Cancer Hub is here to help families impacted by cancer (with children aged 0-25) more easily access the practical and emotional support they need.
Their children’s counselling service is specifically designed for children with cancer and their siblings, ranging in age from five to 18 years old.
They offer a range of activities to help children explore their emotions in a safe and supportive environment. These activities might include games, puzzles, emotion cards, drawing, playing with toy animals and playdough, meditation, and mindfulness exercises. Through these activities, children can learn to identify their strengths, take care of their emotional wellbeing, and develop tools to cope with change.
Counselling sessions focus on different aspects of mental health, including feelings, self-esteem, and resilience. They encourage creativity and self-expression, and their social workers are trained to provide age-appropriate support to children of all ages.
Publicly available mental health information and self-help resources.
Self-help resources and low intensity interventions, including digital mental health, group and peer supports.
A mix of self-help resources, including digital mental health and low intensity interventions. Also psychological services for individuals who require them.
High intensity services including periods of intensive intervention that may involve multidisciplinary support. Where issues may be persistent or episodic without a high level of risk, complexity or disability.
Intensive team-based specialist assessment and intervention (typically state/territory mental health services) with involvement from a range of different mental health professionals including case managers, psychiatrists, allied health workers, and GPs. Includes a high level of risk, disability or complexity.