Service summary

Call QLife on 1800 184 527

QLife provides anonymous LGBTQ+ peer support and referral for people wanting to talk about a range of issues including sexuality, identity, gender, bodies, feelings, or relationships.

QLife services are free and include both telephone and webchat support for LGBTQ+ individuals, their friends and families, and health professionals in Australia.

REBUILD is a free, voluntary, peer-led aftercare program that supports people who have experienced a suicide attempt or suicidal crisis.

The program is available to people aged 16 years and over. Young people aged 14 -15 years may also be eligible with informed consent and appropriate support arrangements in place.

The program combines lived experience peer support with care coordination to help people stay safe, address situational stressors contributing to distress, and connect with practical, health, social, and community-based supports.

REBUILD hubs are located in:

• Nowra
• Goulburn

Learn more about the Universal Aftercare services available throughout South Eastern NSW.

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The RESET Program provides individual AOD support, helping young people to reach their recovery goals.

Provided by mission Australia, this program supports young people 12 - 24 years who are experiencing unstable housing, socioeconomically disadvantage in contact with the criminal justice and or at risk of substance abuse.

SANE Australia provide 24 hour access to online forums and peer support regarding life's difficulties.

You can chat with others in similar situations including lived experience or friends, family and carers forums.

Social Rx is a short-term program designed to link you to locally available support services and community-based resources using a social prescribing approach.

Primary and Community Care Services (PCCS) can help you to tackle the non-medical barriers to your health and wellbeing, issues such as housing, social and community networks, family relationships and other socioeconomic factors that you and your doctor cannot address alone.

They work with you to identify meaningful goals and a personalised plan to meet these needs while reducing isolation and disadvantage.

Ask your GP or health provider about this program and for a referral or reach out to Social RX for more information and to discuss access to the program.

The South Coast Medical Service Aboriginal Corporation (SCMSAC) is an Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisation (ACCHO) providing health and health-related services relevant to the wellbeing and to the benefit of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities throughout the Shoalhaven.

The SCMSAC operates out of 8 sites providing holistic primary health care and other health-related services including improving the equity of access to mainstream services for the Aboriginal communities in the Shoalhaven.

Located at Milton Medical Centre, specially trained staff provide assessment, diagnosis, treatment, education, and support for people living with symptoms of perimenopause, menopause, endometriosis, and other causes of pelvic pain or dysfunction. 

Patients have access to a multidisciplinary team including doctors, a specialist nurse, as well as an on-site pelvic physiotherapist and dietitian. The team offer holistic care in a safe and inclusive environment. 

Patients have access to online education sessions relevant to their health needs, provided by a physiotherapist, dietitian, sexologist, psychologist, as well as a yoga and meditation instructor. 

As a consultative and support service, the clinic works alongside patients and their regular GP, who remains responsible for ongoing care and treatment. 

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The St Vincent’s Hospital Sydney (SVHS) Chronic Pain Service provides an Outreach Chronic Pain Management Education and Service for the Southern NSW catchment area.

The outreach service provides telehealth, multidisciplinary support and outreach site visits for clinical service delivery and clinician training and education.

This service is a collaboration between the SVHS Pain Team, COORDINARE, and the SNSW LHD.

“Keep The Family Spirit Strong, Yarn About Your Wellbeing”

Strong Foundations is a school-based program designed to support the social and emotional wellbeing of Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander students aged 8 – 13 within the Shoalhaven region of NSW.

The program includes group sessions, individual counselling, and community education, with the aim of raising awareness of mental health wellbeing, encouraging help seeking behaviours, increasing resilience and building stronger communities.

Strong Foundations uses a tailored approach for each group session, incorporating outdoor group activities as well as cultural themed arts and craft.

The program covers topics including:

Positive Thinking, Physical Wellbeing, Building Support Pathways, Understanding Self, Others and Culture, Cultural Identity, Help Seeking, Positive Self Esteem, and Communicating With Others.

Strong Yawa provides an after hours support line for Aboriginal women and children, delivered by Waminda.

Available after 5pm, all calls are confidential and will be treated with respect.

Call the Suicide Call Back Service on 1300 659 467. Suicide Call Back Service offers free professional 24/7 telephone counselling support to people at risk of suicide, concerned about someone at risk, bereaved by suicide and people experiencing emotional or mental health issues.

This training program is for Residential Aged Care onsite staff and clinicians working inside aged care homes.

This includes doctors, nurses, specialists, managers, personal care workers and other staff working in residential aged care settings.

Please reach out to COORDINARE’s Digital Health Team for more information about the Residential Aged Care Homes training package or click on the link below to learn more.

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