Tag: Tackling Tobacco
Rainbow Lodge, the oldest halfway house in Australia, supports high risk men from NSW prisons to better able to integrate into the community.
When implementing the Tackling Tobacco program, the staff at Mission Australia Goulburn not only found the program easy to implement within the service, but the program also resulted in clients quitting smoking altogether.
One Door Mental Health Personal Helpers and Mentors (PHaMs) Shoalhaven, part of the One Door Mental Health, is a mental health program that helps consumers to reconnect with their community. PHaMs works with consumers on a personal level by supporting family relationships, providing outreach services, referrals to key services such as housing and drug and […]
About the service Operated by Mission Australia, Triple Care Farm is a residential rehabilitation and treatment program for 16−24 year-olds experiencing substance abuse, homelessness, mental illness and acute behavioural problems. Triple Care Farm’s 12-week program involves therapeutic group work and counselling, educational programs, life skills and leisure activities. For the first four weeks at Triple […]
I’ve been smoking since I was 14. I’m 23 now, so that’s almost nine years. I’ve only ever quit for a month before. I found it almost impossible to quit smoking. I used patches, I used patches and gum together, but I couldn’t not have a cigarette for the whole day. That was the hardest thing. […]
About the service Allum House is a youth refuge targeting 16−21 year-olds, run by Mission Australia’s Canterbury Bankstown Youth Service. Staffed by only one worker at any given time, the five-bed youth homelessness service is located in a suburban house in a residential part of Bankstown, southwest Sydney. Many of the young people who come […]
I used to smoke at least a 50-pack a day. The smoking rule, that only one person could smoke at a time, was already in place when I moved in. So it stopped group sessions of smoking and you wouldn’t go out there to social smoke. It was only when you really needed. I always […]