New Beginnings

The Therapeutic Community’s aims is to provide a safe and secure environment where women who suffer from alcohol and other drug dependence and its related problems can concentrate on their recovery.

 

The all female staff have a wide variety of skills and work together as a team.  We have a strong mix of staff with an impressive mix of orientations and life experiences.

 

New Beginnings  is a specifically tailored program and includes:

• an ACT (acceptance, commitment therapy) based approach
• trauma informed approach as many women have faced trauma in active addiction
• parenting courses for clients who are also parents
• engagement with family support, children visits including liaison with FaCS
• in house WHOS family support workers

 

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New Beginnings offers a range of skills development programs specifically tailored to women and taught by women including:

• addiction education including drug overdose and relapse prevention

• Social and communication skills, assertiveness skills and self esteem building

• Community unity & peer feedback sessions
• Harm minimisation including education on HIV/Hep C as well as CPR
• Sexual health
• Skills based education (e.g. relationship skills, communications skills, conflict resolution)

 

Other activities:

• Participation in external recovery based support networks
• stress management and exercise
• Body movement for women

 

In addition there are a wide range of community based social gatherings and shared job functions which help to build a sense of collaboration and support.

 

Testimonial

“I can’t believe how far I’ve come and I feel I deserve it because I’ve put the action in. This would not have been possible if I didn’t come to WHOS New Beginnings and I would most likely be dead. I am so grateful to this program and the people who have helped me along the way.”

NEW BEGINNINGS RESIDENT