This website is funded internally by SANE
Australia as part of its Community Education program, with support from
the Commonwealth Department of Health and Ageing for StigmaWatch, and
from the John T. Reid Charitable Trust and AstraZeneca for Helpline
Online.
All
medical information published by SANE Australia has been reviewed and
approved by appropriately qualified medical practitioners from the SANE Medical Advisory Panel,
unless otherwise stated. The SANE website is intended to provide general
information only, it does not provide specific advice, which should be
sought from an appropriately qualifed professional person.
This
website is free of all advertisements as a matter of policy. This
website is best viewed with Firefox 1.0.2 or above, at a resolution of
1024 x 768.
The SANE website has been voted 'Best Australian Community Website' for
2005 and 2006 in the NetGuide Web Awards. Judges noted the site's
superior content, navigation, function and design - 'a first rate
effort in promoting help and understanding for mental illness.'
This website has been approved by the HealthInsite Editorial Board to be a HealthInsite information partner site.
The
SANE website conforms to the Health On the Net Code with the provision of
authoritative, trustworthy web-based medical information. We subscribe
to the HONcode principles of the HON Foundation.
In 2003 SANE won the TheMHS Award for Exceptional Contribution to Mental Health Services in Australia or New Zealand.
In 2001 StigmaWatch won a Gold Award for the Best Mental Health
Promotion Program at the Australian and New Zealand Mental Health
Services (TheMHS) Conference.
