing Persons Unit
1 Charles Street
Parramatta NSW
Phone: (02) 8835 7656 or

Toll Free 1 800 025 091
Fax: (02) 8835 7665

https://www.police.qld.gov.au/EventsandAlerts/missingPersons/default.htm

 - QLD Police Missing Persons Bureau  -  telephone  07 3364 6213 (within Australia)

 Victoria Police Missing Persons Desk  - phone  1800 808 606

Homicide Squad - (03) 9865 2770

 Western Australian Missing Persons

https://www.crimestopperswa.com.au/unsolved-cases-category/missing-persons/

WA Police MPU
Tel:   (08) 9223 3666

http://www.sapolice.sa.gov.au/sapol/safety_security/missing_persons.jsp

South Australian Missing Persons

Adelaide Missing Persons Investigation Section phone -  (08) 8463 7867

                   Australian Community Missing Persons Organisations

https://www.facebook.com/LeaveALightOninc/

Leave a Light On aims to raise awareness of missing persons cold cases in Australia. By working alongside other missing persons organisations we can promote long-term cases and raise awareness of the need for ongoing support for families and friends dealing with the ambiguous loss of a missing person. run by Suzie Ratcliffe, sister of missing child Joanne Ratcliffe.

https://mpan.com.au/

Missing Persons Advocacy Network (MPAN) 
 

https://www.danielmorcombe.com.au/

                       Mental Health Support Services & Suicide Prevention

Lifeline: 24-hour telephone support, counselling and referral information. Tel: 13 11 14   https://www.lifeline.org.au/

https://kidshelpline.com.au/          Kids Helpline (under 18 years): 1800 55 1800

https://www.blackdoginstitute.org.au/  The Black Dog Institute is dedicated to understanding, preventing and treating mental illness. We are about creating a world where mental illness is treated with the same level of concern, immediacy and seriousness as physical illness; where scientists work to discover the causes of illness and new treatments, and where discoveries are immediately put into practice through health services, technology and community education.

https://www.beyondblue.org.au/the-facts/suicide-prevention    Beyond Blue provides information and support to help everyone in Australia achieve their best possible mental health, whatever their age and wherever they live. Beyond Blue is working on reducing the tragic suicide toll by informing people at risk of suicide or who have attempted to take their life with support options, and providing practical advice for people worried about someone they think might be suicidal on how to help.  

https://www.suicidepreventionaust.org/  

Suicide Prevention Australia is the peak body for suicide prevention in Australia, representing over 180 Members and Associates. We work to build a stronger suicide prevention sector, a more aware and engaged community, and a more effective regulatory and funding environment. Together we can achieve our shared vision of a world without suicide.

https://www.suicidecallbackservice.org.au/

The Suicide Call Back Service is a free, professional, 24 hour seven days a week national counselling service that provides free telephone and online counselling. You can call us anywhere and anytime on 1300 659 467.

https://www.youthbeyondblue.com/understand-what's-going-on/suicide-prevention

http://www.ifys.com.au/  - Integrated Family and Youth Services

The Integrated Family and Youth Service (IFYS) provides a range of specialist support and intervention programs for children, young people and families. Working closely with other non-government and government agencies, the organisation operates from numerous locations throughout Queensland ranging from Gold Coast through to Cairns in the far north of the State and provides accommodation, support and counselling services.

https://www.sane.org/health-professionals/276-suicide-prevention-program    SANE Helpline: 1800 187 263 

SANE Australia is a national mental health charity working to support four million Australians affected by complex mental illness. SANE’s work includes mental health awareness, online peer support and information, stigma reduction, specialist helpline support, research and advocacy.

Mensline Australia (24 hours): 1300 78 99 78       https://mensline.org.au/     

MensLine Australia is a telephone and online counselling service for men with family and relationship concerns. We’re here to help anywhere, anytime

Northern Territory Services -

Anglicare NT  
Open Monday to Friday 8.30am – 5pm  
5 Nemarluk Drive, Ludmilla  
Darwin and Palmerston services  
PO Box 36506  
Winnellie NT 0821  
 
Email  reception@anglicare-nt.org.au

Anglicare NT Reconnect Services  
 
Darwin - PH (08) 89850000 Fax: 08) 8985 0001  
Palmerston - PH (08) 89327850 Fax: (08) 89323301  
Nhulunbuy- PH (08) 89873022 Fax: (08) 89973011  
 
Waltja Reconnect central offices:  
 
Alice Springs 8953 4488  

 

                              Australian Homicide and Victim Support Groups 

NSW Victims Services

https://www.victimsservices.justice.nsw.gov.au/

Victims Access Line 1800 633 063

NSW - Support After Murder Australia - contact Peter Rolfe pprolfe15@gmail.com   0415 619 590

https://www.facebook.com/Queensland-Homicide-Victims-Support-Group-248585021827116/

http://qhvsg.org.au/

Queensland Homicide Victims’ Support Group’s (QHVSG) foundations have been built on passion, enthusiasm for change, commitment to cause, and the altruistic nature of its Management Committee, Staff and Volunteers. These characteristics have allowed QHVSG to develop a high quality and personalised support service to nearly 150 new families each year who experience first-hand the devastating effects of homicide.

Crime Victims Support Association

https://www.facebook.com/groups/237663582945937/

Run by Noel McNamamara. This page is for victims of homicide families, victims of extreme violence, and supporters of C.V.S.A

 NSW - Homicide Victims’ Support Group (Aust) Inc was formed in 1993 to provide support, counselling and information for families and friends affected by homicide in NSW.

