Found 34 Counselling & Help Line volunteering opportunities in Australia

Maroondah Winter Shelter provides a safe and warm place for homeless males to stay overnight during the winter months, 7 nights per week. Home cooked meals are provided. As a volunteer you would be making a difference to the lives of those who have been sleeping rough. Being able to listen, show care and treat our guests with dignity and compassion is what we ask for.

Can you help to heat up meals, serve meals or do dishes? Chat with guests and share a meal with them. Our guests are isolated or financially disadvantaged people who need some extra support with meals and being with community.

The key role of community connector volunteers in this project is to assist with enabling socially isolated people (primarily 65+) who have been referred from a range of services, including health practitioners, to determine what community activities they would like to participate in and overcome any barriers to participation.

Anglicare Victoria is looking for volunteer Youth Mentors in several locations

PANDA is seeking Peer Support Volunteers to work on its National Helpline. The National Perinatal Anxiety and Depression Helpline provides support, information, counselling and referral to people experiencing perinatal anxiety and depression. Volunteers MUST be parents or grandparents who have had a lived experience of perinatal anxiety and depression (self or carer) or have faced other significant challenges in the perinatal period.

We are looking for energetic volunteers to join our Mackay Street Outreach Service team and to engage, encourage and empower Service Users through the provision of a mobile support, referral and educational services in which those who engage our services feel supported by our Outreach program.

We provide free counselling to young people across Perth, Metro and Peel regions. Young people accessing counselling can also access our free 1 - 1 mentoring program. Youth Focus delivers frontline services and education programs which aim to reduce symptoms associated with suicide, depression, anxiety and self-harm, and build long-term mental wellbeing to help young people reach their full potential.

We are looking for people who can share some time to work with residents in sharing a space to explore mindfulness and reflection. This is a proven practice for people to be in the moment and reflect on their environment and their wellbeing.

We are looking for energetic volunteers to join our Brisbane Street Outreach Service team to bring services to the homeless in the inner-city. You will engage, encourage and empower service users and the homeless through mobile support, referral and educational services. Our mission is that those who engage our services and experiences homelessness feel supported by our Outreach program. This service travels from Buranda to locations in the CBD. #homeless #homelessness #brisbane #drugarm

Would you like to volunteer your time to support people who are experiencing homelessness to shelter from extreme weather conditions? The S.A.F.E Centre – Christies Beach Baptist Church, in collaboration with 4H (Hope, Help, Housing and Homelessness) Collective, Noarlunga Uniting Church and City of Onkaparinga are open for expressions of interest for volunteers to support a new Onkaparinga based Homeless Shelter.

We are looking for Volunteer mentors to be matched with young people engaged in counselling at Youth Focus. These mentors will provide a positive role model in a young persons life, helping them to build confidence and skills with the community setting.

Volunteers are the backbone to our harm minimization services ( Needle & Syringe Program ) and assist in community events for Health Promotion to reduce and eliminate viral Hepatitis. Clients are from all walks of life and include PWID, those experiencing trauma, may be street present, itinerant, living with AOD or other complex issues.

To assist in the provision of accurate and up to date information on supports services, service referral pathways and other relevant community information. Operating within the Centre’s policies, procedures and standards and the relevant Government Legislation, Laws and Acts.

To provide information, support and referral services to clients in a one on one basis, in a confidential and impartial manner, operating within the Centre’s policies, procedures and standards and the relevant Government Legislation, Laws and Acts. At all times maintaining the client’s right to make his/her own choices and decision.