Community Care

 

Our Future in Community Care

This report makes public policy recommendations to governments as well as identifing a range of things community care organisations anywhere can themselves consider, to improve their effectiveness. Workforce development and the whole process of meeting standards and performance indicators are obligations of tiny as well as large organisations. We have set out those things we wish to do in our region in the next three years, to enhance the whole business of working in community care and making this a good and effective industry in which people can be proud to work. This is a partnership project involving the Centre for Community Sector Development (an Illawarra Forum / Illawarra TAFE partnership) and practitioners from the Community Care Industry in the Illawarra and Shoalhaven region.

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Illawarra Community Care Forum

The Illawarra Community Care Forum is an interagency comprised of service providers in the Home and Community Care (HACC), Aged Care and Disabilities Services Sector from Wollongong, Shellharbour, Kiama, and Shoalhaven Municipal Areas. The Forum meets bi-monthly at the Ribbonwood Centre, Dapto, and is open to service providers, funding bodies and consumers in the fi eld of aged and disability services. This publication describes its role, aims and objectives, the Forum Charter and the member's handbook of policies and procedures.

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Consultation Report: a community perspective of aged and disability services in the Illawarra and Shoalhaven

This report is a summary of the community consultations with aged care and disability services in the Illawarra and Shoalhaven in 2007 and 2008. It also has the results of a research project: Mapping people's pathways in using services from the NSW Department of Ageing, Disability and Home Care (DADHC) and the Home and Community Care Program (HACC) in the Illawarra and Shoalhaven.

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National Mental Health and Disability Consultation 2008

The Australian Social Inclusion Board met with several peak national bodies in the mental health and disability sector to discuss issues in the Board’s key priority areas: jobless families with children, children at greatest risk of disadvantage and taking a locational approach. This paper also includes summary findings from the Telling it like it is report: Community consultations with Aboriginal people with disability and their associates throughout NSW, 2004/05.

www.socialinclusion.gov.au/AusGov/Board/Documents/FindingsNov08.pdf

The consultation report Shut Out: The Experience of People with Disabilities and their Families in Australia (prepared by the National People with Disabilities and Carer Council) was informed by more than 750 submissions, and public consultations involving more than 2,500 people held nationally between October and December 2008.www.fahcsia.gov.au/sa/disability/progserv/govtint/Pages/nds.aspx