Phone : 02 8274 8900 or 1800 191 777 E Mail - info@hvsgnsw.org.au     http://www.hvsgnsw.org.au/

Victoria Homicide Support - http://www.vhvsg.websyte.com.au/

Victoria Victims of Crime - https://www.victimsofcrime.vic.gov.au/

The Victorian Government’s Victims of Crime Helpline offers information, advice and support for you and your family. Contacting the helpline is the first step to get free services to help you manage the effects of crime.

The helpline provides:

• advice about reporting a crime
• information about the legal process, including after the offender is in jail
• help applying for compensation and financial assistance
• connections to other support services, such as the Victims Assistance Program.

South Australia -  Homicide Victim Support Group of SA inc

https://www.facebook.com/Homicide-Victim-Support-Group-of-SA-inc-1442218882717583/

Meetings held at Wakefield Hotel, 76 Wakefield St, Adelaide (city) on the first Wednesday of the month (except Dec/Jan) at 6.30pm (1,538.67 km)
5000 Adelaide, South Australia   Phone 0423 411 055

Useful SA resources: 
Attorney General's Department - Crown Solicitor's Office 
Tel 08 8207 1555

Crisis Care: Tel. 131 611

Director of Public Prosecution: (DPP) 
(Witness Assistance Service) 
Tel. 08 8207 1529

State Coroner's Office: 
302 King William Street, Adelaide 
Tel. 08 8204 0600

Victim Support Service Inc
Phone (08) 8231 5626
Toll Free 1800 182 368
Fax (08) 8231 5458
Email info@victimsa.org
www.victimsa.org

11 Halifax Street, Adelaide 

http://www.victimsa.org/ - Victim Support Service (VSS) provides free and confidential help to adult victims of crime, witnesses, their family, and friends across South Australia. We work in partnership with other organisations, we are not a government agency or part of the police and you don't have to report a crime to get our help. It doesn’t matter where the crime happened and you can call us any time after the crime, whether it was yesterday, last week or several years ago.

AUSTRALIAN CAPITAL TERRITORY

Victim Support ACT
Phone (02) 6205 2066
Toll Free 1800 822 272
Email victimsupport@act.gov.au

Victims of Crime Coordinator’s Office
Phone (02) 6205 2066
Toll free 1800 822 272
Email vocc@act.gov.au

Australian Federal Police
Victim Liaison Officers
Phone (02) 6245 7441
Fax (02) 6245 7266

NORTHERN TERRITORY

Victims of Crime NT
Phone (08) 8941 0995
Toll Free 1800 672 242
Fax (08) 8941 0459
www.victimsofcrime.org.au

Witness Assistance Service (Alice Springs)
Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions
Phone (08) 8951 5800
Fax (08) 8951 5812

Witness Assistance Service (Darwin)
Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions
Phone (08) 9835 7500
Toll Free 1800 659 449
Fax (08) 9835 7552 

TASMANIA

Victims Assistance Unit
Department of Justice
Phone (03) 6233 5002
Toll Free 1300 663 773
Fax (03) 6233 4031
Email victims@justice.tas.gov.au
www.justice.tas.gov.au

Victims of Crime Service
Toll Free 1300 300 238 
(If phoned within Tasmania will divert to closest office)

• Burnie
  Phone (03) 6434 6471
• Devonport
  (03) 6424 9377
• Hobart
  Phone (03) 6228 7628
• Launceston
  Phone (03) 6334 1665

Launceston Community Legal Centre
Victims of Crime Service
Ground Floor, Henty House
Phone (03) 6334 1665
Fax (08) 6334 8392

                                                Parental Abduction

http://www.childrecoveryaustralia.com/

Fantastic resource both for information about what to do in the event of a parental abduction and an agency that may be able to recover your parentally abducted child. One of the very few agencies I will personally vouch for.

https://www.hcch.net/en/instruments/conventions/specialised-sections/child-abduction

Parental Child Abduction section of The Hague Convention - what happens if your child is taken overseas.

Adoption

http://www.jigsaw.org.au/how-do-i-begin/south-australia/

http://www.smarttraveller.gov.au/

Australian Government website that has information about travel worldwide and also provides the facility to register your travel plans with them in case something happens and you go missing, it makes it easier to find you.

                                International Missing Person and Homicide Organisations

http://www.redcross.org.au/ - The Australian Red Cross.

https://www.redcross.org.au/get-help/help-for-migrants-in-transition/tracing-and-restoring-family-links

THE CHARLEY PROJECT

http://www.charleyproject.org/ - Profiles of over 6000 "cold case" missing people mainly from the United States, outstanding site.

http://www.doenetwork.org/ - International centre for unidentified and missing persons, based in the USA. Excellent resource for cold cases.

Porchlight International for the Missing and Unidentified

 https://porchlightonline.org/

http://www.missingkids.com/ - National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (USA)

http://www.khaosanroad.com/ - Excellent website for travel information to Bangkok, Thailand. Includes comprehensive section on tourists missing in Thailand - https://www.khaosanroad.com/missing-persons/

https://www.lonelyplanet.com/thorntree/welcome

If you're searching for a missing traveller, anywhere in the world, this is a great resource - an online community of travellers who can check locally for you.

                                                Other sites of interest

http://velvetprincess78.tripod.com/index.html - Velvet's Police Memorial Site, in honour of all Police that have been killed and injured on and off the job, a very moving and comprehensive site.