Life Mentoring with Care..
Our Focus
Our focus is on people of Aboriginal descent that are associated with the justice system, with our main goal of preparing people to be life ready and building the human spirit. Also understanding that many Aboriginal people who are in jail because they have either a diagnosed or undiagnosed disability and/or trauma.
We connect with the very complex structure of the local Aboriginal mobs and families of our area within the Bundjalung Nation which gives us an opportunity to discover what can really make a difference to our most vulnerable members of our local Aboriginal population
We have had meetings with our local community members to see what they required from our new service, as well as utilising the knowledge from years of working in Community Services, and came up with:
- Providing quality case management services (mentoring).
- Addressing social disadvantage to relieve people of poverty and stress by encouraging people to start their own personal social enterprise.
- Promoting social inclusion.
- Creating local small advisory groups.
- Responding to community needs by identifying gaps in services.
- Creating innovative programs to meet the needs of the community.
- Support to meet access to the NDIS.
- Supported access to Support Coordination of the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) services (if applicable).
- Workshops to assist people with skill and capacity building.
- Working collaboratively with local services.
- Social Enterprises to encourage people to become involved.