Do you need urgent help or advice?
If you’re in trouble and need urgent help, please find the best number to call from the following list of emergency contacts. We have also listed services that can provide legal and tenancy advice. If you are Link Wentworth tenant and require an urgent repair, visit our repair page.
Call 13 14 50 for the Translating and Interpreting Service (If you have trouble speaking English, ask them to contact any of the numbers below to interpret for you).
Emergency accommodation
If you are experiencing homelessness and need emergency accommodation, please contact Link2Home on 1800 152 152.
Learn more about how we can support you.
General emergencies
Life-Threatening Emergency
- Call 000 (If you are hearing/speech impaired use TTY: 106)
General help in a flood or storm
- Call 132 500 for the NSW State Emergency Service (SES)
Bushfires
- Call 1800 679 737 for the NSW Rural Fire Service (RFS)
- See the NSW Fire and Rescue website for more information
Disaster Welfare Assistance Line
- Call 1800 018 444
Counterterrorism
- Call 1800 1234 00 for the National Security Hotline
Poisons Information Centre (24/7)
Crime, law, and order
- For non-urgent assistance, call the Police Assistance Line on 131 444
- To report information about crime anonymously call Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000
Personal assistance
Lifeline (24/7)
Lifeline Northern Beaches directory of local men’s support groups
Kids Helpline (24/7)
Child Protection Helpline
- Call 13 2111
Victims Access Line
Domestic Violence Crisis Line (24/7)
NSW Rape Crisis (24/7)
National Sexual Assault Domestic & Family Violence Counselling Line
- Call 1800 737 732 (1800 RESPECT)
Women’s Domestic Violence Court Advocacy Service (WDVCAS)
Coronavirus (COVID-19)
- Call the COVID-19 Triage Hotline 1800 020 080 or click here for more information.
- COVID-19 vaccine eligibility checker website
Mental Health Lines
- Mental Health Line on 1800 011 511
- MensLine Australia on 1300 789 978
- Suicide Call Back Service on 1300 659 467
- Beyond Blue on 1300 224 636
- Headspace on 1800 650 890
- ReachOut
- Care Leavers Australasia Network (CLAN) on 1800 008 774
- If you are an Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander and need support, please visit Wellmob, a social, emotional, and cultural wellbeing resource that may be able to help.
- Brother to Brother supports Aboriginal men during COVID-19. Their crisis number is 1800 435 799
Help in your local area
- Ask Izzy for help with housing, a meal, money help, family violence support, counseling and much more by local area at askizzy.org.au
Legal and tenant advice
NSW Fair Trading
LawAccess NSW Line
Western Sydney Tenants’ Service
Blue Mountains Tenancy Advice and Advocacy Service
South West Tenants’ Advice Service
Northern Sydney Area Tenants’ Service
Greater Sydney Aboriginal Tenants’ Service
Link Wentworth wishes to acknowledge the Traditional Custodians of the Land on which we work and pay our respect to the Elders past, present and emerging, and extend that respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.