Contact (please send queries to):
Finding Solutions (FS)
Overview
Finding Solutions provides support to young people and their families from across Gippsland. Finding Solutions aims to keep young people at home with their families.
What is this program for?
Finding solutions is a creative support service that works with young people from 12-18 years and their families to build better relationships and include the use of mediation intervention, to resolve behaviours and/or issues that are placing family relationship’s at risk of breakdown.
Finding Solutions Staff can help you and your family work out how to:
- Communicate in positive ways
- Feel loved and valued
- Understand each others point of view
- Stay living together
- Agree on reasonable rules and expectations
- Reengage with education or training opportunities
- Make healthy and safe choices with your life
- Access specialist services
We can assist you with developing and working towards goals for your future. To do this we can:
- Provide one on one support to you and your parents/ carers
- Hold family meetings & mediation sessions
- Help you sort out issues that are affecting your relationships
- Help your family understand how you feel and why
- Link you into other community support services
- Meet with your school and let them know how they can best support you
- Help you find an alternative training program if school isn’t working for you
- Help you find somewhere to have a short break
