About Islamicare
Supporting Australian Muslim families through youth and parenting challenges.
Welcome to Islamicare – Youth & Parenting Helpline
Islamicare aims to support Australian Muslim families who are experiencing difficulties in a modern world with many social challenges. They can vary from inter-generational communication problems between parents and their teenage children to more complex situations with children experiencing drug and alcohol abuse or mental health issues.
This website is designed to give you ideas and suggestions on tackling some of these issues. We want to be the first port of call and if our experienced counsellors can't help you directly, then we can put you in touch with professionals that will deal with your matter discreetly and confidentially.
Who We Are
We are a small community of dedicated Muslim Australians who want to make sure that parents are not excluded from the solution to the problems facing our youth.
Our Team
We have Muslim youth workers, counsellors, imams and lawyers and business people behind the scenes addressing the issue of disaffected youth.
Why Do We Need This Site?
Being a youth today is extremely difficult let alone thinking about your religious duties and responsibilities. As a Muslim youth, there are issues around marginalization, identity and clash of cultures.
If a parent has difficulty connecting with their son or daughter then it is important that there are some pathways to supporting or assisting parents and young people to ensure that there are more positive steps to help prevent the disconnect.
Unfortunately, there are no culturally sensitive services offered by mainstream organisations and many Muslim callers have found that there needs are not being completely met or understood and this site attempts to bridge the gap for some of those culturally sensitive and competent issues.