People 18-64 years who are not eligible for low-level support via the NDIS can apply for ‘SASH’ support packages through NSW Health’s ComPacks program. Safe And Supported at Home packages, called SASH for short, support people with functional impairments to live independently and safely at home. People with mental health issues, chronic or degenerative illness [...]
Social distancing requirements have not stopped our essential services which are proceeding as usual – with a little extra space. Distancing modifications make services such as shopping, linen and meals deliveries ‘contactless’ – for the protection of both client and delivering volunteer or SCS staff. Speaking of modifications, our home modifications and maintenance (HMM) team [...]
Sydney Community Services has sadly and gratefully farewelled a highly respected and much-loved key staff member – our Nursing Service co-manager, Michele Neil. In six years with SCS, Michele built up a nursing team and community nursing service for the north shore which won accolades not only from clients but from GPs and managers in [...]
Jill McAtamney is a volunteer for young and old. She now visits seniors as part of Sydney Community Services’ In-home Visiting Program. When she first came to Sydney from Queensland in 2000 as a teacher, she had thoughts of retiring or at least working less and doing something new she’d always wanted to do – [...]
Some don’t see it but Gaynor Starkey knows the link between the Airline Cabin Manager she once was and the Disability Program Coordinator she is now. “People who perceive airlines to be glamorous think that’s a long way from working with people with a disability. But whether you’re looking after people in a plane or [...]
Mayor of Hunters Hill, Mark Bennett, at Harris Farm which donated fresh produce Many thanks to all the generous local people, businesses and to Hunters Hill and Lane Cove Councils who helped us meet our neighbours’ needs in the past month. Huge thanks go to: - Numerous generous local people [...]
Sydney Community Services’ board and staff are saddened by the death of former Hunters Hill-Ryde Community Services President, Gary Traill. Many of us were privileged to know Gary and all of us have been privileged to be involved in an organisation which benefited from his legal and mediation skills, his vision for the growth of [...]
Elizabeth Carroll comes from a community-minded family, and a fascinating, community-oriented career. Now retired, Elizabeth prioritises her immediate neighbours in the Vasey Housing village where she lives at Hunters Hill, and also the wider Ryde-Hunters Hill community where she delivers meals as a Sydney Community Services volunteer. Elizabeth worked for the Reservations Team at Air [...]
Nursing Team Manager, Michelle Neill Our nurses and personal care workers were run off their feet with a flurry of new patients discharged from hospital at the onset of the restrictions around corona virus. Then things quietened down. Our Nursing Team Manager, Michele Neil, believes numbers of doctors’ appointments and pathology tests have gone [...]
Everyone living under the new regulations around Covid-19 is feeling some new pressure, and for people who were already suffering stress, it’s been compounded. Last year 88 children and their mothers escaping domestic violence slept in beds at Delvena on Sydney’s lower north shore and its sister refuge, Bringa, on the northern beaches. This year [...]
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