An interagency is a loose network of workers in community organisations and may include representatives from government agencies. Interagencies are a meeting place to exchange information, and a forum for collective action.

 

Interagencies, Networks and Forums in the Illawarra lists details of local community-based networks. If the details of your interagency are not up to date, please contact the Illawarra Forum Inc.

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How to make interagencies work

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Why do we have interagencies? On the subject of interagencies, community workers have a vast range of responses ranging from dissatisfaction or 'burn-out' to optimistic expectations of collective lobbying. This paper puts together opinion collected in an email survey in May 2005.

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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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Making Great Interagencies, Networks and Forums. This publication is the result of a Western Sydney Community Forum research project which invited community workers to describe their experience of how to make a great interagency. If you are an interagency or network convenor, this "how to" book will help you.

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