Pregnancy Support available at Family Planning Tasmania Clinics. 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. Clients can discuss pregnancy options including becoming a parent, [...]
We need your Help! Family Planning Tasmania Stakeholder Feedback Survey 2021 Over the past two years, Family Planning Tasmania has endeavored to raise the awareness of the services and programs we deliver. We have focused on engagement and education of health service providers as well as the promotion of key services such as pregnancy support, clinical services and the My Choice [...]
The new and improved FPT website is now live! Our new URL is www.fpt.org.au . Features include: Easier navigation features and an accessibility menu which can adjust text and the spacing of text making it easier to use. An “Advice & Information” area where people can get information about our services and sexual and reproductive health [...]
Youth Week Tasmania will see the return of a favourite Youth Week event with RANT arts bringing back Reclaim the Lane. Things will be a little different than previous years due to social distancing and contact tracing requirements. All the same ingredients will be on offer (art workshops, live music and a platform for Devonport’s young [...]
We’re here to help you have your say. We listen, we support, and we help to empower you to get what you need to live the life that you want and deserve. We can provide support to young adults who access the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS). One of our advocates recently helped a young adult [...]
The Community Voices Project has been a partnership between YFCC, WISE Employment and Creativity Australia. After what has been a wonderful 2 years providing support for our local youth, the project finished up on the 31st of March. The project aim was to assist young people with opportunities to re/engage in education, training and/ employment. Attendance [...]
A client was referred to TASS in late 2018. They were a full time Year 10 student at Burnie High School and was living at Hellyer College accommodation weekdays. They requested support to obtain independent accommodation predominately to be able to work more hours and apply for apprenticeships. They had no other family in Tasmania. During [...]
DEN has a training opportunity for community services students, new entrants to the community service sector, and for organisation support roles who have contact with people experiencing negative impacts from alcohol or other drugs. The Brief Intervention Scaffold workshop is an interactive, evidence-based opportunity to build knowledge and skills for short brief interventions based on the [...]
During our 2021 January summer school holidays, we were excited to run a selection of 12 free activities for young people aged 12 and up in both Burnie and Devonport. Young NW Tasmanians were able to choose from a plethora of activities including surf lessons with the Coast Rider Surf School, skating lessons with the Drop [...]
SignPost is Working It Out’s website and mobile app directory of LGBTIQ+ inclusive businesses and services in Tasmania. Currently we have funding from Devonport City Council’s community grants program to increase the number of listings in Devonport under our Making Inclusion Stick project. I’m Zac, the project officer for Making Inclusion Stick. I am a young [...]