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What we do
Two doors in, one warm welcome.
Whether you are a parent looking for understanding or a neighbour who needs a hand this week, there is a place for you with PFLAG Tasmania and the Cygnet Community Hub.
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Door one
Support for LGBTIQA+ families.
PFLAG Tasmania offers support, information and social connection for parents, families, friends and allies of lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans and gender diverse, intersex, queer and asexual people. We talk about the things families actually worry about: coming out, a child who is transitioning, faith and extended family, school, safety, and mental health.
Conversations happen one-to-one by phone or email, and in small peer groups. Over the years groups have met in Hobart, Cygnet, Launceston, Burnie, Devonport and on the East Coast. Contact us for current times and the meeting closest to you.
Because we are part of the wider PFLAG movement, families who move away can find a PFLAG group almost anywhere. As our convenor puts it, you can go to a chapter anywhere in the world and you will be welcome.
Door two
The Cygnet Community Hub.
Our Hub sits in the front rooms of the Cygnet Town Hall at 14 Mary Street. It is a drop-in centre for mental health wellness, suicide prevention and health promotion, for every age group and everyone in the community.
Drop-in and a cuppa
Come in, sit down and talk. No appointment and no referral needed.
Counselling and timely support
Mental health support when you need it, and referral to health and wellbeing organisations.
Food relief
Help with food for people doing it tough, supported by our community garden.
Transport
Lifts to appointments for people on the isolated side of the river.
Community events
Gatherings, workshops and social prescribing that reconnect people with their community.
Safe space
Support for women experiencing family violence, people at risk of homelessness and anyone who feels alone.
The community garden
From food relief to food that lasts.
Food parcels help today. A garden helps every week. Our community garden grows fresh produce to support food relief and teaches skills that move people toward food sustainability.
The garden is also a calm, safe place for people with lived experience of mental ill-health and suicide to spend time outdoors, work with their hands and be around others without pressure.
Who we help
Everyone, and especially …
Parents, carers and grandparents
Of children, teens and adults who are lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, gender diverse, intersex, queer or asexual.
LGBTIQA+ young people
With particular care for young people who are transitioning, or who can’t or don’t want to go home.
People who are isolated or doing it tough
Including people who are unemployed, on low incomes, living with chronic illness or disability, or at risk of homelessness.
Women experiencing family violence
A safe, discreet place to talk and be linked with specialist services.
Reach out
Start with one conversation.
There is no donation page here. If you are a parent, a grandparent, a friend or a young person who needs someone to listen, the best first step is simply to get in touch.