Led by lived experience.

Led by lived
experience.

Proven by evidence.

Led by lived experience.

Proven by evidence.

SAMMs is an evidence-based, neuro-informed model for profound and overlapping complex needs. It stabilises behaviour and builds capacity for sustainable participation across key systems.

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Who We Are

SAMMs is an innovative, award-winning clinical program developed by Creating New Pathways for people with the most entrenched and overlapping complex needs.

Delivered by embedded Complex Needs Clinicians, our model integrates trauma-informed therapy, neuroscience, and behavioural activation to create sustainable stability. At its core, SAMMs isn’t just a service. It’s a reform movement.

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Our Vision

We envision an Australia where individuals, regardless of trauma, diagnosis, or disadvantage, are met with compassion, clinically informed precision, and opportunity.

Our Vision

We envision an Australia where individuals, regardless of trauma, diagnosis, or disadvantage, are met with compassion, clinically informed precision, and opportunity.

Our Vision

We envision an Australia where individuals, regardless of trauma, diagnosis, or disadvantage, are met with compassion, clinically informed precision, and opportunity.

Our History

SAMMs was built to bridge the gap when traditional counselling, activation, and short-term interventions fail. What began as deep clinical integration evolved into a nationally implemented framework owned and governed by Creating New Pathways.

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Advocacy & Policy News

Advocacy
& Policy News

Explore the latest initiatives, reforms, and thought leadership advancing trauma-informed systems and cross-sector collaboration.

Explore initiatives and ideas driving trauma-informed systems and cross-sector collaboration.

4 mins

Media releaseEmployment services reformComplex needs

Australia’s first self-funded Complex Needs Clinical Service for Employment Services

Australia’s first self-funded Complex Needs Clinical Service for Employment Services opens in Sunshine on 9 December 2025, led by Creating New Pathways and the SAMMs team to deliver rapid, neuro-informed support for people with entrenched barriers across mental health, addiction, justice involvement and long-term unemployment.

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4 mins

Clinical innovationEmployment services reformComplex needs

The Partnerships That Built SAMMs

An early partnership with WISE Employment helped Creating New Pathways build and prove the SAMMs approach, showing how embedded clinical support can turn crisis into capacity.

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The Partnerships That Built SAMMs

Clinical innovation, Employment services reform, Complex needs

Clinical innovationEmployment services reformComplex needs

4 minutes

An early partnership with WISE Employment helped Creating New Pathways build and prove the SAMMs approach, showing how embedded clinical support can turn crisis into capacity.

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