April Dowling is a Regional Outreach Counsellor/ Project Officer at NSW SERVICE FOR THE TREATMENT AND REHABILITATION OF TORTURE AND TRAUMA SURVIVORS (STARTTS). Prior to this, April worked as a Mental Health Practitioner at Anglicare Sydney, providing psychological and psychosocial interventions to Aged Care Facility residents. April also has experience as a Swimming Instructor at In The Deep Swim School, where April delivered lessons and trained new staff. Additionally, April has experience as a Social Work Student at various organizations, including NSW Justice Health & Forensic Mental Health Network, where April designed presentations and developed resources for the social work team. April holds a Bachelor of Social Work (Honours)/ Arts from UNSW.
NSW SERVICE FOR THE TREATMENT AND REHABILITATION OF TORTURE AND TRAUMA SURVIVORS (STARTTS)
STARTTS is the NSW Service for the Treatment and Rehabilitation of Torture and Trauma Survivors. We provide services to assist people from refugee and refugee-like backgrounds who have experienced torture or other traumatic events before arriving in Australia or as past of their refugee journey. We do this by helping individual refugees and families recover from their experiences, working with refugee community groups to foster empowerment and self-determination, and supporting other organisations and individuals working with refugees. We have been working to heal trauma since 1988 and we are now one of Australia’s leading organisations for the treatment and rehabilitation of torture and trauma survivors.