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This is a pilot project support by an Australian Government Initiative through the Mental Health Community Based Program, Mental Health Branch of FaHCSIA.
AIMS:
- To support families impacted by mental health issues to build up their resilience and improve their coping strategies.
- To reduce the incidence of associated family breakdown.
- To assist client families to access community and service supports by working closely with some of Centacare Fraser Coast’s existing programs
- Responsive Connections
- Positive Pathways
- Crisis Housing
- Family and Relationship Services
- Also working collegially with the Integrated Mental Health Service and other local service providers as required.
- To support and educate around issues of managing responses to a family member with a mental illness.
- To Increase the community’s awareness of mental illness.
- To improve the community’s capacity to understand and respond to families who are impacted by mental illness.
APPROACH
Our approach is one of early Intervention and Prevention:
We offer strengths based, recovery focused, holistic, Integrated Case Management framework (ICM). We will work with the clients to identify their strengths, supports and needs. We then aim to build upon the family’s inherent strengths.
We offer intake and assessment, information and referral where necessary, support, counselling and education and skills training.
We offer support in the Wider Wide Bay – Burnett regions, reaching as far south as Cooloola Shire, as far East as Eidsvold Shire and as far North as Miriam Vale Shire.
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