Community C.A.R.E. - Responding to Communities

Community C.A.R.E. - Responding to Communities

Community C.A.R.E.- Responding to Communities delivers an inclusive community education program which informs community expectations in regard to Crisis Awareness and Emergency Response processes within their communities with the purpose of developing both individual and community resilience and preparedness with the aim:

* to mitigate loss of life and property
* to create public awareness of potential threats to individuals and the community
* to instruct individuals in self-help techniques
* to assist individuals and groups to build a tool kit of core skills which are translatable across a diverse spectrum of potential situations
* to develop understanding of areas of personal recovery and resilience.
* to provide information in regard to self care and give definition to the concept of psychological wellbeing
* to support individuals and communities to recognise their unique strengths whilst also identifying their vulnerabilities
* to work with individuals and communities to develop community focused crisis awareness and emergency responses
* to explore potential gaps in relation to equity of needs within the community and;

In doing so to ultimately promote a more positive Personal Recovery experience in which the individual and/or community is an active and supported participant with an enhanced capacity to provide self help and offer mutual aid to individuals, to families, to households, to community groups, to businesses indeed to anyone within the community.

We also offer the following services:

o Trauma counselling and support
o Grief and loss counselling and support
o Critical incident stress management
o Emergeny preparedness training workshops.
o Emergency management planning
o Community education programs

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