Service Directory

Supporting Tasmanian Aboriginals

Principal: Andrea Trezise
Associate: Hannah Phillips

Blue Knot Foundation, formerly Adults Surviving Child Abuse (ASCA), is the leading national organisation working to improve the lives of 1 in 4 adult Australians (five million) who have experienced childhood trauma. This includes people who have experienced child abuse in all its forms, neglect, domestic violence in childhood and other adverse childhood events. This is known as complex trauma.

Blue Knot Foundation is a policy and practice leader in both clinical and trauma-informed responses to complex trauma. We provide short term phone counselling support, information, resources, tools and workshops to help survivors and their friends, families, partners and loved ones live better lives.

Blue Knot Foundation also provides professional development training, supervision, consultancy and other services to practitioners, organisations and diverse personnel who work with survivors across sectors.

CLS is a not for profit charitable organisation offering hope specifically to those struggling with life issues that may lead to suicidal thoughts and behaviours and to those who are impacted by suicide.
CLS offers professional counselling at no cost to those struggling with thoughts of suicide, suicide, are facing significant life issues or who have been confronted with the suicide of a family member or friend.

Relationships Australia Tasmania have staff skilled in providing a range of services including counselling, group work and relationship skills education programs that focus on improving the emotional health and wellbeing of Tasmanians from CALD backgrounds including refugees. Relationships Australia Tasmania staff work with individuals and communities in response to needs identified in the community. Interpreters can be arranged.

The Family Law Registry staff provide information about available services within both the Family Court of Australia and the Federal Circuit Court.

Staff cannot provide legal advice but can provide clients with forms and procedural information regarding:

The service provides support for such things as:

The Family Violence Counselling and Support Service (FVCSS) is a statewide Tasmanian Government service that provides professional specialised services to assist children, young people and adults impacted by the experience of family violence.
FVCSS is a free service that works with adults and children who have been identified as victims of domestic/family violence.
FVCSS is part of the whole-of-government Safe at Home strategy to address the issue of family violence in the Tasmanian community.
In Tasmania Family Violence is recognised as a crime and as a form of Child Abuse.

FVCSS is divided into two programmes, which are the Children and Young Persons Program and the Adult Program.
The Children and Young Persons’ Program (CHYPP) provides therapeutic counselling and support to children and young people affected by domestic/family violence.