Understanding the NDIS session is designed to assist carers to understand what the NDIS is and how to apply for a NDIS package.
This Understanding the NDIS, Carer Coach session is designed to assist carers to understand what the NDIS is, who is eligible to apply and how to apply for an NDIS package.
In this Creating and Maintaining Healthy Personal Boundaries workshop we will look at what boundaries are and how and when to practice steps to set personal boundaries. We need boundaries to protect us, put us in charge of our own lives, promote health relationships, independence and reduce stress.
We are trialling a new initiative - Coffee Connect. You will be able to drop in, have a chat and catch up with other carers.
10am last Saturday of each month. Our Inner Brisbane Carer Support Group offers a supportive environment where people have the opportunity to talk about their feelings, help explore alternative ways of coping, offer support to other group members, or to simply listen and observe. Support groups are also a valuable means of informing carers of Arafmi services and resources that are available to assist their caring role.
Our Online Carer Support Group offer a supportive environment where people have the opportunity to talk about their experiences, help explore alternative ways of coping, offer support to other group members, or to simply listen and observe.
Our Carindale Carer Support Group offers a supportive environment where people have the opportunity to talk about their experiences, help explore alternative ways of coping, offer support to other group members, or to simply listen and observe.
Welcome to the October Arafmi Book Club! Each month we choose a book to read and then discuss via Zoom. It's a great way to connect with others and also read some books that you may or may not have considered before. The next book we will be reading is The Rosie Project by Australian author, Graeme Simsion. Written in 2013, the book is an international bestseller with over 3 million copies sold worldwide. Simsion has followed this up with two more instalments – The Rosie Effect and The Rosie Result. Don Tillman is getting married. He just doesn’t know who to yet. But he has designed the Wife Project, using a sixteen-page questionnaire to help him find the perfect partner. She will most definitely not be a barmaid, a smoker, a drinker, or a late-arriver. Rosie Jarman is all these things. She is also fiery and intelligent and beautiful. And on a quest of her own to find her biological father—a search that Don, a professor of genetics, might just be able to help her with. The Wife Project teaches Don some unexpected things. Why earlobe length is an inadequate predictor of sexual attraction. Why quick-dry clothes aren’t...
Communicating with the Person you Support workshop provides carers with communication skills to build a strong and respectful relationship with the person they support.
Communicating with the Person you Support workshop provides carers with communication skills to build a strong and respectful relationship with the person they support.
Join us for a coffee catch-up each Thursday at The Coffee Club in West End. One of our awesome carer support team members will be available from 8am – 10am at a dedicated Arafmi table in the cafe where you can drop in, have a chat and catch up with us and other carers. There's no need to RSVP but you're welcome to contact us at carersupport@arafmi.com.au if you have any questions.
Our Indooroopilly Carer Support Group offers a supportive environment where people have the opportunity to talk about their feelings, help explore alternative ways of coping, offer support to other group members, or to simply listen and observe. Support groups are also a valuable means of informing carers of Arafmi services and resources that are available to assist their caring role.
Arafmi acknowledges Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander peoples as the First Nations peoples of Australia and recognises their continuing connection to country, waters, kin, and communities. We pay our respect to Elders past, present and future and are committed to ensuring that Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander peoples voices are heard and respected across Queensland.
