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30 Kate Greener and Karen Casey at “Family Week“ celebrations October 2007 Derek Tuffield cooking breakfast at “Family Week“ celebrations October 2007 Taisoo Kim Watson and Tania Tuffield Angela Klein – Business Coordinator – Distribution 2008 Centre
uraL FamILY couNsELLor – charLEvILLE Funded by Department of Communities The Rural Family Counsellor (RFC) provides counselling services to families with dependant children aged 18 years or younger, and to individual family members, in South West Queensland. The counsellor regularly visits all towns within a 200 kilometre radius of Charleville to access clients, network with service providers, and to promote the RFC service. Most eligible clients reside in the rural towns, as the farming population is ageing: average age of farmers in the South West is 62 years. Primary referral sources are local state schools, other visiting and local services such as police, outpatients, and RFDS. John’s service includes substantial contact by telephone to enable outreach beyond towns visited by the RFC. As fuel costs rise, necessitating economies in travel, telephone contact is increasingly used. RFC is also sharing more rural trips with YSC Charleville and other visiting service providers. During the year ended 30 June 2008, John travelled 34,758km on business; had 323 client contacts, including 140 by telephone; made 567 agency networking contacts, including 94 by telephone; attended 30 meetings and 12 training sessions. The main family issues addressed during the past year were: • juvenile behaviour and management issues for parents • truancy, bullying and disruptive behaviour of children at school • grief and loss issues affecting individuals and families, and • intercouple issues, primarily financial, leading to disputes and domestic violence. The main challenge to the RFC service is its limitation to families with children aged 0 to18 years. Rural clients need more broad-based services than this role can presently provide. The RFC and CEO Lifeline DD&SWQ continue to lobby the funding agency to expand the RFC role. ruraL tEam wEst – charLEvILLE January saw the floods hit Charleville. All staff were on board to assist the Community Recovery Program that followed. Counselling staff immediately attended the multi-agency ‘One Stop Shop’ set up to aid flood victims, and Lifeline staff provided input to regular Disaster Recovery Meetings. Recruiting staff for Charleville office continues to be a major difficulty. Charleville has operated for the report period without a Manager on site. CEO Derek Tuffield has provided management support from Toowoomba. Also, South West Family Intervention Program has continued without staff from Charleville, using a contract worker from Roma. Madonna continues as co-facilitator of the Charleville Women Focus Group. The facilitators have been successful in obtaining NAIDOC Funding from Dept of Communities; the Focus Group activities included a lovely lunch at the Thai Restaurant, and also held a morning tea at the new coffee shop in Charleville. Lifeline has been represented at Disaster Recovery Workshops, Multi-Cultural Diversity Groups, NAIDOC Week Planning Group, Youth Interagency Meetings and town activities. We also ran a stall at the South West Careers Expo held in Charleville. rural team charLEvILLE 31
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