What is an Employee Assistance Program? An Employee Assistance Program (EAP) is a work-based intervention program designed to enhance the emotional, mental and general psychological wellbeing of all employees and includes services for immediate family members. Footsteps Community Services EAP is available to all organisations. But due to the in-depth knowledge that we have within[…]
The Footsteps Trauma Program (FTP) offers assessment and treatment to children who have experienced interpersonal traumas, including but not limited to witnessing domestic violence, physical and sexual abuse, separation from a caregiver, and community violence. Our services include: Child-parent psychotherapy. Perinatal child-parent psychotherapy. Co-parenting child-parent psychotherapy. Trauma-focused screening and assessment. Crisis intervention. Case management and[…]
What is it? Imagine that you see a wild dangerous animal while walking through a forest. In response to this threat, your body switches into “fight or flight ” mode. To survive, your body releases emergency stress hormones, like adrenaline and cortisol, that cause your heartbeat to quicken, make your eyes dilate and focus your[…]
There are unique circumstances associated with raising a child with a disability that families of typically developing children may not experience. However, families of children with a disability have hopes, dreams, and concerns for their children just like any other family. Whether the child experiences a physical disability, developmental disability, or a learning disability. Footsteps[…]
Autism spectrum disorder is the term used to describe a group of disorders that includes autism, Asperger’s syndrome and pervasive developmental disorder (also known as atypical autism). The symptoms associated with autism appear early in a child’s development and this is why it is considered to be a ‘developmental disorder’. The term ‘spectrum’ is used[…]
The National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS), designed to support people with a disability, uses an insurance approach (a bit like Medicare) to share service and support costs across the wider community. All Australian tax payers contribute to the scheme and it’s administered by the National Disability Insurance Agency (NDIA), a commonwealth level government agency. The[…]
We are frequently asked, “What is a disability?”. The Disability Services Act (1993) defines ‘disability’ as: An intellectual, psychiatric, cognitive, neurological, sensory or physical impairment or a combination of those impairments; It is permanent or likely to be permanent; It may or may not be of a chronic or episodic nature; and Results in substantially[…]
