Services
drummond street services provides a range of programs and services across a broad spectrum of areas.
Education/Training
This unit delivers a range of community education and psycho-educational groups, and parenting support programs including:
- Parenting & Relationship groups and education seminars
- Specific groups for women and men
- Specific groups for complex issues such as mental illness or drug and alcohol and their impact on families
- Specific groups for children and young people
- Parenting Support Program
Call Zoe on 9639 2576 for more information
Queer Community Programs
drummond street services is an organisation supportive and sensitive to LGBT issues. We are an “Approved Relationship Counselling Agency” which receives funding from the Federal Department of Family and Community Services to provide relationship counselling to people from diverse backgrounds.
CaLD Programs
This is the Intercultural Program at drummond street services. It provides an opportunity for you to explore the difficulties within your family relationships and constraints in adjusting to cross-cultural marriages.
Groups & Seminars
Some people like to attend groups and discuss the issues that are important to them with others going through similar experiences. Some people like to attend groups as a way of complimenting the work they are doing with counsellors individually or in a couple. Some people like group work because they enjoy getting together and meeting different people. Some people just want to try something new!
Relationship Counselling
Life and relationships can be hard work. People may access counselling at drummond street for the following difficulties:
- communication & interaction problems
- different belief systems & traditions
- intimacy & infidelity
- arguments and tension
- conflict or violence
- complex issues such as sexual abuse, mental health, problematic drug & alcohol use, gambling
- parenting & social roles
- work, life, family balance
Family Mental Health Support Service (FMHSS)
This service is aimed at supporting family members impacted by another’s mental health difficulties/illness. The term ‘family’ is taken in its broadest sense. The mental health issues present may be symptoms or diagnosed illnesses, including both high and low prevalence disorders.
Assistance for Stepfamilies
As Australia’s fastest growing family type, the Stepfamily has its own unique set of challenges. Many stepparents are thrown into a new parenting role with little experience to draw on and often feel overwhelmed and isolated.
Grief and loss issues may still reverberate in these families as the new person tries to fit in. Primary parents might feel guilty about the impact of the separation on their children and they can be concerned about their children feeling torn by loyalty conflicts.
They might experience it as a big challenge to share their time between their new partner, their children and stepchildren and their extended family.
For kids there could be normal transition challenges associated with separation or divorce, mixed in with worries about moving houses or schools coupled with a new family structure, alternating weekends or changes to holidays and rituals.
They might also get new stepsiblings or half siblings and could feel displaced or challenged in their wish for a secure position in their stepfamily.
Through it all many stepfamilies manage the transitions successfully and show remarkable resilience and good humour as they face an easier future down the track. Stepfamilies Australia are a National body now auspiced by drummond street and offering specialist counselling, group work opportunities for couples, resources and an excellent new website at www.stepfamily.org.au.
Call Kate M. on 9639 2576 for more information about our Stepfamilies resources and groups
Feel free to contact us any time for more information about any of the services we provide here at drummond street
