Recovery that keeps mothers and children together.
Reset is a reunification-first residential home where mothers heal from addiction without giving up their children. Clinically supported, government-funded, and built for the families WA's system too often leaves waiting.
150+
people wait for government-funded rehab in WA — mothers should never have to choose treatment or their kids.
Mothers + children togetherReunification-firstAOD clinical governanceOnsite therapeutic childcareCulturally safeStep-down housing pathwayThe gap we exist to close
WA has residential rehab. It rarely has room for her children.
Established programs do vital work — but a mother facing detox is usually told to hand her children to relatives or the state to get help. For many, that trade is impossible, so they never start treatment, and the cycle continues into the next generation.
The waitlist
150+ people queue for government-funded residential rehab in WA at any given time, with waits stretching for months while lives — and custody — hang in the balance.
The separation
Very few WA facilities keep mothers and their children together. Fear of losing custody is one of the strongest reasons mothers avoid or leave treatment early.
The system
Child-protection reunification depends on documented, supervised stability — yet almost no residential setting is built to produce that evidence while a mother recovers.
Our approach
One home, designed around a single hard problem.
Reset isn't a general rehab that happens to allow children. Every part of it — the building, the roster, the care plan — is engineered to keep a family intact while a mother recovers and works toward reunification.
Mothers and children stay together
Separation is the single biggest reason mothers delay or drop out of treatment. At Reset, children live alongside their mother in a self-contained family room while she recovers — no forced separation, no choosing between treatment and custody.
Built around reunification, not just abstinence
Every placement runs on a shared care plan with the Department of Communities. Reset is designed as the safe, supervised environment where DCP-involved mothers can demonstrate stability, rebuild routine, and restore custody — with progress documented for the court.
A real home, not a ward
Twelve residential family beds in a warm, domestic setting. Shared kitchens, private bedrooms, outdoor space and onsite childcare so mothers can attend groups, counselling and appointments knowing their children are cared for metres away.
What's inside
The support that makes it work
Clinical AOD governance
Onsite alcohol & other drug counsellors, nurse-led health checks and a visiting GP and psychiatrist. Withdrawal is managed through partner detox before admission.
Coordinated with DCP & courts
Structured reporting, supervised contact and case-conferencing built in — so a mother's recovery evidence flows straight into her reunification plan.
Onsite therapeutic childcare
Qualified educators care for children during group therapy and appointments, with child-development and attachment support woven through the day.
Trauma-informed for mothers
Programming designed for the reality of maternal addiction: shame, family violence, intergenerational trauma and the fear of losing your children.
Step-down to independent living
A staged pathway from residential care to community housing with continued outreach, so gains hold after a family leaves the home.
Culturally safe by design
Aboriginal-led cultural support and yarning circles, recognising the over-representation of First Nations mothers in the WA child-protection system.
The home
Somewhere that feels like a beginning, not an institution.
Reset opens with twelve self-contained family beds in a domestic-scale home in the Perth metro area — private bedrooms, shared kitchens and living spaces, a secure garden, and an onsite childcare room, all within reach of clinical partners.
- Private family bedrooms — mother and children together
- Shared kitchens and living areas that rebuild daily routine
- Onsite therapeutic childcare and a children's play space
- Group and counselling rooms for onsite clinical work
Where Reset fits
Complementing WA's services — not duplicating them
Programs like Cyrenian House's Saranna, Shalom House and the Salvation Army's Harry Hunter Centre do important work across the recovery landscape. Reset occupies the narrow, underserved niche between them: the mother who needs residential AOD treatment, her children beside her, and a reunification plan the child-protection system can act on.
| Capability | Reset | Typical WA residential program |
|---|---|---|
| Children live with their mother throughout treatmentMost WA residential rehab admits the individual only. | ||
| Reunification evidence built into the care plan | ||
| Onsite therapeutic childcare during groups | ||
| Government / NGO placement funded | ||
| Clinical AOD + attachment support combined | ||
| Staged step-down to community housing |
Comparison reflects Reset's model versus common residential AOD service design in WA. Individual programs vary; Reset is designed to complement, not replace, existing services.
For funders & partners
A fundable model, benchmarked to WA rates
Reset is a not-for-profit built around recurring government and NGO placement funding. We're securing placement pathways with the Mental Health Commission and the Department of Communities before scaling beds — so every new place is backed by a funded referral, not speculative capacity.
150+
People on WA government-funded rehab waitlists at any time
12 → 40
Residential family beds, Year 1 growing to Year 3
$7K
Blended monthly placement fee per bed (benchmarked to WA rates)
1
Shared care plan per family — recovery and reunification aligned
The path to sustainability
- 1
Lock in placement contracts
Secure recurring MHC / DCP placement funding and referral agreements before adding beds — funding leads capacity.
- 2
Open with 12 family beds
Launch a single home at a blended ~$7K/bed monthly fee combining placement funding and a modest client contribution.
- 3
Prove outcomes
Evidence reunification and retention results that justify continued and expanded government investment.
- 4
Scale to 40 beds by Year 3
Grow deliberately across additional homes as contracted demand and documented outcomes support it.
Voices
Why this matters, in their words
Illustrative, composite quotes shown while Reset is in its establishment phase.
“I'd been told I had to go to rehab OR keep my kids. Reset was the first place that said 'bring them'. That's the only reason I walked through the door — and stayed.”
Marlee T.
Resident mother (composite story)
“Keeping the mother–child dyad intact during treatment is exactly the gap in our metro system. A reunification-focused residence with real clinical governance is something we can refer into with confidence.”
Dr. Priya N.
AOD clinician, community health
“Documented, supervised stability in a family setting is what our reunification decisions hinge on. A placement designed around that evidence changes what's possible for these families.”
James O.
Child protection caseworker (referrer)
Questions
Frequently asked
Reset is in its establishment phase. We are finalising our residential home and securing recurring placement funding with the Mental Health Commission and the Department of Communities before opening our first twelve family beds. Join the waitlist to be notified as places open.
Mothers in Western Australia who are in or entering recovery from alcohol and other drug dependence and who want to keep their children with them during treatment — including mothers working toward reunification with children currently in care.
Yes. Each family has a private room, and children live alongside their mother throughout her stay. Qualified educators provide therapeutic childcare during therapy sessions and appointments so no mother has to choose between her treatment and her children.
Places are funded through a blended monthly fee per bed that combines government and NGO placement funding with a modest client contribution, benchmarked to Western Australian residential recovery care rates. Most families pay little or nothing directly.
Western Australia has strong residential services, but very few keep mothers and children together, and fewer still are built specifically around child-protection reunification. Reset's entire model — from onsite childcare to court-ready progress reporting — is designed for that single, underserved pathway.
Caseworkers, clinicians, courts and family members can refer a mother directly. We assess clinical suitability, safety and reunification goals together with the referring team before offering a place.
Be first to know when places open.
Whether you're a mother seeking a place, a family member, a caseworker with a family in mind, or a funder who wants to help build this — add your details and we'll be in touch.
Every place we open starts with one family choosing to stay together through recovery.