Building Resilience in Community Services
Regional Community Partnership Program
In a formal working partnership with the Peel Community Development Group, WACOSS has undertaken a 12 month project to strengthen the regional capacity of the community services sector and to ensure that local issues identified by the sector can be heard.
The project is called, Building Resilience in Community Services (BRICS) – Peel, will establish an integrated communication framework to ensure that clear two way communication between the sector and the decision makers.
Other deliverables for the project comprise the development of a Peel Region Training Plan and the investigation of models of sustainability to increase the resilience of the sector in Peel.
The overall objectives of the BRICS – Peel project are to:
- Implement a framework to establish effective communication, coordination, support and development of community service providers in the Peel region.
- Strengthen networks and increase capacity of NFP’s regionally
- Provide a mechanism for social planning in the NFP sector in the Peel region that maximises partnerships and ensures the best possible delivery of sustainable community services in the region.
- Establish an integrated system for contributing Peel data and collated information into social policy discussions and decision making.
- Investigate and identify sustainable models to capacity build and support the Regional Peak body.
For more information
Please contact WACOSS Program Officer, Kathlin Mayer on (08) 9420 722