Other Services Balunu Delivers

Through the delivery of youth and family healing programs, Balunu provides the following services in the pre and post camp follow up and as requested by Darwin’s indigenous community:

• Support youth through police liaison, legal and court support;
  
• Support youth re engagement with education providers(schools and TAFE) and encouraging increased school attendance;
  
• Support families through family court orders and legal matters;
  
• Support prison inmates at Berrimah gaol with healing sessions provided at the gaol;
  
• Support youth detained at Don Dale Juvenile Centre with healing sessions provided at the centre;
  
• Support for youth to find crisis accommodation;
  
• Support with applications for assistance to Centrelink;
  
• Support to prepare for employment, develop resumes, training;

Through the delivery of these ancillary services, Balunu has developed collaborative partnerships and a cross referral system with the following organisations and professional service providers:

• Danila Dilba Health ;
  
• Drug and Alcohol Intensive Support for Youth (DAISY);
  
• Mission Australia;
  
• Anglicare Youth Housing program;
  
• Casy House Youth Refuge;
  
• Stanley House Medium Term Accommodation;
  
• Anglicare Connect Youth Homelessness Early Intervention Services;
  
• YWCA;
  
• Royal Darwin Hospital Cowdy Ward;
  
• North Australian Aboriginal Justice Association (NAAJA)
  
• NAPCAN;
  
• NT Anti Discrimination Commission;
  
• Ironbark Employment;
  
• Centerlink;
  
• NT Aids & Hepatitis Council;
  
• Fred Hollows Foundation

A detailed list of Balunu’s interaction with each of the above service providers is provided in Demand for Services on page 20.