Annual Report 2012 - Lifeline Darling Downs
Annual Report 2012 - Lifeline Darling Downs
Annual Report 2012 - Lifeline Darling Downs
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<strong>Lifeline</strong> <strong>Darling</strong> <strong>Downs</strong> & South West Queensland Ltd <strong>2012</strong> <strong>Annual</strong> <strong>Report</strong><br />
Community Education is being developed in conjunction with the Toowoomba Regional<br />
Councils Community Development Team and discussions with <strong>Lifeline</strong> <strong>Darling</strong> Down<br />
program staff.<br />
Networking and contacts in Community Development and Communities in Emergency<br />
Management throughout Australia have been established.<br />
Strong networks have been established with Toowoomba Regional Council.<br />
Challenges<br />
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been seen by local Councils and local organizations as a hard recommendation from<br />
past natural disaster incidents to complete.<br />
www.mycommunitydirectory.com.au as a communication tool between Community<br />
Agencies and the local council is still being discussed.<br />
High risk that the Local council will not adopt the www.mycommunitydirectory.com.au<br />
approach due to having its own Community Information Directory. This would have a<br />
knock on effect to the other Councils within the <strong>Darling</strong> <strong>Downs</strong> region.<br />
If Toowoomba Regional Council use the existing Community Information Database<br />
problems will arise with how to keep existing Contact lists of the Community<br />
Organizations current. The Councils ICT department will have to develop further inhouse<br />
txt/sms facilities, email groups by area linked within council network. If C<br />
ICT infrastructure is affected by an incident, we would need to be covered by a Disaster<br />
Recovery/Business Continuity plan. All of these issues would need to be sorted before<br />
we look at replicating the project throughout the <strong>Darling</strong> <strong>Downs</strong>.<br />
Future directions<br />
Ongoing Volunteers Pathway on website and Information Leaflets.<br />
Mid-August <strong>2012</strong> Community Education Packages Developed for training and<br />
information posted to the website (Ongoing Updates).<br />
October/November <strong>2012</strong> Training to be Rolled out into the Toowoomba Regional<br />
Council Resilient Community Volunteers.<br />
October/November <strong>2012</strong> Assist TRC Community engagement and Preparedness<br />
Sessions.<br />
April 2013 progression to replicate program through the <strong>Darling</strong> <strong>Downs</strong> & South West<br />
Queensland.<br />
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