Like most of us, she’s not visiting anyone at the moment, but Beth Spence usually visits a lady in New Horizons nursing home at Ryde each week. She’s a volunteer for our Community Visitors Scheme, which matches volunteer visitors with people who otherwise risk being socially isolated. Back in 1937, during one of Australia’s worst [...]
Australians need to be extra careful of scammers who are adapting their cons to the topic of the moment – corona virus. “Unfortunately, scammers are using the uncertainty around coronavirus to take advantage of people,” says Delia Rickard, Deputy Chair of the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission. The ACCC ’s Scamwatch received nearly 100 reports [...]
What a generous community! In March we called out for donations to help us get essentials to isolated people who have no family, neighbours or other close contacts to support them and the giving nature of our community shone brightly! Within an hour, SCS’ Lane Cove Office had received four donations of food and toilet rolls [...]
With a little help from our friends, aka fantastic volunteers, donors and staff – plus new safety protocols – we’ve been able to keep running our essential services of in-home nursing, meals and general support for vulnerable people, seniors and people with disabilities. This week we’re even offering virtual activities for a couple of groups [...]
The Government is under pressure from all quarters to increase funding to pay for better staffing and staff training to improve lives in the aged care sector. The Royal Commission into Aged Care Quality and Safety hearing in Adelaide last week concentrated on the industry's workforce. Senior Counsel Assisting, Peter Rozen QC, made recommendations [...]
Last year, the Federal Minister for Families and Social Services, Anne Ruston, announced a new system to support unpaid carers and it’s coming online now. The government has organised a national network of 16 Carer Gateway service providers to support carers, as outlined by last year's media release https://ministers.dss.gov.au/media-releases/5096 The local partners for northern Sydney [...]
Already in Australia for two years as an international university student, it was not until Tina Liu became a home care worker that she learned about Australia, its culture and people. As a student and young mum, she was either at uni, in the library or at home with her young daughter so there was [...]
As with many of our staff, Stella Small started with Sydney Community Services as a volunteer, then became an employee … and stayed for years. She first volunteered as a support worker at the Seniors’ Hub, in Hunters Hill, and then segued to helping with admin and data entry in the office. SCS Community Connections [...]
An Advanced Care Plan or Directive can be created at any age. Like your will, it's best done early because you never know what tomorrow will bring. Program Director of Advance Care Planning Australia, Linda Nolte, encourages people to see it as a routine part of personal and health care – for us all. She [...]
Hovig Der Tateossian has never been a car aficionado but he’s on his way to becoming one. As the new part-time Transport Coordinator at Sydney Community Services, he’s fast becoming a mini-bus specialist, managing our fleet of 12- and 20-seat buses, ensuring they’re ready and available to carry consumers including culturally and linguistically diverse groups, [...]
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