Service Provider Details
ARAFMI Hunter
| Service Provider Type: | Community Organisation/NGO |
| Address: | 15 Church St NEWCASTLE 2300 NSW |
| Directions: | Local buses and trains all terminate in Newcastle City. |
| Mailing Address: | 15 Church St NEWCASTLE 2300 NSW |
| Phone: | 02 4929 5894 |
| TTY Number: | |
| Fax Number: | 02 4926 1918 |
| Other Number: | 02 4926 1478 |
| HelpLine: | 1800 655 198 |
| email: | arafmihunter@exemail.com.au |
| website: | |
| Annual Membership Fees: | $22.00; concession $11.00 |
| Areas Serviced: | Hunter |
Services Offered
| Program | Program Description | Location |
| Assertiveness | Addresses the function of assertiveness in relationships. Focusses on goal setting, listening, handling difficulties and communication techniques. The effects of being assertive with a person with a mental illness are recognised. | Hunter. Other areas on request. |
| Counselling | Counselling to family members/carers | Newcastle |
| Information Pack | Information package | |
| Young Carers Workshop | Six-week program | Hunter |
| Coping with Christmas | Focusses on coping with Christmas stress. Addresses the potential stressors, issues for a person with dual diagnosis and coping strategies. | Hunter |
| Stress Management Workshop | Focusses on factors of stress, symptoms and sources of stress, awareness and coping strategies to assist carers. The workshop addresses particular values, beliefs and self-perceptions which may create or reduce stress. | Hunter. Other areas on request. |
| Carers Coping Skills | Designed to assist carers to gain understanding of how they can improve their coping skills. Will help to develop insight and strategies to improve their coping. | Hunter. Other areas on request. |
| Loss and Grief Workshop | Addresses specific losses that carers of someone with a mental illness may experience. Focusses on the carer's response to mental illness and the function of grieving. Includes ways of coping with loss and grief. | Hunter |
| Mental Health Staff Training | Regular inservices to mental health staff throughout the Hunter | Hunter. Other areas on request. |
| 8 Stages of Healing Program | This program, developed by Julie Tallard-Johnson, presents alternatives to common patterns of coping. It aims to teach behaviours deisgned to form mutually satisfying relationships with others including the person with a mental illness. | Hunter |
| Self Esteem Project | Programs to assist carers to become more self aware and to enhance their self esteem | Hunter. Other areas on request. |
| Information and Support Line | Telephone information, support and referral | available around NSW |