• How can we respond effectively to individuals and groups who are experiencing great hardship?

• How can we acknowledge, sustain, and strengthen people’s own skills of survival?

The Dulwich Centre Foundation and Dulwich Centre Foundation International work with children and adults who have experienced significant trauma or adversity. To date, we have worked in Australia, Rwanda, Israel, Russia, East Timor, the Palestinian Territories, and elsewhere.

As not-for-profit charitable organisations, we respond to groups and communities facing mental health difficulties as the result of significant hardships (trauma, violence, drug and alcohol issues, grief and loss, poverty, racism, discrimination, dispossession, war, and so on).

The work of the Foundation involves:

• direct counselling and community work with individuals, groups, and communities

• developing respectful, effective, and culturally-appropriate methodologies to respond to community mental health issues and collective trauma

• working in partnership with local communities to engage with children, young people, and adults using these methodologies

• building the capacity of local mental health workers/community members to address mental health issues in a range of contexts.

The Dulwich Centre Foundation is linked with Dulwich Centre which, over the last 25 years, has established a national and international reputation in relation to the development, provision, and training of narrative therapy and community work.

Methodologies developed at Dulwich Centre have been taught in many university courses, and adopted by many counselling, mental health, and community organisations both in Australia and overseas.

This following pages provide overviews of some of the projects we have worked on recently, as well as the services we offer, resources we have available, and training we provide.