| 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. |