Summary of Services Commissioned

Counselling and mental health support for people living in Northern NSW residential aged care facilities.

Northern NSW

If someone requires care finder support, Lifetime Connect can connect them with a dedicated care finder.

Coffs Harbour, Bellingen, Nambucca LGAs

If someone requires care finder support, EACH can connect them with a dedicated care finder.

Coffs Harbour, Clarence Valley, and Richmond Valley, Port Macquarie-Hastings, Kempsey, Nambucca and Bellingen

If someone requires care finder support, Footprints Community can connect them with a dedicated care finder.

Kyogle, Tweed, Lismore, Byron and Ballina

If someone requires care finder support, Carexcell can connect them with a dedicated care finder.

Coffs Harbour and Port Macquarie Hastings LGAs

Funding will contribute to the ongoing employment and hosting of the Our Healthy Clarence Project Coordinator, and support the development and implementation of strategies designed to achieve the objectives of the Our Healthy Clarence Plan.

Clarence Valley

For Jullums Aboriginal Medical Service staff.

Lismore and surrounds

For Aboriginal community members interested in mental health first aid.

Lismore

Development of culturally safe disaster preparedness tools and disaster planning for Aboriginal families.

Northern Rivers

Counselling and mental health support for people living in Mid North Coast residential aged care facilities.

Coffs Harbour, Bellingen, Nambucca Heads, Kempsey, Port Macquarie

Hub for community members to access service information and participate in health and wellbeing programs.

Lake Cathie

Aims to improve health and access outcomes for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people with chronic health conditions.

Clarence Valley, Richmond Valley

Counselling and mental health support for people living in Northern NSW residential aged care facilities.

Northern NSW

Youth program that provides educational and recreational activities, training, mentoring, leadership and employment opportunities for young people.

Northern Rivers

Mental health outreach and community engagement activities to support the Wardell community.

Northern Rivers

Development of a native bush foods garden in the Clarence Valley.

Clarence Valley

Aims to improve health and access outcomes for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people with chronic health conditions.

Tweed Valley

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people who access mainstream general practices in Coffs Harbour, Bellingen and Nambucca.

Coffs Harbour, Bellingen and Nambucca

Community disaster resilience and healing projects.

Mid North Coast

Low intensity mental health support and trauma-based education for people impacted by the 2022 floods.

Northern Rivers

In-person mental health services and information at the Lismore Health Precinct

Mid North Coast, Hastings Macleay, Northern Rivers/Clarence Valley and Tweed Valley

Provides Aboriginal narrative therapy services to improve the social and emotional wellbeing.

Bowraville

Counselling, care coordination and education for LGBTQ+ people and people living with HIV impacted by the 2022 floods.

Northern Rivers

Trauma education and resilience training programs for aged care staff working with older people in their homes.

Northern Rivers

For people aged 12-25 seeking support for mental and physical health, work and study, and alcohol and other drugs.

Grafton

For people aged 12-25 seeking support for mental and physical health, work and study, and alcohol and other drugs.

Lismore

Launching in late 2022, North Coast Health Connect will provide 24/7 nurse triage via phone or webchat.

Mid North Coast, Hastings Macleay, Northern Rivers/Clarence Valley and Tweed Valley

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people with chronic health conditions who access Werin Aboriginal Corporation.

Port Macquarie

For people aged 12-25 seeking support for mental and physical health, work and study, and alcohol and other drugs.

Tweed Heads

Cultural connection activities for Aboriginal students at Mackillop college and the wider community.

Port Macquarie

Therapeutic group work programs for women in the Lismore region affected by the 2022 floods.

Northern Rivers

A range of free mental health and wellbeing supports to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in the Northern Rivers region.

Northern Rivers

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people who access mainstream general practices in Port Macquarie and Kempsey.

Port Macquarie and Kempsey

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people with chronic health conditions who access Durri Aboriginal Corporation Medical Service.

Kempsey

Cultural connection and knowledge-sharing to consolidate the lessons learned in the Indigenous community response to the 2022 Northern Rivers floods.

Northern Rivers

Suicide prevention service available to people discharged from hospital emergency departments.

Tweed Valley, Northern Rivers and Clarence Valley

A weekly hub where the Maclean community can access community and health information and services.

Maclean

A trauma-informed community development project to support the Lismore community's recovery following the 2022 floods.

Northern Rivers

Community legal education workshops to support disaster recovery.

Mid North Coast

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people with chronic health conditions who access Jullums AMS.

Lismore

Case coordination, recovery conversations, cultural healing and trauma-based education programs.

Northern Rivers

Health and nutrition programs delivered through the Oak Centre Community Kitchen in North Casino.

Casino

Development of culturally safe disaster preparedness tools and disaster planning for Aboriginal families.

Mid North Coast

Building the capacity of neighbourhoods in the Tweed to support each other in the event of natural disaster.

Northern Rivers

Social and emotional wellbeing services for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people attending Galambila’s Aboriginal Medical Service.

Coffs Harbour

For people aged 12-25 seeking support for mental and physical health, work and study, and alcohol and other drugs.

Coffs Harbour

Community healing and cultural connection activities with a focus on isolated and remote communities.

Northern Rivers

Community support and wellbeing hubs to support flood-impacted communities

Woodburn, Lismore, Mullumbimby and Murwillumbah

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people with chronic health conditions who access Galambila Aboriginal Health Service.

Coffs Harbour

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people with chronic health conditions who access Bullinah AHS.

Ballina

For Aboriginal men with both drug and alcohol and mental health issues.

Ballina, Lismore, Byron Bay, Casino, Kyogle

For people aged 12-25 seeking support for mental and physical health, work and study, and alcohol and other drugs.

Port Macquarie

Free or low-cost youth health services for young people aged 12-25.

Mid North Coast, Hastings Macleay, Northern Rivers/Clarence Valley and Tweed Valley

Social and emotional wellbeing services for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people attending Werin’s Aboriginal Medical Service.

Port Macquarie

Individualised and trauma-informed therapeutic support for young people aged 14 - 18 who have been impacted by the 2022 floods.

Northern Rivers

This project provides Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people living in the Ballina Local Government Area with improved access to psychological and psychiatry services and support with care navigation.

Ballina

Aftercare support and treatment to people 16 years and over at risk of or have previously attempted suicide or self-harm.

Port Macquarie, Kempsey, Bellingen, Nambucca Valley and Coffs Harbour regions

Counselling and mental health support for people living in Mid North Coast residential aged care facilities.

Coffs Harbour, Bellingen, Nambucca Heads, Kempsey, Port Macquarie

Evidence-based programs to improve the wellbeing and resilience of children, young people, and adults impacted by natural disaster.

Northern NSW

Disaster education and planning for Culturally and Linguistically Diverse (CALD) agricultural communities.

Mid North Coast

First aid training provided to community members in small, isolated communities with limited access to medical services.

Region wide

Funding will contribute to the ongoing employment and hosting of the Our Healthy Clarence Project Coordinator, and support the development and implementation of strategies designed to achieve the objectives of the Our Healthy Clarence Plan.

Clarence Valley

Community legal education workshops to support disaster recovery.

Mid North Coast

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people who access mainstream general practice in Tweed, Byron, Ballina, Lismore, Richmond Valley, Kyogle and Clarence Valley.

Tweed, Byron, Ballina, Lismore, Richmond Valley, Kyogle and Clarence Valley

For Aboriginal community members interested in mental health first aid.

Lismore

This project provides Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people living in the Ballina Local Government Area with improved access to psychological and psychiatry services and support with care navigation.

Ballina