Our ATSI Programs comprise rehabilitation programs that are offered by our qualified employees in dealing with substance dependency and mental health issues.

1.0 Djurumin Rehabilitation Program

Djurumin Rehabilitation program is a substance dependencies program offered by FirstCare in collaboration with local AMS (Aboriginal Medical Services) and Worrigee Medical centre. The program has three spheres: Prevention and Early Intervention, Detoxification and Residential programs.

1.1 Prevention and Early Intervention includes:
  • Assessment of the dominance of substance dependencies in the community
  • Provision of information about substance dependencies and other relevant resources to individuals, families, and community
  • Identification of vulnerable groups who will be the target group for prevention
  • Linking service users with relevant stakeholders
  • Capacity-building in promoting resilience to substance dependencies and increasing coping and stress management skills
  • Capacity-building of people affected or likely to be affected by substance dependency
  • Education of individuals, families and community members by raising awareness about substance dependencies Promotion of a healthy lifestyle for the community.
    • 1.2 Detoxification

    FirstCare has recognised detoxification as an essential process in assisting people with substance dependencies challenges. Detoxification addresses the physical dimension of dependencies. Detoxification benefits our service users by effectively:

    Stemming cravings, as care is supervised administering medication to relieve our service users of any uncomfortable or severe effects of withdrawal, and to temper drug-dependencies impulses providing a person-centred support system that acts as a calming mental, physical and emotional balm when our service users are presented with challenges of coping with the detoxification process.

    1.3 Residential program (8 weeks)

    FirstCare provides in-patient services – individual and group counselling and other activities designed to assist the emotional healing for a person in recovery.

    The program includes:

  • Education-focused group work on issues important for drug and alcohol recovery, such as communication skills, stress management, relapse prevention, relationships and information on the impact of substance use.
  • Trauma-related counselling for individuals
  • Relapse prevention skills
  • Multi-family education groups
  • Consultation sessions with one resident and one family member at a time
  • Treatment for Co-occurring Disorders
  • A twelve-step program for groups wanting to recover from dependencies, compulsion and other behavioural challenges or other behavioural problems.

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