Provides camps and activity days for children, young people and families with a focus on those who do not live with their birth parents.
Puddle Jumpers equips young people with the confidence and skills to assume more control and make informed choices in their everyday lives.
Supports include:
- Camps with different themes.
- Camps for families to attend together.
- Activities.
- Develop relationships.
- Social interactions.
- Self-esteem.
- MinTies Program for 14-16 year olds.
- Single activity days.
- Community food nights.
Reconnect supports young people aged 12 to 18 years who are experiencing homelessness or are at risk of homelessness who live, work or study in the Onkaparinga City Council area.
The program offers individual and family counselling, mediation and supports.
Supports include:
- Improve family relationships.
- Stabilise accommodation.
- Re-establish connections with education, work and community.
The Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service (CAMHS) is a free community and hospital-based tertiary mental health service for young people aged up to 18 years.
Tertiary mental health services provide the highest level of care for those with severe and complex mental health issues.
Services include:
- Individual and family therapy.
- Group programs.
- Information.
- Hospital-based mental health care.
Support for young people disengaged from school to achieve their SACE or other vocational qualifications.
Case Managers form part of a team combining parents and schools and community services who support young people who have disengaged from school, or are at risk of disengaging from school, to learn life skills and achieve their SACE or other vocational qualifications.
Supports include:
- In class support.
- Mentoring.
- Parent engagement.
- Conflict resolution.
- Links to other community services.
- Learning options outside of school.
GOM Central is for young people who have lived in out of home care.
Provides online resources for young people leaving out of home care.
Post Care Support Services provides supports to young people who are transitioning out of care to build skills.
Provides case management, counselling, information, advocacy and skills in independent living, finances, relationships, study and employment.
Supports include:
- Transition to independent living skills.
- Education and employment supports.
- Financial literacy skills and grant support.
- Building skills to manage family and social networks.
- Culturally responsive support.
- Referral support to other services.
Provides early intervention services to assist young people aged 12 to 18 years who are homeless, or at risk of homelessness in the Playford Council area.
Reconnect assists homeless youth to stabilise their living situation and improve their level of engagement with family, work, education, training and their local community.
Services include:
- Counselling.
- Group work.
- Mediation.
- Practical support to the whole family.
- Outreach support.
Newly Arrived Youth Service (NAYS) supports young people aged 12-21 and their families who have moved to Australia within the last 5 years.
The service strengthens family relationships, addresses challenges that may lead to conflict or homelessness, and empowers young people to stay engaged in school and employment.
Services include:
- Family mediation to strengthen relationships.
- Assistance with education and employment pathways.
- Outreach and advocacy support.
- School holiday activities and community events.
- Group information sessions for schools, parents, and agencies.
Provides online and phone mental health supports for 15-25 year olds and for families seeking support on how to assist a young person.
Provides mental health supports with a mental health clinician or peer worker with lived experience of mental health. Provides guidance on supporting a young person with mental health.
Services include:
- 1-1 chat.
- Personal mental health toolkit.
- Resources.