Better Together Community Support

About Better Together Community Support

Better Together Community’s mission is to provide a variety of services to the people of the greater Tablelands region to help them improve their emotional, and physical well-being so they can contribute and participate in a strong and cohesive community.

Programs

Better Together is a community-based organisation providing services across the Tablelands. Services provided by Better Together include:
• Charitable services to meet identified needs in support of people in emergency or crisis situations
• Psychological Services
• Support Programmes to improve child safety and support youth at risk
• Programmes to reduce harm through substance misuse
• Programmes to improve community skills and well being
• Transport Services for Pensioners and Frail Aged
• Home Maintenance ; Modifications Services.

Intake, assessment and referral

Open referral, anyone can make an appointment. The initial assessment will be conducted in person, via the phone, or on client’s choice.

Bulkbilling to our Psychological services requires:

• A doctor’s referral under the Better Access Medicare initiative
• A Referral from the Department of Veteran Affairs or Veteran and Veteran’s Family Counselling Service

Eligibility under one of the Government funded initiatives such as:

• Drug and Alcohol Counselling funded by the Commonwealth Department of Health
• Family Support Counselling funded by the State Dept. of Communities (individuals or families with children under 18 only)
• Counselling for Carers under My Aged Care

For private patients, there is a fee of $120 per hour to access CST’s psychological services.

Additional information

Outreach service is available by appointment and only at location offices in Mareeba and Ravenshoe (no in-home appointments).

They have capacity to provide appointments online for video or phone appointments, please contact the service for more information.