Centacare Tasmania - Employment & Training Services


Centacare Employment Services Launceston
Launceston
General Manager
Kris Todman
email: kris.todman@aohtas.org.au
telephone:
(03) 6332 0600
facsimile:
(03) 6334 3758

 

Centacare Employment Services Devonport
Devonport
Manager
Mr Steve Leatherbarrow
email: steve.leatherbarrow@aohtas.org.au
telephone:
(03) 6423 1218
facsimile:
(03) 6423 1330

 

Centacare Employment Services Ulverstone
Ulverstone
Coordinator        
Ms Sandra Lancaster
email: sandra.lancaster@aohtas.org.au
telephone:
(03) 6490 8700
facsimile:
(03) 6425 9526

 

Centacare Employment Services Burnie
Burnie
Coordinator
  Ms Kelli Radford
email: kelli.radford@aohtas.org.au
telephone:
(03) 6440 3600
facsimile:
(03) 6432 4151

 

 

Centacare Tasmania - Welfare Services

WELFARE SERVICES

Centacare delivers a broad range of specialised and professional support, counselling, accommodation, emergency, advocacy, education and training services throughout Tasmania.
Its particular strength is in the family centred approach, recognising that whatever impacts on a family impacts on the children in specific ways. It recognises that children can be major casualties in family disruption and that listening to the voice of children impacts on the long-term consequence for all involved in resolving family conflict.
Services are available to all without discrimination on the basis of age, gender, race religion, physical disability, marital or social status.

Family & Relationship Counselling (State wide)
FRC offers counselling to families, couples, individuals and children who may be experiencing relationship difficulties or the impact of family separation. The service aims to improve the quality of their relationships and family life.
 
Specialised Domestic Violence Service (South)
This is a family service for couples who are dealing with issues related to controlling, fighting, violent and abusive behaviours in their relationship. The service provides help for all the family through services which focus on the needs of each family member. This includes individual counselling and the opportunity to participate in group programs for men, women and children. Each family member has their own worker for individual work and group programs. The counselling and group work focuses on the issues identified by the family and the assessment team.

Changing Abusive Behaviour (CAB) (State wide)
Is an educational program for men who have been angry, aggressive or abusive toward their partners and have acted in ways that have frightened and/or hurt their partners & children. CAB is for men who want to do something about their behaviour and learn more positive and respectful ways of relating in their families.

Children’s Services (state wide)
Offers a counselling program for children acknowledging that children communicate
differently to adults and utilising art, play and sand-trays to assist children to communicate their feelings and experiences and advocate them to their parents.

CKC offers a 10 week group program for children and their parent who have experienced family violence. The aim of this program is to assist women and children in a safe environment to recover from the trauma they have experienced.

Kids’ Express offers an 8 week group program that helps children understand, manage and express strong emotion. For children aged 6 – 11.

Family Relationship Education & Skills Training (State wide)
fre.centacare@aohtas.org.au
FREST provides group programs and individual couple sessions for couples preparing to marry. Programs are also available for couples and families wanting to strengthen and enrich their relationship.

Communities for Children - Burnie (North West)
Centacare is the Facilitating Partner for the Burnie & surrounds site of the C4C initiative of the Stronger Families & Communities Strategy. In this role, Centacare will drive and manage a community development approach to improve outcomes for young children (0-5yrs) within the local community.

Family & Child Mediation (North West)
Offers a mutual problem solving service to both parties in separation to facilitate them in making their own agreements about the future of their children, property and finances. This is an objective service which explores solutions for separating couples.

Family Dispute Resolution (North West)
FDR offers a counselling, mediation and conciliation service to families in dispute. It facilitates client generated solutions and/or assists in the legal process to avoid lengthy litigation.

Family Life Education (State wide)
fle@aohtas.org.au
Program designed to:

Natural Family Planning (NFP) (State wide)
nfp@aohtas.org.au
A counselling and educative service for couples wanting to receive information and support in relation to their decision to use natural methods to avoid or achieve pregnancy.

