Flood Recovery Support Service Program

The Flood Recovery Support Service provides holistic support tailored to the:

    • Person
    • Situation
    • Role in the community

The Flood RSS provides a single, consistent, and trusted point of contact through a Recovery Support Worker who can:  

  • Walk alongside, acknowledging and addressing challlenges, while respecting individual strengths, recovery choices and preferences
  • Help to connect with local community resources
  • Provide support by phone, at our Ballina Office, temporary housing and in the community.

We can assist with flood recovery problems and needs including:

  • Personal Support (care and comfort)
  • Help with applying for housing and for financial assistance
  • Counselling (mental health, smoking cessation, gambling, alcohol and drug problems, domestic violence, parenting, grief and loss, support and advice)
  • Finding and linking you with other services if needed
  • Emergency food
  • Social and emotional wellbeing activities and groups

Office: 106-108 Tamar Street Ballina
Phone: 0492280781
Email: floodrss@bullinahas.org.au

All recovery services Funded under the joint Australian Government-NSW Government Disaster Recovery Funding Arrangements 2018 seek to bring together a range of government and non-government agencies to provide centralised access to advice and services.