Providing Local Answers to local problems
Minister for Children and Youth Affairs, Larry Anthony, today announced a commitment of around $17 million funding to 93 grassroots projects that will support local answers to local problems.
Mr Anthony said funding has been made available through the refocussed $365 million Stronger Families and Communities Strategy’s Local Answers initiative. Local Answers ($60 million over four years) gives communities the power to develop their own solutions and help them help themselves by supporting locally developed and implemented projects.
This approach is recognition that government alone cannot solve community issues and that communities themselves know what their local issues are, how these issues can best be addressed and who they need to work with to implement solutions.
Funding under Local Answers will support projects that:
- build effective parenting and relationship skills;
- build opportunities and skills for economic self-reliance in families and communities;
- build partnerships between local services strengthening support to families and communities, so they deliver better services and meet unmet needs;
- assist young parents in particular to further their education or access to training and other services where they are seeking to make the transition to employment; and
- assist members of the community to get involved in community life through local volunteering, mentoring of young people, and training to build community leadership and initiative.
“The funding includes $7.3 million in continuing support for 41 projects which were previously funded under the first four years of the Stronger Families and Communities Strategy. Around $10 million will go to new projects around Australia.
“In funding Local Answers, the Australian Government is continuing to listen to communities and to trust their judgment in proposing responses to local issues. We are firmly committed to working in partnership with communities in a flexible way, so that our children, families and communities will be supported in ways they need,” Mr Anthony said.
More information about the projects and the Stronger Families and Communities Strategy is available on the FaCS website at www.facs.gov.au
| Organisation | Project Title | $ Approved |
|---|---|---|
| Australian Capital Territory | ||
| Alcohol and Drug Foundation ACT | Early Intervention for Children at Risk and Effective Parenting for Families with Complex Needs | $413,520 |
| Southside Community Services* | Southside Good Beginnings Volunteer Home Visiting Program | $52,297 |
| YWCA of Canberra | Young Parents STEPS Program | $150,000 |
| New South Wales | ||
| Anglicare Canberra and Goulburn / Anglicare Youth and Family Services* | Ashmont Community Resource Centre | $125,545 |
| Bega Valley Shire Council | Social Planning Conference | $5,600 |
| Bucketts Way Neighbourhood Group | Aspirations for Families | $31,420 |
| Dads in Distress* | Dads in Distress | $300,000 |
| St Philips Christian Education Foundation* | Dale Young Mothers Program | $282,200 |
| Interrelate* | Indigerelate (Bulgalma Bihyn) | $200,000 |
| Gunnedah Shire Council | Gunnedah Mentoring Program | $143,803 |
| Holroyd Parramatta Migrant Services | Interactive CaLD Parents Support Services | $175,332 |
| Home Instruction for Parents of Preschool Youngsters* | HIPPY, La Perouse | $182,411 |
| Hope for the Children Foundation, Armidale | Uralla and Walcha Home Visiting Project | $120,000 |
| Island Quarry Association* | Sustainable Community Employment Network Enterprise | $198,000 |
| Kurrajong Early Intervention Service* | Strengthening and Supporting Families in the Ashmont Community | $64,149 |
| Lower Mountains Family Support Service | It Takes a Village | $240,325 |
| Macarthur Diversity Services | Macarthur Multicultural Family Resource Worker | $169,600 |
| Mayumarri Trust Fund* | Mayumarri’s Proven Solutions for Disadavantaged Children and Families | $80,000 |
| Noah’s Ark Centre of Shoalhaven* | Wreck Bay Aboriginal Community Early Childhood Intervention Project | $94,278 |
| Panthers on the Prowl | Parent Support Program | $375,290 |
| SDN Children’s Services* | Parent Resource Program | $385,000 |
| Shoalcare | Aunties and Uncles Southern Shoalhaven | $79,100 |
| Spastic Centre of NSW* | Parent Link | $180,000 |
| The Aunty Program* | The Aunty Program Beyond Byron | $137,399 |
| The Benevolent Society* | Eastern Sydney Community Leadership Program | $141,936 |
| The Family Centre Community Projects* | REAL Skills Working with School Communities | $240,640 |
| The Uncle Project* | Mentoring Activities | $150,000 |
| Uniting Church in Australia Property Trust (NSW) | Community Volunteer Parent Support Network | $150,000 |
| Wyong Shire Council | ABCD through Strengthening Communities | $138,000 |
| Youth Insearch Foundation (Aust.) | Regional Youth Support (in 8 regions across NSW, QLD, TAS) | $982,200 |
| Northern Territory | ||
| Multicultural Council of the Northern Territory | Multicultural Solutions | $257,680 |
