Recover Australia recognise that the GLBTI communities are not a homogenous group, this meaning the GLBTI are not uniform in their experiences or lifestyles and many GLBTI people lead healthy, connected and positive lives. 

We acknowledge that if we where to only to document and discuss the poorer health and wellbeing outcomes of the GLBTI communities we would run the risk of pathologising and victimising them. 

Recover Australia does not believe that being GLBTI is a risk factor for poor health and wellbeing. The stigma and discrimination that GLBTI people face however can trigger and compound risk factors such as drug and alcohol use, violence, isolation, high rates of depression, homelessness, unsafe sex practices and exposure to sexually transmitted disease such as Hepatitis C and HIV. 

Recover Australia are committed to proving GLBTI inclusive services and will be offering some GLBTI exclusive services within our Recovery Centre.

All of our current services are open to any person regardless of sexual identity however we acknowledge that some issues experienced with the GLBTI community are specific to that group and therefore will be offering some GLBTI exclusive services.

We are committed to delivering services to the highest standards and all of our mental health and allied partnerships have completed GLBTI sensitive training to ensure respectful and appropriate delivery of services. 

Recover Australia would like to receive expressions of interest off service users and health providers within the GBLTI community to sit on our steering committee to help us ensure the services we provide are what the community requires.

Please send an email, with a sort description of why you would like to be part of our steering group and we will contact you to discuss further and arrange a meeting time.

We aim to have the consumer steering committee meet on the last Friday of the month and would like expressions of interest before the 30th September 2011 with the first meeting held at the recovery centre Friday 28th October, 1-2.30pm

Please send emails to

Recover Australia will be updating our GBLTI service list within the next few weeks and this will include more in-depth information and staggered commencement dates for the new services briefly listed below

Support groups for Youth, New parents, Coming Out, Hearing Voices, CALD and GBLTI groups, transgender youth, family support programs, lesbian and bisexual postnatal depression group, young mum and lesbian mothers group, gay men's fathers group.

Suicide Prevention 

HIV counselling

Individual counselling services

Group therapy programs

Youth Services

Links

Rainbow Network Victoria is for anyone who works with same sex attracted or gender questioning young people in any setting. We provide free resources, training, enewsletters, networking events, advice and guidance.

Melbourne Genderqueer is social and peer support for people who don’t fit into the gender norms, the Gender Questioning, the Genderqueer and Transgender people just like you who need somewhere to go to feel accepted as human beings, with your gender as fluid as you wish. You’ll also find people who help and accept us for who we are.