Anglicare’s Community Outreach Program Helping SEQ

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Anglicare Southern Queensland has embarked on a large community outreach campaign to build awareness of its extensive range of services throughout Queensland communities.

The campaign, which was rolled out last month across television, radio, newspapers, cinemas, social media and Anglicare’s new website, will continue through to mid-2017 to ensure individuals, families and communities across Queensland know how to access the support they may need to overcome challenges they are facing in living a more fulfilling life.

According to Anglicare Executive Director, Mrs Karen Crouch, the marketing campaign has been designed to build on Anglicare’s strong reputation for providing quality aged care and nursing.

“While Anglicare is a name that has become synonymous with delivering aged care and nursing services throughout Southern Queensland, tens of thousands of Queenslanders are benefiting daily from Anglicare’s full range of services including Disability, Mental Health and Family Wellbeing, Foster Care, Homelessness and Help at Home services,” Karen said.

“Anglicare provides ‘all of life’ support to address a range of issues affecting some of the most vulnerable members in our community, from our youngest to our oldest Queenslanders.

“This support is aimed at achieving our vision – to deliver a more loving, just and inclusive society consistent with the teachings of Christ – by supporting people in need and helping them live their lives in fullness and in hope.

“As a commission of the Anglican Church of Southern Queensland, we are working towards the promotion of wellness, social inclusion and social justice for all,” she said.

Last year, Anglicare SQ placed 1,700 at risk children and young people in homes through its Foster Care Programs and provided intervention and counselling services and specialist programs addressing domestic violence prevention, child and family support and drug and alcohol issues to 14,000 clients.

The opening of a new shelter in Toowong in Brisbane’s inner west further built up Anglicare’s capacity to deliver homelessness support services, with 600 homeless clients receiving care across Brisbane in the past year.

The Anglicare fleet is also well known across Southern Queensland with more than 9.4 million kilometres travelled by Anglicare staff working in more than 30 locations across Queensland and delivering nearly 100,000 hours of service last year to support elderly clients or clients living with a disability, either in their home or by helping them participate in community activities.

This number will increase significantly across Queensland throughout the next three years with the rollout of the National Disability Insurance Scheme, which will give Queenslanders with a disability control of what support they want to receive for the life they wish to lead.

This model of client-directed care has also been extended into aged care through the Federal Government’s My Aged Care program, which allows Australians over 65 years of age to access packages to provide assistance in the home and within the community to continue doing the things they enjoy.

Apart from reaching out to those directly in need, Anglicare’s community outreach campaign is also seeking to assist those who may be ‘connected’ to somebody needing support – in the workplace, within our neighbourhood, or within our own families.

For this reason Anglicare has one single number to access all of its services with a customer service team fully trained to be able to direct calls, or emails that come through the website, to those who are able to provide the necessary support.

If you know of somebody within the community or a loved one in need; would like to find out more about Anglicare’s Disability Support, Mental Health and Wellbeing, Family Wellbeing, Homelessness Support, Help at Home, Dementia and Respite Support services; Residential Aged Care and Retirement Communities; or if you are interested in fostering a child; call Anglicare on 1300 610 610.

With community service initiatives in the Anglican Church dating back to 1870, Anglicare Southern Queensland is one of Queensland’s most experienced providers.

Anglicare is a not-for-profit organisation providing care and support services to meet the needs of Queensland communities from Townsville to Coolangatta and West as far as Longreach and Roma, as part of the mission of the Anglican Church of Southern Queensland.