Fresh Hope
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‘Fresh Hope’ is a non-profit community based organisation with a family-orientated rehabilitation program. The Fresh Hope Program is designed for mothers and their children who have become dependent on the use of drugs and alcohol as a coping mechanism in response to crises in their lives.
Fresh Hope is a live in drug rehabilitation home and the only home in Queensland that provides a safe haven for mothers and their children during the rehabilitation process.
In 1998, a Canberra survey found that of women seeking detoxification, 53% had children, although 38% had lost custody of all or some of their children. More than one third of the respondents stated that the lack of childcare facilities was a significant deterrent to detoxification (Goldflam, 1999).
At the present time in Queensland, if a mother has a substance abuse problem she must either give up her children to her family or the Department of Child Safety, when she enters a residential center. We hold the view that this not only adds to a mother's struggle to be rehabilitated, but also causes unnecessary trauma for the child. Kept together, there are benefits for both mother and child, enabling both parties to form attachments that are often never known previously. Therefore, at Fresh Hope we work with both the mothers and their children.
Fresh Hope is breaking the Generational Cycle by empowering mothers to develop a drug free, healthy lifestyle, ultimately enabling them to parent more effectively. Providing ‘Fresh Hope’ to a generation who through drug or alcohol abuse, have lost hope.
