Message from the CEO
Welcome to the first edition of Supporter for 2024.
Their story also demonstrates that when individuals and organisations across a community work together, positive outcomes can be achieved. Housing availability and affordability is of course a key focus of AnglicareSA and our housing arm, Believe Housing Australia (BHA). BHA is a partner in the Studio Purpose project that recently launched another four more units in Murray Bridge for young people experiencing disadvantage in the region. The BHA team also recently celebrated yet another family they have assisted to move from long-term rental into home ownership. You can read about Freweyni and Gizachew’s journey to home ownership on page 5. Finally, I would like to thank everyone who was involved in our Christmas Appeal and Hamper and Toy Drive. Thanks to the generosity of our community, we raised $63,000 for our emergency assistance services and delivered 1,800 hampers and 2,000 children’s gifts to families across South Australia in time for Christmas. Together we change lives.
The team at Daphne Street also regularly runs a Food School, where they work with children with feeding difficulties to make mealtime a fun and safe experience. This program delivers terrific, life-changing results for children and their families. Supporting families to thrive is a big part of what we do at AnglicareSA, across so many of our programs and services. Our foster and kinship carers provide a stable home for children and young people who can’t live with their families, giving them the opportunity to thrive. Being a carer can be very rewarding, but can also be tiring, especially when carers don’t take the time to look after themselves. Our foster care team recently stepped in to ensure a bit of self-care for our valued carers by hosting a Rest and Relaxation Day. The team will continue to look for ways to support and care for our carers. On page 8 you’ll find the story of a mother, her four children, and the family pet dog, who found themselves living in a caravan park after fleeing a domestic violence situation. It highlights the lack of available accommodation for people in crisis, which is exasperated by the ongoing housing crisis in Australia.
From axe-throwing outings and knitting clubs, to serving up nourishing and flavourful food to people living in our residential aged care sites, our teams across AnglicareSA have been hard at work improving the lives of those in our care, and those who come to us for assistance. Our Daphne Street Autism-Specific
Early Learning and Care Centre provides specialist education, childcare, and state-of-the-art
therapeutic services for children with autism. We’re currently renovating the site to expand our services and make for a better learning environment. There is terrific work being done at Daphne Street to support children and their families, and its services are in high demand. In response to the years-long wait times many families face to get an autism spectrum disorder diagnosis for their child, the team at Daphne Street developed a diagnostic service that has significantly reduced the time it takes to carry out an assessment, resulting in shorter wait times and children being able to access vital early interventions sooner.
Grant Reubenicht Chief Executive Officer
Cover: Liliana and Ella from AnglicareSA’s new Autism Diagnostic Service, which is meeting a growing need in the early identification of autism spectrum disorder
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