Choice’s Inc. ™ is an Australian Registered Business with the Australian Taxation Office, including GST registered.

Choice’s is an independent benevolent public incorporation that offers ongoing support and assistance to individual’s families and couples within the local and extended community who are experiencing hardship.

Choice’s offers a range of community resource navigators, who continue to outsource potential partnerships for the implementation of ongoing united network formation to enable service providers who assist individuals have access to a range of networks that can be implemented across a range of complex case’s with the use of multidisciplinary approaches for individuals, families and couple’s that may have particularly complex requirements, ensuring that the individuals requirements are met.

Choice’s has formed a strong team of members within our organizational team who are trained fully qualified, professionals with a wide range of experience when it comes to the practical implementation of working with individuals as they form a case management  plan with clients,

To enable that individuals have a role in the outcome that they wish to achieve by accessing services.

Choices focus on the development and implementation of secure, safe accommodation for women, families, adolescents experiencing or at high risk of experiencing family and domestic violence. 

Choices is currently striving to secure housing in an independent 2 and 3 bedroom complex of townhouse style units, as we implement a supported housing, co-op community living structure within a secure gated complex.

The purchase of 20 units within an established complex will offer subsidised rent to members accessing accommodation whilst ensuring that individuals are provided with onsite support at all times.

The addition of community style living will further be expanded with the purchase of an extra 27 townhaouse style units, for supported transitional medium term housing which will be available for adolesents  that are becoming all already new parants often who individuals have little to not support  of extended family as the new's of young unplanned pregnancy's divide even the strongest families.

Most young mother's will have thier babies, without their child's father, as they begin the transtion into parenthood, and the greater community, these young mother's often become isolated from peers throughout pregnancy, and find themselves alone scared, and unable to cope with the additon of a totaly dependant new born infant to care for.  They find it almost impossible to secure safe, stable and secure housing for themselves and child, often becoming high risk for depression, self injury, and ultamatly putting thier child in a situation of domestic and family violence including neglect.

Choice's focuses on prevention being better than cure, as we aim to assist young parants with the transtion of teenage hood and parenting, encouring that they continue with education, as we work togehter on a support plan to enable young people enter into greater society with life skills, planning and budgeting, including routine for themselves and their baby, Choice's social support workers will continue to work with adolsents up until the child is 3 years of age, as we work on providing young families with support within one of our networking orgainsations who is specilised in providing ongoing support at the same high quality to this group of yound people.

If a child lives with criticism

it learns to condemn.

If a child lives with hostility

it learns to fight.

If a child lives with ridicule

it learns to be shy.

If a child lives with shame

it learns to feel guilty.

If a child lives with tolerance

it learns to be patient.

If a child lives with encouragement

it learns confidence.

If a child lives with praise

it learns to appreciate.

If a child lives with fairness

it learns justice.

If a child lives with security

it learns to have faith.

If a child lives with approval

it learns to like itself.

If a child lives with acceptance and friendship

it learns to find love in the world.

If a child lives with criticism

it learns to condemn.

If a child lives with hostility

it learns to fight.

If a child lives with ridicule

it learns to be shy.

If a child lives with shame

it learns to feel guilty.

If a child lives with tolerance

it learns to be patient.

If a child lives with encouragement

it learns confidence.

If a child lives with praise

it learns to appreciate.

If a child lives with fairness

it learns justice.

If a child lives with security

it learns to have faith.

If a child lives with approval

it learns to like itself.

If a child lives with acceptance and friendship

it learns to find love in the world.

So many people, me included, throw around terms in everyday use without really ever defining them. So what is “good” mental health?

And what do we mean by “mental health” anyway?

Mental health is a pretty broad term.

Some use it as a simple synonym to describe our brain’s health.

Others use it more broadly to include our psychological state.

Still others will add emotions into the definition.

I believe a good definition includes all of the above.

Mental health describes our social, emotional, and psychological states, all wrapped up into one. (There are far more complicated models of mental health and wellness, but I prefer simplicity.)

But it includes something else we may not always consider — mental health, just like our physical health, operates on a continuum.

You can be completely disabled by problems in your mental health, lead a pretty happy and fulfilling life, or fall somewhere in-between these two extremes at different points in your life.

Someone who experiences “good” mental health, therefore, has found a balance in his or her social, emotional and psychological areas of life.

“Balance” is one of those squishy, new-Age-y terms that doesn’t really mean anything, so I’ll try and be more specific.

Generally a person with balance is satisfied and happy with how these areas are performing in their lives, even if it appears to someone else they are not in balance.

For instance, a hermit might enjoy perfect mental health even though he may have little or no social life.

Psychologists recognize that most people, however, need a certain amount of social contact in order to find some balance in their lives.

The same is true of our emotional needs.

Too many emotions and a person might experience a very moody, up-and-down life.

Too little, and they’re not allowing themselves an important part of the human experience — to feel (both positives and negatives).

Psychologically, if we cope with stress by working ourselves into an early grave, that may not be very healthy.

If a person learns to push down their emotions through intellectualizing, they may find it difficult to deal with their emotions in even the simplest of contexts.

From a cognitive perspective, a person will find more balance by recognizing the connections between their thoughts and feelings.

When we have good mental health, we’re in a place of peace and balance with our social, emotional and psychological states.

We have found a life that fits our needs for social connections with others.

We deal with tragedy and happiness in our lives, and authentically experience all the emotions open to us.

A person finds coping strategies and recognizes the connections between thoughts and emotions (and that they work both ways).

We all have mental health just like we all have physical health.

And just as we monitor our bodies for potential problems or pain, we should keep tabs on our mental health and try to better recognize when it needs some attention.

*Mental health and physical health are important on both sides of the coin, it is important to keep our mental health healthy as well as our physical health.