Family Planning Tasmania (FPT) are currently promoting their Pregnancy Counselling and Support services. Family Planning Tasmania provides clients with supportive, non-directive, non-judgmental pregnancy counselling. Clients can discuss pregnancy options including becoming a parent, adoption and termination/abortion. Family Planning Tasmania can provide medication termination of pregnancy (MToP), and can assist with referral for surgical termination of pregnancy [...]

One of the services offered by YFCC is our Integrated Family Support Service (IFSS). This is a voluntary service that offers assistance to families through parenting support, community connection, social participation, advocacy and referrals to other service providers, as needed. Our focus is to increase the wellbeing and safety of children, young people and their families [...]

That’s a wrap!! The October school holidays were a great success with Devonport and Burnie crews joining together to participate in 4 awesome activities. We started the holidays with some fishing at the Cam River in Burnie. A huge thanks to Fishing Tasmania for helping out and showing our young people some tips and tricks to [...]

The East Devonport Child & Family Centre are coordinating a mental health event focusing on men’s mental health. Jimmy Barnes has kindly donated his time to film a 30 minute video answering questions about his journey with mental health issues (from questions provided by the event organising committee). The event will be held on Saturday, 9th [...]

The Community Voices Choir held their first performance recently at the YFCC Homelessness Week Luncheon in Devonport. https://youtu.be/hptKA6WDH0Q If you would like to see them perform, the choir’s next public performance will be at the East Devonport Has Talent concert on Saturday 16th November, 2.30pm to 4.00pm, at the East Devonport Primary School.    

I have been working in my role as Integrated Family Support Services Worker for about 6 weeks now and am working out of our Devonport Office. I graduated from UTAS last year (2018) and absolutely love my job with YFCC!  I have been fortunate in having previous careers prior to my current Social Work career. I worked in Banking and Finance industry [...]

I have been working at the Crisis Accommodation Service in both Devonport and Burnie for the last three months. I moved to Australia 10 years ago and have been working within the sector since moving to Australia. My background prior to moving to the country, has been working with the Sector 8 housing program in America and playing [...]

Around one in three women has an unplanned or unexpected pregnancy at some time in their life. Unplanned pregnancy can leave some women feeling confused and scared, whereas others may feel happy and excited; all these feelings are normal. Pregnant women have a number of options, and for some making a decision about the pregnancy can [...]

With the support of a small grant from the Mental Health Council of Tasmania, YFCC once again was able to support Mental Health Week in 2019. The theme this year is ‘we all have a role to play’ which is a powerful yet simple reminder that supporting our mental wellness and those suffering from mental ill-health [...]

One of the main services offered by YFCC is our Alcohol, Tobacco & Other Drugs (ATOD) service. We offer ATOD counselling right across the North West and West Coasts as well as a regular service to King Island. Through therapeutic counselling and case management we are able to work with a broad range of community members [...]