Working
With You
Whether
you're
experiencing a few difficulties as everyone does now and again, just
needing a bit of support, or the time has come to make some important
decisions, contact us sooner rather than later. Our counsellors have the experience,
skills and contacts to make it easier for you to navigate your way
through your current situation. They will work with you providing
support and information so that you're in the best possible position
for making decisions about your future.
Areas of Expertise
Financial
- Help farm families assess
and understand their financial positions
- Assist with loan and/or
refinance applications
- Help prepare budgets and
cash flows
- Provide support and
mediation including negotiation with creditors and financial institution
- Business
financial analysis
Centerlink
Benefits
- Help to identify
eligibility for Centrelink and other Government entitlements
- Access to Centrelink claim
forms and assistance to complete
- Provide advocacy role in
dealings with Centerlink and other Government agencies
Pre-Retirement
Planning
- Facilitate decision making
and communication between family members
- Explore issues of passing
on the family farm
- Provide adjustment
counselling
Government & Financial Institutions
- Coordination
and facilitation of client access and interaction with relevant
agencies and financial institutions
- Help to access all possible social security entitlements
including Farm
Family Restart income support and re-establishment grants, Retiring
Farmers Scheme, Exceptional Circumstances support, etc
- Assistance
with completion of application forms and their lodgment
- Support
and advocacy regarding difficulties or appeals
Succession
Planning & Adjusting out of Agriculture
- Facilitation
of decision making and communication between family members
- Assistance
with issues of passing over control
- Help
with planning for the future including retirement or exiting agriculture
Personal
& Family Issues
- Providing
an independent and non-judgmental ear
- Referrals
to relevant agencies