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Youth & Family
NRSDC coordinates a number of projects which focus on helping young people and young families. Two of these projects are focused on service delivery. Reconnect works with young people and their families to address potential homlessness. Family Planning provides a range of high quality, confidential and professional reproductive and sexual health services to people across the Northern Rivers.
  • Family Planning Service   ( 1 Article )

    Lismore & Kyolge Family Planning Service is a service of Northern Rivers Social Development Council and is supported by funding from North Coast Area Health Service and NSW Health. Lismore & Kyogle Family Planning Service provides a range of high quality, confidential and professional reproductive and sexual health services to people across the Northern Rivers. The Service provides a bulk billing service to clients seen by a doctor, clinical nurse consultations at no cost to the client and contraceptive items at cost price.


    We encourage and welcome young people, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and people on low incomes (eg. health care card) to utilise our service in Lismore or Kyogle.

  • Youth Programs   ( 6 Articles )


    Reconnect

    Reconnect is an Early Intervention Youth Homelessness Prevention Program funded by the Commonwealth Department of Family and Community Services under the auspices of the Northern Rivers Social Development Council. Covering the Northern Rivers Region from Tweed to Grafton, the service is aimed at 12 – 18 year old young people who are homeless or at risk of homelessness and their families.

    Assistance provided may include individual or family counselling, coaching, mentoring, mediation, the development of community supports, referral to other services and use of brokerage funds for specialised services or practical needs. Reconnect  also offers a variety of groups.  Our Case Workers will outreach where necessary.

    The service is flexible in supporting family reconciliation, access to accommodation, employment, education, training, life skills and personal development. The emphasis is on advocacy, empowerment and safety.   On average the service takes on about 200 new clients per year, as well as maintaining ongoing client relationships.

    The Northern Rivers Social Development Council Reconnect Service has five Case Managers conveniently located in offices in Lismore, Tweed Heads, Ballina, Casino and Grafton.


    Getting it Together

    Aims to help young people find opportunities for positive change in their life by:

    • the creation of ongoing positive family and community relationships
    • Building self esteem , personal growth and life skills
    • Addressing personal issues and health problems
    • Education on the impacts of alcohol and other drugs (AoD)
    • Promoting harm minimisation and AoD misuse reduction
    • Connecting young people to specialist services where appropriate

    Those eligible for the Getting it Together program are 12 - 18 year olds with Alcohol and/or other drug misuse or abuse issues and people who want information about Alcohol and or other Drugs.

    NRSDC Youth Programs values client privacy and self determination, to find out more just give us a call.


    Youth Programs Brochure

    Click the link below to download a brochure:

    icon NRSDC Youth Programs Brochure March 2009 (245.28 kB)


    Contacting NRSDC Youth Programs

    For all NRSDC Youth Program contact details, click here.


    Youth News

  • Rock & Water   ( 1 Article )