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Community Visitors Scheme, which provides volunteer friends to visit people who have no family to visit and are resident in Nursing Homes.

DIAS (Disability, Information and Advocacy Service) is a family support and advocacy service for people with disabilities and for their families.

Experienced Hands. This project was an Initiative of the NSW State Gov. for the International Year of the Older person. It aims to provide a link between older and younger people whereby they can help each other and their communities on a voluntary basis. There is a special focus on older people handing on their skills and becoming mentors to younger people.

Friendly Visitors Scheme, Provides volunteers to visit people in their own homes, people who are lonely, frail aged, housebound or socially isolated in some way.

Home Maintenance and Modification, a HACC program which employs builders to provide ramps and rails and other modifications to the homes of frail aged and disabled people wishing to remain in their own homes.

Side by Side. A program to link people with a disability to volunteering options with the support of a volunteer mentor.

 
 
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