Open Arms group treatment programs focus on addressing mental health problems commonly experienced within the veteran community. These programs include:
- Doing Anger Differently
- Recovery from Trauma
- Understanding Anxiety
- Managing Pain
- Sleeping Better
- Beating the Blues.
Our educational workshops focus on suicide prevention or on skill-building to promote resilience. The suicide prevention workshops are for people wanting to learn how to recognise that someone is struggling and how to help them to get support. These workshops include
- Applied Suicide Intervention Skills Training (ASIST)
- Suicide Alertness for Everybody (safeTALK)
- Mental Health First Aid (MHFA)
- ASIST Tune-Up.
The
resilience and skill-building workshops are particularly useful for veterans and
families during transition periods in their lives and include ‘Stepping Out’,
parenting, stress management and mindfulness workshops, as well as half-day
information sessions on chronic pain, anger, managing anxiety and recovering
from trauma.
The Open Arms group program and workshop calendar is planned six months in
advance and the most recent version can be found at www.openarms.gov.au/get-support. If there is
enough interest in a specific area additional workshops can be organised.
If you want to talk to a counsellor, or find out more about our services, Open
Arms’s free and confidential telephone line is available 24 hours a day, seven
days a week on 1800 011 046.
