Centacare

Centacare’s Domestic and Family Violence Programs provide a range of services at two sites (Central Highlands and Rockhampton), which are outlined below.

Central Highlands

Centacare is funded by the Queensland Government’s Department of Communities to provide:

• information and referral
• crisis counselling
• court support
• community awareness
• training and workshops
• a resource library
• assistance with protection orders
• advocacy
• child and adolescent counselling

Short and medium term counselling and support services are available to children and young people who have been victims, witnesses or both to Domestic and Family Violence.

Outreach services for people escaping Domestic and Family Violence in the regional areas of Central Queensland communities are jointly funded by the Queensland Government’s Department of Communities and Xstrata.

Services delivered to Springsure, Capella, Clermont, Blackwater, Middlemount, Dysart and Tieri include:

• counselling
• personal support
• referral
• court support

Rockhampton

As part of the Queensland Government’s strategy to reduce domestic and family violence, known as ‘Breaking The Cycle’, Centacare provides Intensive Case Management to families in the Rockhampton region. This is a process designed to ensure that families who are struggling with complex challenges are able to access support. A case manager works with a family to support them to make changes across a range of issues with the aim of enabling them to cope with challenges as they arise and develop good support networks and links within their own communities.

Centacare delivers community talks, information sessions and presentations on child abuse issues to local organisations, services and community groups who may come into contact with children and families affected by child abuse in the Rockhampton City area.

A Child Abuse Prevention Library is also maintained, developed and promoted within the Central Queensland area so as to assist various client groups to access books, videos, programs and journals to further their awareness of child abuse in its various forms, as well as its effect, treatment and prevention.