Hello and Welcome to Phoebe House

Phoebe House is a residential treatment service for women, with children, who are currently on a program of methadone maintenance. The therapeutic program at Phoebe House provides therapeutic groups, counselling, education and support around drug dependence issues and social, material and personal well-being for women and their children. The service aims to assist women to develop their personal resources and enable themselves to enhance their lifestyles and interpersonal relationships.

Many women who come to Phoebe House are coming from backgrounds of abuse and/or unstable family and living environments, which can interfere with the development of protective and nurturing relationships with their children.

We specifically address this through the use of individual and group parenting-focussed counselling and education, and by modelling appropriate ways of interpersonal interaction and safe behaviours around children.

A large proportion of the women in Phoebe House are involved with/referred by the Department of Community Services.

Phoebe House staff are mandated notifiers if any child protection issues arise within the program. Staff liaise regularly with caseworkers from the Department of Community Services.

Phoebe house would like to thank the New South Wales Health Department, Oz Harvest, St Vincent De Paul, the Belarc Corporation (www.belarc.com) and the Microsoft Unlimited Potential Software Donation Program for their support of our service.