As well as helping couples work through relationship difficulties, Centacare provides support to refugees seeking to settle in a new land. We offer the professional skills and heartfelt concern of qualified counsellors for individuals battling with anxiety or addictions, and their families. We help children to maintain critical relationships with separated mums and dads and we help those mums and dads who have been through bitter separation to put their children first and leave them out of their battles. We help young people contemplating a life together to communicate more openly. We help to keep prisoners connected to the community and to their families. We offer outreach and pastoral care for those who are living with mental illness and other health problems. If you need help, please contact Centacare on 9287 5555 or go to www.centacaremelbourne.org for information on your closest Centacare branch.

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Administration:
Cardinal Knox Centre, 383 Albert Street, East Melbourne VIC 3002
Ph: 03 9287 5555 Fax: 03 9287 5599

You have probably heard through the media about the increasing abuse of alcohol and other drugs. I would like to tell you about our Alcohol and Other Drug Family Service which is distinctive in the respect that we focus primarily on concerned family members caught up in the turmoil that often results from a loved one’s alcoholism or other drug dependency.

Family members need our support so the addiction does not overwhelm their lives. We empower parents like Norma and Rob to practice self care, put boundaries in place and stop enabling their son or daughter’s lifestyle.

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The services and programs provided by Centacare are for all the community. They seek to address the needs of people at all stages of life and they focus on the family.

Centacare Catholic Family Services continues to promote its vision of Life to the full for families’ individuals and children through our involvement in family relationship counselling, school counselling, refugee settlement services, innovative relationship education, drug and alcohol and loss and grief programs as well as arrange of other support services. The professionalism and dedication of staff ensures that Centacare continues to have a positive healing influence on the lives of many needy families and individuals in Melbourne and Geelong.

Centacare Catholic Family Services invites you to share your commitment to family life through membership of a Friendship Club.

The Friendship Club is a fellowship of people who care and show compassion for the many people in our community who come to Centacare seeking help to rebuild or strengthen their lives.

Friendship Club members see a need for a continuing commitment. By joining together, members’ funds provide the financial security Centacare needs to plan and develop its services to help families who come into its care.

We look forward to sharing with you our commitment to all families and, with your help, to bring love into the hearts of those in pain.

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