CALD Family Initiatives

This program, funded under the Australian Government's Stronger Families and Communities Strategy, offers broad based support to families from culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) backgrounds. The program aims to improve family functioning and to help people become confident parents in a new country. Initiatives aim to build community capacity and to facilitate links between CALD families and local services.

The main services we offer are:

• Family support and encouragement
• Confidential counselling
• In-home support from the bi-cultural family support worker's
• Mediation to resolve conflict (for example between parents and children, or between couples)
• Advocacy
• Partnership development with a range of local family support services (including help with doctors and lawyers)
• Community capacity building (includes help for families to establish social networks so that help will be available from within their own communities)
• Community education programs on parenting and relationship issues

Services are delivered in sensitive, confidential and culturally appropriate ways.

Phone for information or an appointment:

Family Support Worker/Counsellor - North West
Margaret Grundy
Mobile: 0447 568 380
Burnie: Ph: (03) 6431 9476     Fax: 64324025
Devonport: (03) 6423 5598      Fax: 64248654


Bi-Cultural/Family Support Worker
Besta Poni Peter Ph: 6332 2232
John Nyagua Ph: 6332 22 16