Welcome to CommStrength

CommStrength is a Newcastle based and operated community charity with the aim of preventing youth suicide in Newcastle and the Hunter Valley. As a benevolent, not for profit institution, CommStrength serves to answer and support the needs of young people at risk in the community.

“CommStrength is a community based, not for profit, benevolent foundation aimed at giving our youth hope, possibility and a brighter future”.

CommStrength’s work is well represented at national conferences and in other bodies organised to assist young people. The Foundation seeks to draw together specialists from many areas of caring and other professions to focus upon the particular needs of those who are at risk of or who have attempted suicide.

What support does CommStrength provide?

Research shows that one in five Australians will experience a mental illness every year with depression and anxiety being the most prevalent. Yet, two thirds of people with a mental illness do not receive any treatment in any 12 month period.

CommStrength provides help and assistance that is appropriate to the young person’s circumstance. Most work involves:

• Counselling
• Advocacy
• Support through hospitalization
• Personal financial organisation
• Family mediation
• Employment pathways