CHILDREN'S COUNSELLING & SUPPORT SERVICES

SUPPORT - CHILDREN'S DOMESTIC VIOLENCE COUNSELLING
EDON Place provides counselling and support activities with children and young people, the aim of the program is to allow them to express their feelings and support them to understand their fears, emotions, and behaviours and to establish support around each person to help manage the impact of domestic and family violence. The support also aims to assist the children and young people to deal with the domestic and family violence to which they have been exposed, help break the often cyclical, intergenerational nature of domestic and family violence, and to help move towards recovery.
EDON Place provides information, advice, referral, specialist counselling and support to children and young people affected by domestic and family violence. This support is age and developmentally appropriate and delivered through a case management approach on an individual and/or group basis.

EDON Place undertakes the following:
  • assessment of risk and need to determine appropriate form of intervention
  • provision of information advice, support, and referral to the safe parent/guardian, with a specific focus on the needs of their children and young people
  • case management for all children and young people affected by domestic and family violence
  • development of support plans
  • risk assessment and safety planning
  • information, advice and referral for the safe parent or guardian of children in the program with respect to their own safety support needs; and
  • intervention that responds to parenting issues and supporting the parent/child relationship and attachment where the relationship has been impacted by the domestic and family violence.
EDON Place is committed to the safety and wellbeing of children and the protection of children from harm in fulfilment of the requirements of the Section 3 (1) (a) of the Working with Children (Risk Management and Screening) Regulation 2011 (Qld) (‘The Regulation’). The Risk Management Strategy (Children) and Child Safe Policies can be viewed here and is reviewed annually and will be updated where applicable.