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STARTTS services are professional, innovative, culturally sensitive, confidential and impartial. We continuously consult with our clients to ensure our services are meeting their needs.

Our services are provided for free. The only exceptions are some of our training courses and consultancy services for other organisations.

Please visit our resources and publications section to view information about our services in other languages.

If you would like to 
request a STARTTS service or refer someone to us, please read our referral page.


The Services STARTTS provides include:
 

  • Individual and family counselling and psychotherapy
  • Services for children and young people including camps
  • Group therapy including relaxation groups and groups where refugees share their thoughts and feelings about their experiences
  • Activity groups such as English, craft and exercise classes
  • Enterprise Facilitation support to local entrepreneurs with refugee and refugee-like backgrounds wishing to start or expand existing small business
  • Physiotherapy and bodywork including pain management groups
  • Early Intervention Program for refugees who have arrived in Australia in the last 12 months
  • Community consultations and community development
  • Training for people working with refugees
  • Workshops to help refugees learn about Australian culture and systems as well as how the experiences of torture and trauma might be affecting them and their families. These are called Families in Cultural Transition, or FICT
  • Psychiatric services including medication
  • Neurofeedback, a program that helps retrain the brain to overcome the effects of torture and trauma
  • Consultancy services for other organisations that work with torture and trauma survivors
  • Legal advice and referrals together with the Public Interest Advocacy Centre 
  • Lobbying and advocacy on behalf of individuals and refugee communities, including policy submissions 
  • Research
  • Acupuncture clinic

 To find out more about STARTTS services follow the links above. You may also wish to download our STARTTS brochure.