Family Relationships Counselling provides counselling to adults, young people, couples, and their children at all stages of the relationship cycle including pre-marriage, marriage (including de facto relationships), separation, divorce and remarriage. Counselling supports the target group to establish and maintain valued family relationships as well as counselling about the care, welfare and development of children of the relationship. 

Disability Services

Respite services aim to strengthen and maintain the primary care relationships between a frail older person or a younger person with a disability and their carers through the provision of flexible and responsive alternatives to the usual care arrangements. Respite services provide meaningful and positive activities and experiences for individuals with a disability. 

Flexible Respite is a service that offers a combination of own home, centre-based, host family and peer support respite and includes day outings and camping trips. Adults and children can access a range of respite care activities including:

·        In-home care at regular and planned times by paid staff. This can be varied according to need and circumstance.

·        Individual out-of-home care by paid staff for recreation activity e.g. taking the young person to the movies, etc.

·        Support with transport and participation in mainstream social activity.

·        Family Holidays – providing a carer to accompany the family.

·        Out of Home community activities including: integration into mainstream youth centre activities. 

A number of Flexible Respite packages are targeted at ageing parent carers who provide primary care to their son or daughter with a disability. These packages can be accessed by parent carers aged 65 and over, and Indigenous parent carers aged 45 and over. The service aims to provide a break for ageing parent carers, and meaningful and positive activities and experiences for individuals with a disability. 

Employment Services

The Personal Support Programme (PSP) is designed to help people on Centrelink benefits who have personal issues that make it difficult for them to comply with Centrelink requirements to stay connected to the economic and social life of the community.

Some people in complex and difficult circumstances find it hard to get a job or benefit from employment assistance programmes. PSP is a bridge between short-term crisis services and employment assistance programmes like Job Network. 

Pregnancy Counselling

The Pregnancy Counselling program provides crisis telephone and face-to-face counselling for women of all ages and their significant others (including partners, parents and grandparents) around pregnancy issues. The program assists young women and their partners by helping provide ante-natal classes and support following the birth of their child, or a termination or miscarriage. Also includes targeting of particular populations for more intensive intervention. 

Natural Family Planning

The Natural Fertility Service teaches the Sympto Thermal Method (STM) of Natural Family Planning. STM is a scientifically based Natural Fertility Method that is simple to learn and highly effective whether it is used to conceive a pregnancy or avoid a pregnancy. Natural Fertility Services can be accessed by:

·        Women with regular or irregular menstrual cycles.

·        Women breast feeding or weaning.

·        Couples having trouble conceiving.

·        Couples trying to avoid a pregnancy.

·        Peri-menopausal women. 

Supervised Contact

The purpose of the Supervised Contact program is to provide a safe and secure environment for children and young people in care to have contact with their parents and significant other, while ensuring that the best interests of the child are maintained. The program services the entire Broken Bay region and contact visits take place in various locations throughout the community as determined by the referring body, DoCS. Contact visits also occur in Wyong, Gosford and Naremburn Family Centres.