Culture Care

Culture Care can help. We listen and provide support face-to-face in the Brisbane area or by phone. Our team includes multicultural peer support and interpreters, allowing us to offer support that reflects language, culture, and lived experience.

Culture Care also runs group programs and support groups that build social connection, provide education, and help people learn more about the services available to them.

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How can Culture Care help you?

If you look after someone in your family or community who often feels worried, stressed or sad, you may be a carer.

We can help you with:

your stress and worries
finding support, services and information
feeling less alone, by connecting you with others who understand what you are going through.

Culture Care offers two support groups for its mental health CALD carers in the community — one located on the Northside (Chermside) of Brisbane and the other on the Southside (Upper Mount Gravatt).

These groups provide a safe and welcoming environment where participants can:

share personal experiences
explore alternative coping strategies
learn simple, practical tools to enhance wellbeing
offer mutual support to fellow group members
or simply listen and reflect.

Support groups also serve as a valuable opportunity to connect carers with services and resources offered by Arafmi and the World Wellness Group (WWG), designed to assist them in their caring roles.

Let us know you are interested, by completing the face-to-face carer support groups form.

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Who can Culture Care help?

Adults (over 18) from a multicultural background who look after someone with mental ill-health. This could be a family member, a friend, a neighbour or someone in the community.
Community and faith leaders, who are often the first point of contact for support in multicultural communities.

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How do I contact Culture Care?

Call the Multicultural Line and ask for someone from Culture Care.

Phone: 1300 079 020
Open: Monday to Friday from 9am to 4:30pm

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I would like to thank you from the bottom of my heart for inviting me for the three-day retreat. After thirteen months of life in pain and distress, I got this chance to relax and learn so much. You were like an angel showing us how to cope through our hard days and our life especially dealing with our loved ones who are not well. Sharing your knowledge and teaching basic and 'powerful' skills, gave me the strength and courage to put the past behind and move on to a better future.

I have come back home with good hopes for a better life.

Thanks for being with us throughout the three days cooking for us and driving us around, taking us for dinner etc. I would also like to thank all the staff there for making us feel special and the hugs and kindness. May God bless you all and your families.

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How can carers contact Arafmi?

Phone:

24-hr Carer Support Line
1300 554 660 

24-hr Regional Queensland
1800 351 881 (free call from landline and mobile).

Email: carersupport@arafmi.com.au