Specialist Rural Programs

Some of the previous programs include:

• Seminars on domestic violence (Family Violence Prevention) in regional centres including: Port Hedland, Kalgoorlie, Alice Springs, Cairns, Bathurst, Launceston, Hobart and Geelong.
• Support services for the Wheatbelt (pdf) - free counselling, information and community education seminars in response to the extreme drought in the Wheatbelt, Western Australia.
• Email support group for parents of children with ADD or ADHD living in isolated rural communities, led by Relationships Australia Western Australia in partnership with Reconnect. ADD Support, Website Links & Research
• Drought support program delivered in NSW, including support groups, camps and seminars in Broken Hill and Cobar.
• Free counselling for drought-affected farmers offered by Relationships Australia Canberra & Region at Hay, Hillston, Barellan, Ardlethan, and Ariah Park.
• Drought arts program run by Relationships Australia Victoria in Shepparton fostering community connectedness and awareness of counselling and available support.
• Peer support training by Relationships Australia South Australia in drought-declared areas of Central North East Pastoral District of South Australia
• National suicide prevention strategy, providing support to separated and divorced men at high risk of suicide in rural areas such as Alice Springs, Palmerston, Katherine and Tennant Creek.
• Grandparents support group, run by Relationships Australia Victoria in partnership with Parentzone and the Gippsland Women’s Health Service
• Services to rural and remote Indigenous people, run by Relationships Australia South Australia
• Reconnect program, providing services to youth in danger of homelessness in rural Tasmania
  

Contact your nearest Relationships Australia office or phone us on 1300 364 277 to find out if there are any specialist programs underway in your region or planned for the future.