Student Care Welfare Queensland Inc

On the 6^th of January 2013.

The Sunday Mail published an article “50 kind and compassionate people who bring a world of joy to others”.

Co-founder of student care welfare Charles Wheeler was mentioned in this article. The publication read “He helps rebuild the lives of young people who have      been shattered by abuse.  His use of teddy bears helps kids tell the stories”.

Photograph used with the kind permission of the Courier Mail.

Student Care Welfare Queensland Inc. is reaching out to kids in refuges who are in need of support.

Helen Whittan of Ozcare says:

'Student Care Welfare Queensland Inc. offers counselling and programs tailor-made to children offering expert professional support. The level of service they provide to the children at the Refuge is invaluable. Ozcare can only hope that funding of this amazing service continues as, should the service falter, it would only be detrimental to the health and wellbeing of the children at the Refuge and all the other facilities they service.'

Emeritus Professor Lauchlan Chipman currently at Bond University writes:[

“Charles Wheeler has the ability to enable young people who have spiralled down to the pits to genuinely believe in their own worth. In some cases it is a matter or restoring that belief; in others it is giving them something they have never had. This requires extraordinary patience and tact, not least because for most of these people bitter experience has led them to regard trust as a dirty word. In the hard climb back he helps them find skills they never thought were in their power, and talents they never knew they had. This is in no way welfare provision. It is assisting these people away from despair and self-loathing towards a justified confidence in their own worth and in their own power to achieve in the real world, from which they had fled or been driven out. It takes time. It takes money, though what Charles and his team achieve with a budget that can generously be described as frugal is extraordinary. The more that is achieved, the more calls there are on this work.

It is hard to imagine Charles ever saying no—he somehow finds a way. Sadly, he also bears the cost in terms of the toll this must take on any person’s health. Yet when you wonder how he’s going to be able to keep going, he finds the stamina to do even more, simply because it needs to be done, and if he and his people do not do it, chances are no one else will.”

Student Care Welfare Queensland Inc. was formed on February 1st 2004, by Peter Morrow, and Charles Wheeler.
While being a newly formed charity, our entire staff consisted of highly experienced professionals, who chose to add SCWQ to an extensive career in counselling, welfare or humanitarian work.
Thankfully, we continue to benefit from the expertise of trained and experienced counsellors who assist with ongoing innovation in the fields of play therapy and child psychology.
SCWQ absorbed the workload of a now closed local charity (QASA), while also carving its own unique niche offering further developed services with a fresh approach and an extremely high standard of care and compassion.

Student Care Welfare Queensland Inc. provides the following support services, and programs directed specifically at the objective of helping young Queenslanders to overcome their problems, to find happiness and fulfil their dreams:

• School Curriculum Diaries art competition allowing children to illustrate their thoughts on various problems that exist in their world.
• Drug Education and pro-active Counselling for those with drug/alcohol problems.
• Life Skill Education school seminars to create positive attitudes and self-esteem to counteract negative influences.
• Crisis Intervention face to face counselling in the event of a crisis involving drugs/abuse/bullying/family problems etc.
• Delivery of Food and Clothing when and where necessary.
• Intervention programs, and specialised counselling.
• Research and Lobbying on behalf of children at risk and parents in crisis.

WE NEED YOUR HELP!

We need financial support to provide these essential services to our children. We are entirely funded by donations and sponsorship from Queensland based companies and private individuals. Apart from promotional opportunities in school publications, our sponsors/donors support our programs as their contributions to a better and fairer society.