Victorian Redress Counselling Service
The Restore Consortium was established in 2018 as a result of the Victorian Governments participation in the National Redress Scheme that was set up following the 2013-2017 Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse.
Restore is a counselling and cultural healing service for people who have experienced institutional child sexual abuse in Victoria, and have accepted an offer of counselling and psychological care from the National Redress Scheme.
(CLAN) CLAN is a specialist service run by Care Leavers & all staff are Care Leaver informed. We offer support advocacy & counselling for all family members, assist with records requests, publish a bi-monthly newsletter & also have a library.
drummond street services provides Restore counselling and advocacy for survivors of institutional child sexual abuse. We take an intersectional lens when working with diverse groups of clients, we also highly value peer led and specialist whole of family approach.
Ngarra Jarra Noun offers a culturally safe support and healing service according to the needs of Aboriginal survivors. We believe that cultural healing and connection are critical to the ongoing wellbeing of Aboriginal survivors.
South Eastern Centre Against Sexual Assault (SECASA) – lead agency for Restore for the Victorian Centres Against Sexual Assault (CASA). There are 14 CASAs across the state that offer specialist counselling, advocacy and other support services to survivors of institutional child sexual abuse and their families.
When you contact Restore we will provide you with your counselling and cultural healing options, so you can decide what best suits you. Please also have your Redress letter of offer handy.
If you have an existing counsellor and/or Aboriginal cultural healing provider, please contact Restore to discuss continuing these arrangements.
If you find it difficult to hear or speak, you can contact us through the National Relay Service:1800 555 660 or relayservice.gov.au
If you require an interpreter, please contact the Translating and Interpreting Service on 131 450 or at tisnational.gov.au and ask them to contact Restore on your behalf.
A complaint or compliment form is available at: restorecounselling.org.au
SECASA is the largest family violence and sexual assault service provider across the south-east metropolitan Melbourne.
SECASA acknowledges the Traditional Custodians of the land, the Wurundjeri and Boonwurrung peoples, and we pay our respects to them, their culture and their Elders past, present and future.
We welcome lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, gender diverse, intersex and queer people into SECASA. We pledge to provide inclusive non-discriminatory services to LGBTIQ+ clients.
SECASA acknowledges all victims/survivors of all forms of abuse and neglect.