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Redress Scheme Counselling

Engaging with a redress scheme can bring up a wide range of emotions like relief, grief, anger, confusion, or exhaustion. 

 

For many people, receiving an outcome doesn’t mean the process is over.

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Mend Melbourne offers trauma-informed counselling for people who have received outcomes through redress schemes and are looking for on-going support.

Who This Support Is For

The National Redress Scheme

The National Redress Scheme provides support to people who experienced institutional child sexual abuse in Australia. Counselling following an outcome can support individuals to process the emotional impact of the decision and the broader effects of the redress process.

To learn about this scheme, go to: 
https://www.nationalredress.gov.au/

Historical Childhood Institutional Abuse Redress

Also known as the Care Leavers scheme, this Victorian redress process supports people who experienced abuse or neglect while in institutional or out-of-home care. Counselling after receiving an outcome can help individuals work through the impact of their experiences and the emotions that may arise following the process.

To learn about this scheme go to: 
https://services.dffh.vic.gov.au/redress

Forced Adoption Redress Scheme

The Forced Adoption Redress Scheme recognises the harm caused by forced adoption practices. Counselling can provide a space to process grief, loss, identity questions, and the emotional impact of receiving an outcome through the scheme.
 

To learn about this scheme go to: 
https://www.vic.gov.au/redress-forced-adoptions
 

What Counselling Can Support With

People seek redress counselling for many different reasons. Sessions may support you to:

  • Process emotions connected to receiving your outcome

  • Make sense of the impact of historical abuse over time

  • Work with feelings of anger, grief, injustice, or disappointment

  • Understand nervous system responses and trauma patterns

  • Re-establish a sense of stability after the redress process

  • Feel less alone with experiences that are difficult to put into words

There is no expectation to “move on” or feel any particular way.

After Redress

Receiving an outcome doesn’t always bring closure.
For many, it marks the beginning of a new stage.

neuro affirming. 
gender affirming.
inclusive.

We acknowledge the Traditional Custodians of the land on which we live and work, the Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung people of the Kulin Nation. We pay our respects to Elders past and present and recognise their enduring connection to this land, its waters, and culture.
 

We honour the strength, wisdom, and resilience of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and acknowledge the profound and lasting impacts of colonisation, including generational trauma and the devastation caused by policies of dispossession, forced removal, and systemic injustice.
 

In this space, we also acknowledge the deep scars left by childhood sexual abuse and other forms of trauma within First Nations communities, compounded by historical and intergenerational pain. We commit to listening, learning, and working alongside First Nations peoples to foster healing, respect, and meaningful reconciliation.
 

May this acknowledgement remind us of our shared responsibility to nurture a future of justice, equity, and hope.

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