Lamp Inc
Carer Support and Carer Respite Services
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The Carer Support Service offers education, support and skills development opportunities to those caring for a person with a psychiatric illness, their families, friends, work colleagues and other service providers. Services include :
Carers Support
helping people help themselves
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Advocacy
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Home Visits
Retreats
Referrals
Advocacy
Newsletters
Home Visits
Retreats
Carers Support Counselling available
Stress and Anxiety Management
Crisis Counselling
Adjustment Counselling
Grief
Family Relations
Crisis Counselling
Adjustment Counselling
Grief
Family Relations
Self-Help Carer Groups are most valuable in reducing carer isolation and provide informal Care Support Networks.
The Carer Support Service offers practical information and group facilitator training for both established and new carer support groups throughout the South-West region.
The Carer Support Service offers practical information and group facilitator training for both established and new carer support groups throughout the South-West region.
Mutual Self Help Groups
Carer Support Group Workshops are available, including :
Psycho-Educational Groups for Skills Development :
Stress management and self care strategies
Assertivness
Dealing with challenging behaviour
Breaking the rural barriers of isolation and small communities
Understanding and negotiating your way through the Mental Health System
Wellways. Eight stage carer information program.
Assertivness
Dealing with challenging behaviour
Breaking the rural barriers of isolation and small communities
Understanding and negotiating your way through the Mental Health System
Wellways. Eight stage carer information program.
Services
Community Education
Carer Respite Program
One on One Support
Indirect carer support services offers opportunity for carer respite by providing centre based care of consumers and family members. This consumer program works in conjunction with the D2D centre based support programs in Busselton and Margaret River and independently in Bridgetown.