Parenting Support

Melaleuca Australia places great importance on creating workshops where families experience a supportive, nurturing and learning environment. Content is delivered in language or with interpreters present and covers a range of topics including:

• Positive parenting and care approaches
• Maintaining healthy family relationships
• Child protection
• Domestic Violence
• Managing Family Conflict
• Skills to develop respectful relationships

Health Support Services is a holistic program that enables people from refugee, humanitarian and migrant backgrounds to access specialised health and health-related services.

The program’s overall aim is to improve service delivery models by bringing together the highest quality professionals in the health field to better integrate overall services.

This program provides a wide range of support services for young people aged 12 – 21 years of age from refugee, humanitarian and migrant backgrounds who:

• have arrived in Australia in the previous five years on humanitarian and/or family visas; and
• are homeless or at risk of homelessness.

Reconnect Youth aims to assist young people to stabilise their living situation and improve their level of engagement with family, work, education, training and their local community.

Melaleuca Australia has been appointed and is funded by the Department of Social Services as a Specialist Service Provider to coordinate and deliver the program.

Central to our service delivery is a strong emphasis on culturally appropriate support strategies and the engagement of specialists to address the individual needs of our clients, such as mental health services.

The Melaleuca Australia Settlement Support Services program aims to equip and empower humanitarian entrants, other eligible permanent migrants and their communities to meet their settlement needs within their first five years within Australia.

The Program provides clients with settlement-related information, advice, advocacy and assistance to access mainstream and other relevant services. The key components include:

• Facilitating acquisition of English language skills
• Supporting engagement with education and training; and
• Building employment readiness

The Minyerri Playgroup is a service provided to families with children aged from 6 months to 5 years old.

It is a safe place for families to bring their children and engage in a various activity. Activities the children participate in are singing, dancing, painting, coloring, being read stories, playful art & craft and toy time. The children are provided a light morning tea and healthy cooked lunch.

There is no cost to families.

The Minyerri School Nutrition Program is funded by NIAA. There are 3 full-time staff employed who prepares fresh nutritional cooked & healthy cold meals for the students each school day. The program prepares, delivers and serve 3 meals per day: breakfast, morning tea and lunch. The average number of children in the program is 180 students.

NAPCAN’s strategy is to support and encourage changes in individual and community behaviour to stop child abuse and neglect before it starts by:

-Promoting quality child abuse prevention research

-Advocating for child safe policies and strategies

-Coordinating National Child Protection Week and promoting the Play Your Part strategy

-Demonstrating good practice

-Supporting the safety and wellbeing of children and young people

One Tree Community Services work with people and communities to transform challenges into possibilities. Our strength is providing services in rural and remote areas, or challenging environments.

We are a not-for-profit charity whose purpose is to advance education and social or public welfare. We provide early and middle childhood education and care (including out of school hours care), community services, professional support and training across Australia.

One Tree:

• builds resilient individuals, families and communities; and
• relieves suffering by providing support, services, management and learning opportunities for organisations and people, including those disadvantaged by poverty, violence, illness, location or lack of high-quality services.