Our Services
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:
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. |