INDIVIDUAL SUPPORT

Our lived experience youth workers are here to support you through life’s challenges. We offer support across the following areas:

  • Homelessness and/or unstable accommodation
  • Mental health support
  • Exploring gender and sexuality
  • Navigating relationships
  • Accessing LGBTIQ+ SB inclusive healthcare
  • Having problems at school
  • Having challenges at home
  • Help navigating your way through services, such as Centrelink, Housing and/or NDIS
  • Accessing gender affirming health care
  • Support around your drug and alcohol use
  • Sexual health information or accessing safe and inclusive sexual health check up
  • Finding LGBTIQ+ SB information, resources, and services

Please know this list is not inclusive and we are here to help with any challenge you may be facing. To access one on one support please complete an easy online referral form and our incredible intake worker Ezarco will be in touch to get you started.

COUNSELLING

Need someone to talk to who can help you navigate some of the tough times? Our affirming counselling service can be a great option. ODYS offers young people 12 free counselling sessions to support their mental health. To access counselling please complete an easy online referral form and our incredible intake worker Ezarco will be in touch to get you started.

FAMILY MEDIATION

Family mediation by our qualified counsellors allows for open, respectful conversations that help build understanding, strengthen relationships, and resolve conflicts in a safe and supportive space between young people and their family. This service is offered at the request of the young person and is led by the young person.

DOMESTIC, FAMILY & SEXUAL VIOLENCE/ABUSE

COUNSELLING & SUPPORT

Our free and confidential DFSV service is here to support LGBTIQ+SB young people who have experienced or are at risk of domestic, family and/or sexual violence/abuse through counselling, individual support, information and supported referrals.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT OF COUNTRY

Open Doors Youth Service Inc. acknowledges Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples as the First people and Traditional Custodians of the lands and waters where we meet, live, learn and work. We acknowledge and celebrate the rich and thriving diversity of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultures, the oldest continuing living cultures in the world.

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Phone: (07) 3257 7660
Email: opendoors@opendoors.net.au