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Enhance the well-being, resilience and potential of Veterans and first responders Assist Defence members and frontline personnel with support for mental health issues through fishing and mate ship.

Reeling Veterans, is a special Fishing for therapy program designed to provide, confidence, mate ship and reduce stigma. In particular, the program seeks to help clients: Understanding of how thoughts and feelings influence behavior Develop social integration: The program is more than a 'one-off' experience. It is hoped that it will provide participants with a longer-term pathway to a lifetime of fishing and potential understanding of their mental health issues. The program is veteran run and delivered by professional, Mental Health First Aid and ASSIST qualified volunteer personal. As an entry-level fishing program, no prior fishing or boating experience is required and all equipment, including boats, is provided. By the end of the program the client will: Have learned the basic boating safety rules and procedures, and how to use safety equipment Understand how thoughts can influence choices. Understand how to cook/clean fish Better understanding of mental wounds.

Yes - Reeling Veterans is a not-for-profit organisation, registered charity, governed by a volunteer Board. We are a small community organisation that provides services to more and more veterans each year. Operating for nearly 3 years in the NT, Reeling Veterans are committed to delivering quality community services of social value and practical benefit. Our vision is for a resilient and socially inclusive community that cares for the well-being of all veterans and first responders and their families. With our current agreement with Robertson barracks (Solider Recovery Centre) and the weekly trips we of them. Our current breakdown of clients we help is as such: Palmerston and surrounding suburbs 65%

Our services provide assistance to people in all stages of life. Including day fishing trips, overnight and 5-day trips, assistance for those experiencing hardship, home maintance support, transition out of Defence force support and social activities for families. Day Fishing Trips: We provide day trips to help positively support with mental health development. We offer emotional and practical support to clients and their family, and help parents develop positive parent/child relationships. Solider Recovery Centre Trips: We provide weekly trips the SRC on Robertson Barrack. These trips offer emotional and practical support to current serving. Extended Trips: We manage this activity by providing a welcoming environment for allveterans and their family. These trips allow us to provide more one on one help putinto place welfare and support networks. These trips also help with bringing familiestogether and allow for parent to child bonding. Parent Reconnect Trips: Mental illness put a lot of pressure on families. We provide parent, child trips to help reconnect them with their children and to helppromote a strong family. Community: We provide fishing trips to local families experiencing hardship, in partnership with local parliamentary minsters. We hold regular get together activitiesto bring people together to share their experience and to socialise and meet similarpeople.