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The Phoenix Centre is a program area within the Migrant Resource Centre offering specialist services including:

counselling
advocacy
community development programs
natural therapies
other human rights violations

for survivors of torture and trauma.

About Our Clients

Our clients are people who have had pre-migration experience of torture, conflict related trauma and other human rights violations. Most of our clients have arrived in Australia as refugees or as humanitarian entrants. Some arrived as migrants, particularly after the Second World War.

According to the United Nations, a refugee is

“ . . Someone who, owing to a well-founded fear of being persecuted for reasons of race, religion, nationality, membership of a particular social group or political opinion, is outside the country of his/her nationality and is unable or, owing to such fear, unwilling to avail themselves of the protection of that country”.

Our Staff

Phoenix Centre staff are qualified and experienced as counsellors, community advocates and community development workers

Our Services

The Phoenix Centre provide

counselling with individuals and groups
massage and natural therapies
community development activities
referrals to other health and community services
advocacy on behalf of our clients with other services

Support Services for Older Migrants

We offer individual and group activities for older people, including people who are arrived in Australia as migrants in the 1940's, 1950's, and 1960's having been exposed to traumatic events during World War. This program receives funding from HACC (Home and Community Care – a joint Commonwealth State initiative)

Training

The Phoenix Centre offers education and training to community groups and to health and other service providers to support them to provide more effective services to survivors of torture and trauma. Training includes:

cross-cultural training and use of interpreters
training in addressing different aspects of trauma