Life challenges can present relationship difficulties and other issues which require adjusting to new circumstances. Centacare provides confidential counselling support to individuals, couples, families and children. Our emphasis is on safe and respectful family interactions while maintaining a child focus. Family Dispute Resolution provides mediation as an alternative way to resolving disputes and can avoid the financial and emotional costs of legal action. Our accredited Family Dispute Resolution Practitioners guide the process of discussion and facilitate those in dispute to reach their own agreements. Centacare delivers Relationship Education across metropolitan Adelaide. We support couples to build strong, healthy relationships and assist parents and children to navigate each stage of child development. Education includes workshops, courses, and group work. Sometimes it just helps to have a friendly face to talk to. Counselling with Centacare is just that – our qualified counselling team is both professional and caring. They listen and advise. Family Connections provides free family-friendly playgroups, activities, workshops and other support to families of children aged up to 12 years living in the South-East. Family Preservation works with families to address safety concerns and increase parenting capacity. Families of children aged up to 18 years who are experiencing challenges in their lives are supported to address lifestyle and other factors affecting the ability to parent. This program offers supported accommodation to young families up to the age of 25 years, who are pregnant or parenting and are homeless or are at-risk of homelessness but who have low need support requirements. Support is provided on a one-on-one basis and families are connected with local community services as required. Access programs is a social enterprise of Centacare and specialises in the provision of Employee Assistance Programs (EAP) and other workplace mental health services. Services are provided on a fee for service basis and include confidential counselling, critical incident debriefing, conflict resolution, training and management coaching. Dad’s Business delivers a range of fathering activities in the Playford area in a no-pressure environment. Young dads meet with a skilled male worker to discuss their expectations, hopes, anxieties and build their knowledge around birth and early childhood development. Fathers and Families provides activity-based educational opportunities and support for dads and families with children aged up to 12 years. Through group and individual sessions, fathers are supported to grow their parenting capacity and play an active and meaningful role in their child’s life. Centacare’s Outer North Youth Homelessness Service provides case management, early intervention, outreach, post-crisis and wait-list support to young people aged 15-25 years old who are homeless or at risk of homelessness. Whyalla Generic Homelessness Service (Youth Focus) provides supported transitional and crisis accommodation and other related services including information, advocacy and referral to individuals, couples and families who are homeless or at risk of homelessness. The Wandana Community Centre is run for and by the community at Gilles Plains in Adelaide’s north. Respecting people from a diversity of backgrounds, cultures, ages and gender, the Centre fosters and encourages personal growth and lifelong learning.Counselling – Family Relationships
Family Dispute Resolution
Relationship Education
Counselling Services
Family Connections
Family Preservation Service
Findon Family Housing
ACCESS Programs
Dad’s Business
Fathers and Families
Outer North Youth Homelessness Service
Whyalla Generic Homelessness Service (YOUTH FOCUS) Program
Wandana Community Centre