Brave Psychology- a safe space for children, adolescents and new and seasoned parents

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Step 1: Specify your contribution amount for Brave Psychology- a safe space for children, adolescents and new and seasoned parents

All or nothing. This project will only be funded if it reaches its goal by 12 June 2022 23:59 AEDT

Overview

Brave Psychology

Psychological therapy practice for kids, teens, new and seasoned parents

Brave Psychology, founded by Bonnie Gordon and Alysha Fameli, was opened in the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, as it became evident that children’s mental health was significantly struggling due to the pressures of isolation. We see children and adolescents of all abilities and neurodiversities, as well as providing support for new and seasoned parents. From here, a warm, safe and inviting space was created. Our hope is to expand our practice, develop a multidisciplinary team and reduce our 6 month waitlist by hiring early career psychologists. We hope to develop programs that allow more children to receive access to cost-effective, timely mental health support while also fostering belonging, connection and social inclusion.

Our goals are three-fold:

Develop a dynamic, engaging and interactive therapy space with access to a multi-disciplinary team (currently in the works!)

Provide more services to more children and parents including one-on-one therapy, group programs and social inclusion programs

Provide supportive, fairly-paid and enriching internship programs for Provisional Psychologists in the early phases of their careers

Why crowd-funding? 

As a two-woman show, with families of our own, our aim of growing our business is primarily to develop a social enterprise: a psychology service that provides timely support to kids and families and also offers a supportive and fairly paid work environment for new and provisional psychologists. Given that we do not have a product to sell, and our primary aims are ones of social profit, funding our dream has been tricky. We have our wheels in motion and need some financial backing to make our dream a reality.

Rewards

Kind Hearts - $50.00

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Our kind hearts investors will be have their names proudly displayed on a mural in our new space, to show our community the foundations in which the space was built.

Therapy program scholarship - $500

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When we have established the practice, we will be running a number of therapeutic and social inclusion programs. Cost can be a barrier for some families to access programs like these, that a therapeutic and inclusive. Your support will provide a scholarship for a child to participate in one of these programs at no cost. We will advertise scholarships in your or your businesses name.

Sponsorship program - $1500

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This generous sponsorship program will provide significant support for hiring and onboarding staff, development of therapy programs and purchase of equipment. To thank you for your contribution, we will acknowledge your generous contribution by displaying your company logo on our website and marketing material, acknowledging your generous support of our vision.

Stretch Goals

New hire support- $5000.00

Psychology practices are not provided incentives or tax breaks like other health practices. Provisional psychologists are not able to claim medicare rebates, despite being supervised and highly trained. Part of our dream is to provide sustainable, enriching and fairly paid internships for provisional psychologists that allow our service to support more children and also allows provisional psychologists an opportunity to enter the workforce in a fairly paid and supported position.

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