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Outcomes The main outcomes of the program sessions are to have the participants increase their confidence and self esteem through their belief in their own skills and abilities plus to see them selves as Aboriginal people with a cultural heritage that they can be really proud of and claim as their birthright. Outreach It is important that this program is shared with other Aboriginal communities throughout Victoria. As a first step the Day Care program is now involved with an outreach program in the Western Suburbs. It is proposed to extent the program in the future to the Healesville and Dandenong Aboriginal communities respectively. Hopefully, other Aboriginal communities through Victoria will develop and conduct their Day Care Programs with a cultural component for their own individual and community culture awareness program. An interesting extension of an Aged Care Program is to have the Elders write/tell their stories so that future generations will have some real account of Aboriginal history as told by an Aboriginal person/s. Contact details Reg Blow, Aboriginal Community Elders Services, 5 Parkview Avenue, Brunswick 3057 –Ph: (03) 9383 4244 – Fax: (03) 9384 1532 – E-mail: regblow@yahoo.com.au Carol Wilson, Manager Southern Peninsula Community Care Ila Howard, Coordinator, Banksia Centre, Brotherhood of St Laurence Trust/Cooperation/Great Outcomes The coordinators/managers of eight PAG services on the Mornington Peninsula have been meeting for several years on a bi-monthly basis. Some of the programs are small, others are large and complex. The partners are Banksia Centre – Brotherhood of St Laurence Andrew Kerr Day Centre – Mornington Memory Lane – Somerville – MPSC Southern Peninsula Community Care – Rosebud Rosewood House – Peninsula Health Network Mt Eliza Community Contact Mornington Greek Group – Migrant Resource Centre Baxter Day Care – Baxter Village. The meetings are an opportunity to share successes, provide support to coordinators and discuss difficulties. The coordinators have all derived great benefit from this coalition and the programs provide a more flexible, innovative and responsive service. TRUST is the foundation of our network, we have learned that we can share our concerns and our discussions do not go any further. As coordinators we have all had 60
difficulties concerning either staff, volunteers, committees of management, clients or carers. Having a network of colleagues who may have encountered similar concerns has been beneficial and reassuring. LOBBYING is another role that has come from this group. As individual services we felt the PAGS had a minor presence at District Care Planning Meetings. We now send a representative to represent all PAGS and our concerns and issues are acknowledged as being relevant and worthy of discussion. INCREASED FUNDING has been a tangible benefit to this group. We demonstrated that we were working co-operatively and could be partners in a Flexible Service Response Grant. We do not see ourselves as competitors in the funding rounds but partners in providing the best outcomes for our clients. Contact details Carol Wilson, Southern Peninsula Community Care Inc., –Ph: (03) 5986 5255 –E-mail: spcc@cdi.com.au or Ila Howard, Banksia Centre, Brotherhood of St Laurence, –Ph: (03) 9783 5907 and 9782 9322 – E-mail: ihoward@bsl.org.au 61
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