| Anglicare NT | Top End Ante and Post Natal Education and Support for Young Parents | $220,000 |
| Tangentyere Council* | Yarrenyty-Arltere Learning Centre | $155,830 |
| Queensland | ||
| Bundaberg Skills Centre | Positive Start | $305,876 |
| Community Connect Fraser Coast * | Fraser Coast Family Connections | $182,631 |
| Dalby Town Council | Myall Youth and Community Network Centre Coordinator | $101,695 |
| Gailes Residents Committee | Continuous Living and Learning | $207,957 |
| Kath Dickson Family Centre Association | Parenting Support Program | $385,627 |
| Lions Emergency Accommodation Centre * | Better Start Program | $139,076 |
| Lutheran Community Care* | Families Now | $151,149 |
| Magani Malu Kes Townsville | Community Development Program | $33,000 |
| Mater Misericordiae Health Services Brisbane | Interagency Infant Mental Health Network – Local Answers for Integrated Care | $421,066 |
| Namtec | ACCEPTANCE – Mentoring Young Offenders | $158,159 |
| Queensland Youth Services | PPOSSIBLEE Project | $394,121 |
| Redcliffe Domestic Violence Project Team* | Expect Respect in Redcliffe | $312,941 |
| Redland Community Centre* | Toddler Tactics – Changing Lives | $456,238 |
| Roseberry Youth Services | Youth and Family Support Centre Parenting Project | $5,730 |
| Royal Children’s Hospital Foundation* | Families 4 Life 2 | $229,848 |
| Save the Children Fund (QLD Division)* | Future Parents Program | $326,430 |
| Mercy Family Services | Grandies | $128,985 |
| University of Queensland | Growing Stronger: Supporting and Connecting Parents of Children with Autism | $192,826 |
| Tasmania | ||
| Hobart City Mission | Mobile Mission Project | $133,314 |
| Salvation Army (TAS) | Parenting Partners | $291,329 |
| South Australia | ||
| Adelaide Central Community Health Service* | Talking Realities – Youth Parenting Program | $271,959 |
| Anglicare SA | Food ‘n’ Fun | $410,972 |
| Christie Downs Community House* | Participate and Learn Skills (PALS) | $239,807 |
| City of Port Adelaide – Enfield* | Le Fevre Children’s Program | $65,800 |
| Cottage Kitchen | Walking for Life | $18,789 |
| Hackham West Community Centre* | Hackham West Family Worker Project | $128,498 |
| Hawker Childhood Services Centre | Hawker Community Creche | $14,032 |
| Lady Gowrie Child Centre* | Through the Looking Glass | $142,900 |
| Migrant Resource Centre of SA* | Supporting Young Refugees | $60,000 |
| Milang Progress Association* | Village Life – Living Village | $75,950 |
| Relationships Australia SA | Point Pearce – Increasing Generational Capacity | $60,000 |
| SA Children’s Writers Festival | Books – Be In It | $30,000 |
| Smith Family SA | EASE Tutoring Program | $92,456 |
| Spark Resource Centre * | Parenting Games and Having Fun | $41,740 |
| Victoria | ||
| Anglicare Victoria | Connected Families Help Build Strong Communities | $381,000 |
| Bounce Back Foundation* | Strengthening Wathaurong Communities – Community Mentoring | $105,000 |
| Central Gippsland Health Service* | Wellington Young Parents Program | $143,395 |
| Good Beginnings Latrobe* | Home Visiting And Parenting Program | $150,000 |
| Good Shepherd Youth And Family Service | Step Out | $377,100 |
| Lake Bolac Development Association | Volunteer Empowerment Project | $6,368 |
| Lakes Entrance Community Health | Outside Looking In-A Rural Perspective | $3,700 |
| Little River Kindergarten | Little River Parent Library | $2,000 |
| Maribyrnong City Council | JAM for Kids | $417,560 |
| Mission Australia | Mentoring to Mobilise | $162,812 |
| Orana Family Services* | The Youngest Parents Project | $139,646 |
| Peninsula Health – Frankston Community Health Service | Frankston Community Kitchens Pilot | $296,040 |
| Reach Out For Kids Foundation (ROK) | Whitehorse Alliance Parent Resource Project | $109,020 |
| Southern Family Life Services* | Creating Capable Communities | $377,810 |
| Springvale Community Aid and Advice Bureau | Volunteering Gateways to Inclusion for Diverse and Disadvantaged Communities | $129,517 |
| The Torch Project | Re-Igniting Community Doveton | $80,000 |
| United Way Ballarat Community Fund | Community Needs Analysis 2005-07 | $6,000 |
| Westernport Speaking Out | Working Together – Achieving Together | $60,000 |
| Western Australia | ||
| Australian Red Cross Society (WA Division) | Food Cent$ | $177,740 |
| Dar Al Shifah (Islamic)* | Towards Leadership | $167,720 |
| Jalaris Aboriginal Corporation* | Jalaris Family Support Outreach Service | $156,306 |
| Peel Community Development Group | Peel Families and Schools Together | $297,953 |
| Peel Youth Program* | Eyes Wide Open – Honouring Teenage Parents and their Children | $105,052 |
| Pilbara TAFE – Consultancy North | Strengthening the Pilbara with Strong Indigenous Leaders | $46,094 |
| Rural Children’s Support Network (Midwest, Gascoyne and Murchison)* | Midwest Family Support Service | $132,863 |
| Western Institute of Self-Help (WISH) | Building a Greater South West Regional Self-Help Network | $11,800 |