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Helping people to help themselves recover from addiction

SHARC supports over 9000 individuals and families annually and our programs and services operate locally, across Victoria, and increasingly, nationally. 

Peer support and lived experience are central to our work. 

We provide telephone and online support, education programs, counselling, peer support groups, residential recovery, consumer representation and workforce training.

If you are looking for support for yourself, or for your family, friends or community; or to enhance your work with others – SHARC can help.

APSU

Have your voice heard. Make your experience count.
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Family Drug & Gambling Help

Help to cope with a loved one’s drug use or gambling.
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Peer Projects

Support and development for the lived experience workforce.
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Residential Peer Programs

Support to help you on your recovery journey.
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Your organisation provides an incredible service, I did the training at Regen and have called your helpline on a number of occasions. Thanks for everything you are doing, especially during these difficult times.
Helpline caller
We talk of you often, and how much it meant to us to have something to go to and the support and knowledge we received when we really needed it.
Family Support Group member
As proud parents of our son who is now 24 years old we send you our sincere appreciation for all the support and guidance given to him this past year of residence with SHARC.
Parents of RSS resident
Hi all at Sharc, Just a short note of appreciation of the wonderful work you guys are doing with your online updates, zoom meetings during these unusual times.
APSU member
It turned my life around after realising we were babying our son. Things have been so different since that. It has changed everything
InFocus participant
Week one, family members all come in very serious with no smiling. By week 3 they are greeting each other like friends. They talk to each other without fear of judgement or ridicule of some of the things they have done in the road to helping their loved one. There are so many stories I could tell of the growth within the families throughout the course.
InFocus participant
After a horrible time with his 18yr old son homeless, ice addicted, suicide attempts. Dad did the InFocus program, and then joined the Family support group for six months. Fast forward to now. The son is clean, home, working fulltime and totally engaged with the family.
InFocus facilitator
We had tried for ages to get support to help us with issues with our son. SHARC and FDGH is the only place we have actually been able to get help. All of the FDGH programs have been really useful and the best way for me to describe it is that we are both now feeling really strengthened.
Con and Alex, parents
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SHARC News

TLC Participants Announced

TLC Participants Announced Eleven Victorian organisations have been selected to participate in what is believed to be Australia’s first Lived and Living Experience Workforce (LLEW)

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23 December 2024

New: SHARC Annual Report 23/24

Annual Report 2024 View online New: SHARC’s Annual Report 23/24  SHARC’s Annual Report 23/24 is now available online! This year, our theme, the Fibonacci Sequence,

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25 November 2024

SHARC Events

Now open: Regina Brindle Grant Program 2024 – 2025

The Regina Brindle Grant Program honours Regina Brindle’s significant contributions to promoting consumer voices in the alcohol and other drug (AOD) and mental health and wellbeing (MHW) sectors in Victoria.

Each year, APSU awards a grant of up to $5,000 to a project that elevates consumers’ voices and/or supports community connectedness and engagement.

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Lived and Living Experience at Heart (LLEAH)

Lived and Living Experience at Heart, or LLEAH, is an organisational support program for Victoria’s mental health and alcohol and other drug (AOD) sectors.

To learn more, click below.

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Volunteer with SHARC

Volunteering at SHARC is a wonderful way to make a difference. All our volunteers are treated with respect and gratitude for their contribution and are engaged in work that is safe, significant, meaningful and fulfilling.

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