Meeting 19th September
Guest Speaker Mark Glasson
AnglicareWA
photo by Doug Worthington
Community perception survey is conducted by AnglicareWA every 2 years and the result that comes back is that people appreciate their Aged Care, but don't do Aged Care. So there is a perception issue to address here.
Foyer Oxford is iconic as it is the largest one site youth accomodation site in Australia.
AnglicareWA is loated within 55 communities and offers 88 services. Anglicare WA prides itself that it will go to places where others won’t go. Hence defining itself as most willing. For example there is 1 AnglicareWA worker in Balgo in the Tanami Desert, which is one of the most remote Aboriginal communities in the South-East Kimberley. That worker is there addressing youth suicide.
40% of services are in rural areas. There are 4 workers in Halls Creek which like Roebourne has a poor perception on harm that is taking place within those communities.
The historic approach to address social welfare has been based on deficit which in time becomes economically rationed to only the worst cases. Instead the approach should be based on strengths. For trouble doesn't travel alone, and people have resilience and they know how to budget but they do not enough money, so help them to lift their income.
The core issue is the lack of affordable housing leading people into entrenched disadvantage. Being poor means that 80% go without a meal a week, and there is also often entrenched violence in the background.
What is required is an integration of response, not deficit focus, but to integrate services that build relationship strength and confidence.
There is a homelessness problem in WA with 9,000 of which 3,000 are children and youth and this has not changed in 20 years. Youth receive less income than than Newstart at $40 a day. Entry job success is only at 16% meaning that many are never successful. The Employment system is build on a model of volume of applications processed by the agencies. Yet we know that most peopel gain jobs through relationships. Youth at disadvantge don’t have those relationships.
So AnglicareWA is big but with strong misunderstood of what it does in the community. So the staff Rewrote our values who wanted to express values that inspire them in their work.
Homestretch WA is a Pilot Program in Fremantle that is addressing the issue that youth in state care lose support at the age of 18 and are on their own. 40% of young people on the street are from the state care system. They are at risk of being younger parents, in prison, in hospital, with mental illhealth. This costs the state money. Hence the Pilot Program to keep state service support to these young people to the age of 21.
Many people are not aware that current legislation bedfore the state parliament for the sale of TAB allows for the expansion of electronic machines beyond the Crown Casion into 300 other venues.
Start prevention of homelessness in high schoolby addressing domestic violence and mental health. The answer is in the networks that the youth and in.
Please give your Feedback to District via Warwick
What the ‘together’ in Rotary’s vision statement means
KDT (Kimberley Dental Team) Tenth Anniversary Friday 18 Oct Crawley Yacht Club 6 to 8 pm
Kimberley Dental Team Ltd was founded by Jan and John Owen in May 2009 as a result of their experience in Halls Creek.
In May 2009, Dr. John Owen accompanied his wife Jan, dental nurse and dental health educator in her earlier career, to Halls Creek. The visit occurred because of Jan’s participation in the choir Madjitil Moorna: Singers of Aboriginal songs, who had been invited by an Aboriginal school teacher, Doreen Green, to sing with the children of the Halls Creek District High School. The school welcomed their dental expertise as they had been without a dental therapy service for a considerable time and many children suffered dental disease and pain. This afforded the opportunity for Jan and John to provide dental screening and dental health education (DHE) to the local school children during the week of the choir visit.
With their increasing awareness of the inequality of dental health care compared to that of metropolitan Perth, Jan and John committed to the development of a volunteer team of dental health personnel, the Kimberley Dental Team (KDT), to enhance current services and improve dental health literacy. The model used was initially inspired by the Filling the Gap volunteer program operating in North Queensland.