Adoption (State wide)
Tasmania’s only non-government Adoption Service providing a comprehensive counselling, support and placement & information service to adoptive parents, relinquishing parents and adoptees.

Centacare Transitional Support Service (CTSS) (North & South)
Offers support to individuals, couples or families with issues relating to homelessness and re-establishment of independent living. Referring sources for these clients are shelter based.

Private Residential Tenancy Support Service (PRTSS) (State wide)
In partnership with The Salvation Army, provides tenancy support and education to tenants on low incomes who are living within the private rental market and assists them to sustain their tenancies.

C.H.I.L.D (Children & Homelessness, Intervention, Learning and Development) (Statewide)
A 2-year pilot program funded through SAAP.  The core focus of this program is supporting children in families who are homeless.  Referrals are received only from SAAP services and each child is supported in a case management approach which provides holistic support in the family context; advocates as is relevant on the child’s behalf; provides opportunities for families to increase their parenting capacity  and liaises with schools, health professionals, sporting groups, community networks and family to improve child outcomes.

Family Support Programs (South)

A group for women over 21 who are parenting to assist them to develop further life skills, support networks and resources.

Group program for women under 21 to provide information and education about pregnancy and to offer support and assistance after the birth of their children.

To provide a residential program for families. The focus is on establishing healthy parent/child relationships enabling children to reach their full potential emotionally, physically and developmentally. It also assists in the development of life skills for parents.

Provides support to children and families referred by the Child Protection Advice and Referral Service.  This program aims to ensure that vulnerable children, young people and their families have the opportunity to engage in whatever support they need to reduce the risk of entering the statutory Child protection system.

Offered to individuals and/or groups, Triple P promotes good communication and strong relationships between parents and children. This positive approach to parenting helps parents promote their children’s development and manage their children’s behaviour in a constructive and caring way. Triple P helps parents recognise causes of common child behaviour problems and encourage desirable behaviour in their children. A variety of programs are available, depending on parents’ and children’s needs.

Personal Support Program (PSP) (State wide)
PSP is a Federal Government program aimed at assisting unemployed people (mainly receiving Newstart) whose severe and multiple barriers to work prevent them benefiting from mainstream employment services in the regular Job Network. Individual case-management over a 2 year period aims at assessing and addressing non-vocational barriers to work.
Typically, these include homelessness, substance abuse, mental health problems like depression or post traumatic stress disorder, literacy difficulties, learning and intellectual compromises, legal or prison related barriers, health concerns, family & relationship issues and other similar challenges.

Integrated Humanitarian Support Service (IHSS) (South)
The Centacare IHSS program is funded by the Department of Immigration, Multicultural and Indigenous Affairs (DIMIA) to provide settlement services to refugee families and individuals allocated to the Hobart area.
The aim of the program is to provide a six month holistic case-management service that addresses the ongoing individual settlement needs of each family using a strengths based solution focused model of family intervention.

Settlement Grants Program (South)
This program is a case management service providing information, referral, casework and advocacy services to individuals and families who are exiting the IHSS program after 6 months and who are still struggling with day to day issues.  It aims to enable clients to become self sufficient in the longer term in accessing mainstream agencies that meet their individual and collective settlement needs.

This weekly program teaches Sudanese women sewing and craftwork as well as helping the women to understand the English language.
 

 

Director Welfare Services :
Mrs Georgina McLagan
Email:
 
Head Office :
35 Tower Road, New Town  7008 P.O. Box 369, Moonah, Tas. 7009
Telephone:
(03) 6278 1660
Facsimile:
(03) 6278 1005
Email:
 
Launceston Office
13a Brisbane Street, Launceston 7250
Telephone:
(03) 6331 9253
Facsimile:
(03) 6331 2873
Email:
 
Burnie Office
108 Mount Street, Burnie  7320
Telephone:
(03) 6431 8555
Facsimile:
(03) 6431 8114
Email:
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