Family and Relationship Services
The following list provides links to information about family support services and relationship services at the national and state level. To locate a specific service in your area go to the Australian Government's Family Relationships Online website.
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National
Anglicare
Services include emergency relief for families in crisis; foster care and adoption for abused children and those with special needs; counselling and support for children and youth with disabilities.
Barnardos
Barnardos is Australia's leading children's charity providing services which successfully help prevent and reverse the effects of abuse, neglect and homelessness on children and young people.
Brotherhood of St Laurence
The Brotherhood of St Laurence provides a full range of services including job training and placement programs, care for the elderly and people with disabilities, early childhood development programs and support services for newly arrived refugees and migrants.
Child Support Agency
Provides information on a wide range of topics of concern to separating parents. The fact sheets are available in the following languages: Arabic Macedonian Spanish Vietnamese, Chinese, Russian, Thai, Croatian, Serbian and Turkish. They also suggest that someone needing help from the Child Support Agency ring the Translating and Interpreting Service (TIS) on 13 14 50.
Family Relationships Online
This site provides families with information and advice about family relationship issues. It allows families to find out about services that are funded by the Government that can assist them to build better relationships. It also provides information on the Government's reforms to the family law system to help families focus on the needs of their children.
Justlook
A comprehensive online national database of low cost or free health and community services offered throughout Australia.
Mens Line Australia
Mensline Australia supports men who are dealing with family and relationship difficulties, particularly surrounding family break-down or separation.
Mission Australia
Services include early childhood intervention, one-on-one counselling, alcohol and drug education and family reconciliation, skills training and assistance finding a job.
National Council of Single Mothers
NCSMC is a self help group to fight for the basic and essential rights of all sole parent families. The NCSMC was formed to act as a national voice for the existing network of state based councils in Australia.
Relationships Australia
Relationships Australia is one of Australia’s largest community-based organisations providing relationship support to people regardless of age, religion, gender, cultural or economic background.
Salvation Army
The Salvation Army offers a wide-range of sevices as diverse as the areas of need in the community.
Smith Family
The Smith Family works to unlock opportunities for financially disadvantaged children and their families.
St Vincent De Paul Society Australia
Services provided include: aged care, migrant and refugee services, home visitation, homeless person's services, clothing and assistance centres, care for people with psychiatric disabilities, vocational services for people with a disability, drug, alcohol and gambling counselling, financial counselling, disaster recovery and street vans.
The Benevolent Society
The Benevolent Society's core programs focus on older people, children & families, women's health and social leadership.
Australian Capital Territory
GrandParents
Provides information relevant to grandparents raising, or significantly involved in their grandchildren.
Parentlink
Department of Disability, Housing and Community Services, ACT. Links to parent guides, tips and emergency fact sheets.
Women's Information and Referral Centre
Women's Information & Referral Centre provides information on a wide range of government and non-government services in the ACT and region including Women's Services; Accommodation services; Support groups; Services for families; Links to relevant websites as well as a Community Calendar for Women and Information Sheets on Domestic Violence and Separation.
New South Wales
Centacare Sydney
Centacare Sydney Family Relationships Programs provide counselling, mediation/conciliation and education services to individuals, couples and families/children.
Interrelate
Interrelate is a community based, not for profit organisation that has been a leading provider of quality relationship services for over 79 years. Interrelate has a network of centres across metropolitan, regional and rural New South Wales and provide a range of relationship services including counselling, mediation, training, education and children's contact services.
NSW Family Services Inc
Peak body for family support services in NSW and ACT, Family services provide a range of support to families with dependent children whose capacity to function is limited by internal or external stresses of life.
Tedd Noffs Foundation
The Ted Noffs Foundation provides essential services for young people and their families who are experiencing drug and alcohol problems and related trauma.
UNIFAM
UNIFAM provides counselling, mediation and education to children, young people and adults.
Women's Information and Referral Service
The Women's Information and Referral Service (WIRS) is a confidential telephone contact point for women seeking up-to-date and accurate information about organisations and services for women in NSW.
