Family Counselling Support

Who is eligible?

• Parents, grandparents or siblings of children, adolescents and young adults treated for cancer or within the Children’s Cancer Centre in Australia;
• Children, adolescents, and young adults treated for cancer or other diseases within the Children’s Cancer Centre in Australia aged up to 18 years;
• Individuals must be either on active treatment, or within 5 years of treatment

Number of sessions funded:

All eligible applicants can apply for multiple types of funding. See the table below for funding details:

Note: All mental health providers must be registered and eligible for membership with their relevant professional body and provide evidence of registration and membership eligibility to the Psycho-oncology lead in the relevant Children’s Cancer Centre for referral.

How do I apply?

Individuals and families can either self-refer or ask the hospital to facilitate a referral and use the form below to submit their application.

Hospital Mental Health Clinician/Social Worker referral

• Explains how to access a Mental Health Care Plan from the family GP;
• Provides contact details for 2 or 3 local psychologists/mental health provider for the family to consider;
• Seeks permission to provide family contact details through the below application form to the Children’s Cancer Foundation to arrange approval for funding

Direct referral

• Individual obtains a Mental Health Care Plan from their GP;
• Where a non-Medicare rebate option is required, evidence of provider registration and membership is provided with the application;
• The individual/family submits their details through the below application form to obtain approval for funding;
• The individual/family selects their own service provider, books and attends sessions and pays for the sessions

Payments

• Individual sends appropriate receipts to [email protected]
• The Foundation process payments around ~15th and ~30th of each month