City of Logan residents experiencing anxiety, especially from recent flooding, may benefit from a free special Logan Libraries’ seminar later this month.
Clinical psychologist Dr Jodie Lowinger will use the seminar to discuss ways to curb anxiety, conquer fear and build resilience.
Dr Lowinger is the founder of Sydney Anxiety Clinic founder and author of the bestseller The Mind Strength Method.
City of Logan Mayor Darren Power said the online seminar would cover topics which had become even more prevalent over the last two years because of recent flooding and the COVID-19 pandemic.
“Anxiety stemming from the uncertainty we’ve been facing has affected many people and left them needing ways to re-focus their thoughts and alleviate their worries,” Cr Power said.
“Dr Lowinger will provide suggestions to help people deal with anxiety in a calm and constructive way.”
The What if you could turn anxiety into your superpower? online one-hour seminar by Dr Lowinger is on Thursday, March 31, from 6pm.
Bookings are essential and can be made via the library website on loganlibraries.org/what’s on or telephone 3412 5420.
A range of resources that support mental health is also available through Logan Libraries and can be accessed via the library website.
An extensive list of contact information to support community well-being and the local recovery is now available on Council’s website. Go to: Flood community support – Logan City Council.
It provides details on housing support, emergency relief, mental wellbeing support, as well as resources and contacts for disability, domestic and family violence and Culturally and Linguistically Diverse (CALD) communities.
Three Community Recovery hubs are now operating to provide a place where residents can talk to community recovery staff, receive referrals for community and government agencies and apply for hardship grants.
The hubs operate from 9am-4pm and are located at:
- Beenleigh PCYC – 20-38 Alamein Street, Beenleigh
- Caddies Community Centre – 19-33 South Street, Jimboomba
- Kingston East Neighbourhood Centre – 117 Meakin Road, Kingston.
For those who cannot get to a recovery hub, the recovery hub hotline for support service and grant advice is 1800 173 349. Language support is available through a Recovery Hotline Interpreter service on 1800 173 349.
Other flood recovery-related developments in the City of Logan include:
- Council has endorsed a flood recovery package that supports ratepayers, small business and the environment. It includes a $250 rebate for those residential properties inundated by riverine flooding. Go to Flood community support – Logan City Council.
- There also is a $300,000 support package for small businesses impacted by the flood.
- Intensive onground and aerial spraying is being done daily to help eradicate mosquito larvae.
- An extended mowing program, which now includes Saturdays, is now underway as work continues to restore the 230 parks damaged by flooding.
- Children’s Health Queensland has developed a children’s story book called Birdie and the Flood to help young children learn about recovering from floods. Download the storybook via children’s health. Copies are also available to borrow from all nine Logan City Council Libraries.
