We support people who are receiving, or at risk of receiving, compulsory mental health treatment. Compulsory mental health treatment means you will be given treatment even if you don’t want it. Learn more about the treatment criteria.
We can support you with information and advocacy to make decisions and have as much say as possible about your assessment, treatment and recovery.
Our advocates are on your side.
Our services
The services we provide:
- are independent, free and confidential
- appoint advocates in Bendigo, Broadmeadows, Dandenong, Frankston, Geelong, Melbourne, Ringwood, and Shepparton but support people across the whole of Victoria
- are essential in ensuring the delivery of the reforms and goals of the Mental Health and Wellbeing Act 2022.
To find out more about how we can support you, read the latest news and subscribe to our newsletter Advocacy Matters.
You can also read more about our role as part of the Mental Health and Wellbeing Act:
Your rights as a client of our service
Find out more about:
You can also learn about your rights when you are on a compulsory treatment order.
Our funding
We are funded by the Victorian Department of Health, but operate independently of government.
We are a service delivered by Victoria Legal Aid. However, we are not a legal service.
Read more about our relationship with Victoria Legal Aid.
Information for services
If you are a mental health service provider, you can refer people to the us via by:
- phone: by calling us on 1300 947 820 between 9.30 am and 4.30 pm seven days a week
- email via contact@imha.vic.gov.au
- using our online contact form
You can also download our factsheet:
Contact us
Find out how to contact us if you:
- have a general enquiry
- have feedback
- have hearing or speech or language difficulties
- want to speak to us in your language.
We also have resources in your language.
More information
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