Northern Territory
Northern Territory Families Website
This site is for Northern Territory families who are bringing up kids.
Queensland
Kinections
A non-profit organisation partially funded by Local, State and Australian Governments offering counselling and education programs to individuals, families, businesses and communities at a range of venues in South East Queensland.
Women's Infolink
The information and referral arm of the Office for Women which oversees the development and delivery of Government policies for women in Queensland.
Women's Information and Referral Centre
Information and support for women.
South Australia
Child and Youth Health
News and practical health information for parents, carers and young people.
Onkaparinga Family
This website has been developed as a collaborative partnership between The Department of Family and Community Services, The City of Onkaparinga and Infoxchange Australia. The site facilitates communication and information exchange between service providers, parents and children, and allows them to create a community amongst themselves.
Parenting SA
Helping parents be their best, this site provides information on a wide range of parenting topics from birth through to adolescence.
UnitingCare Wesley
UnitingCare Wesley, formerly known as Adelaide Central Mission, aim to make as big a difference as possible in the lives of families and people who are most in need of community assistance.
Women's Information Service
The Women's Information Service operates as part of the Office for the Status of Women and provides a free and confidential information and referral service for all women.
Tasmania
Family Support Guide
A directory of community and government resources for family support in northern Tasmania.
Family Relationships Counselling
Funded by the Tasmanian Department of Families, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs, Family Relationships Counselling is for anyone who is having problems with their relationships with family members or partners.
Women Tasmania
Provides information on community and family violence and a directory of services of particular interest to women.
Victoria
ABCD Parenting Young Adolescents Program
Funded by the Department of Human Services Victoria, aims to equip parents with the communication skills, parenting practices, information and strategies to help them build positive, trusting relationships with their young adolescent children. Research indicates that building these positive relationships will help to prevent problems arising with adolescent drug use.
Better Health
Fact sheets on parenting and other topics.
Cairnmillar Institute
Cairnmillar provides professional support through counselling and psychotherapy for people needing new direction in their lives. Their counselling and psychotherapy services address a vast number of issues which affect men, women and children of all ages.
Domestic Violence Resource Centre Victoria
The Domestic Violence Resource Centre Victoria aims to reduce and prevent family violence by providing education to improve service and policy responses, and by assisting people who have experienced abuse.
Family Life
Family Life provides an extensive range of counselling, mediation, support and educational services for families, taking a whole-of-life approach.
Family Mediation Centre
Provides help with mediation, men's relationship counselling, parent adolescent mediation and other services.
Jesuit Social Services
Jesuit Social Services works collaboratively with others to engage disadvantaged individuals, families and communities and the wider society to promote health and wellbeing and to address social exclusion.
Lifeworks
LifeWorks Relationship Counselling and Education Services is a not-for-profit organisation which provides professional family and relationship counselling, mediation and education services for those forming relationships, planning to marry, wanting to reconcile difference and those facing separation and divorce.
Mental Illness Fellowship Victoria
Information on mental illness, including multicultural MI fact sheets
Orygen Youth Health
Information on mental illness, specifically relevant to young people. Also has information for young people themselves.
Parentline
Parentline provides a universally accessible telephone service to Victorian parents and caregivers of children from birth to eighteen. Parentline assists with the development of strategies and skills that promote the confidence, resilience and well being of families and linkage with community resources. Information is also provided in Arabic, Chinese, Spanish, Turkish and Vietnamese.
Step Family Association of Victoria Inc
A community non-profit organisation offering education, support and resources to step families.
Victoria Legal Aid
Legal information about relationship breakdown and separation, domestic relationships, family violence, dispute resolution, going to court, parenting, child support, maintenance and dividing property. Information available in a range of languages.
WIRE
Women's Information provides free information, support and referrals to women across Victoria.
Western Australia
Centrecare
Centrecare is a professional and innovative provider of specialist social services which includes counselling, mediation, support, accommodation and training services. There is also a special section for men - The Men's Shed - which provides ideas, tips and articles on manhood and fatherhood.
Women's Resources Online
News, resources and information important for women in WA.