Needle & Syringe Program
Youth Family and Community Connections (YFCC)
YFCC provides a primary Needle and Syringe Program outlet in Devonport.The NSP provides clean injecting equipment, together with information and education on prevention, treatment and health maintenance, brief intervention and referral services for people who inject drugs.The Service is free and confidential and is available 9:00am to 5:00pm, Monday to Friday....
Needle and Syringe Program Burnie
Anglicare Tasmania
The service distributes sterile injecting equipment to any client, and provides peer education and support around BBV, (specifically Hepatitis C), safer injecting techniques, injecting hygiene, vein care and general physical and mental health issues.The service is non-judgemental with assured confidentiality.Opening hours - Burnie: 10:00am – 2:30pm Mon to Fri...
Needle and Syringe Program Glenorchy
Anglicare Tasmania
The service distributes sterile injecting equipment to any client, and provides peer education and support around BBV, (specifically Hepatitis C), safer injecting techniques, injecting hygiene, vein care and general physical and mental health issues.The service is non-judgemental with assumed confidentiality.Opening hours: 10.00am to 12.00pm and 12:30pm to 4:30pm Monday to Friday....
Needle and Syringe Program Hobart
Anglicare Tasmania
The service distributes sterile injecting equipment to any client, and provides peer education and support around BBV, (specifically Hepatitis C), safer injecting techniques, injecting hygiene, vein care and general physical and mental health issues.The service is non-judgemental with assumed confidentiality.Opening hours: 12:30pm to 5:00pm Monday to Friday Vending machine available 24/7....
North West Early Therapeutic Support (NESTS)
Anglicare Tasmania
NESTS provides early therapeutic intervention to ‘hard to engage’, ‘at risk’ families on the verge of Child Protection involvement. The program is aimed at primary caregivers and their children aged 0-5 who have been exposed to adverse childhood experiences resulting in insecure attachments between caregiver and child.The families NESTS work with experience complex issues often stemming from intergenerational trauma. NESTS have found that it is essential to use an eclectic tool box of trauma informed approaches, strategies and interventions which provides an experience of ‘felt safety’ for our families as well as helping them to find their ‘voice’....
Northern Newpin
Uniting Tasmania
Newpin is a therapeutic program which provides emotional and practical support to families with at least one child under the age of six. It supports and empowers families to break the cycle of child neglect and abuse and to provide safe, nurturing environments for children, through early intervention in the life of the child. In the North, Newpin is delivered as a group, centre-based program, and combines an outreach program as well, which includes families living outside of the Greater Launceston area.The Newpin centre is in Ravenswood and clients can access transport support in getting to and from the centre....