COMMUNITY PROGRAMS
Our community program teams experienced another busy year in 2019-20 supporting 4260 people across our many and varied programs. Our amazing and hardworking frontline employees and managers demonstrated their ongoing commitment to providing support and vital services in our local communities. A renewed organisational culture within Momentum has benefited the people we work with by putting them firmly at the centre of our professional practice. It has been a year of expansion that has allowed us to respond to the needs of more people experiencing hardship and disadvantage. It has also been a year that has challenged us to keep going in the face of a serious pandemic. I am proud to say our teams responded to this challenge by working even harder and thinking of new ways to keep our programs and services operating. The hard work and dedication of our teams in the 2019-20 financial year has assisted thousands of children, young people, families, and individual women and men to achieve their goals in the areas of safety, housing, parenting, community inclusion, access to needed services and material goods, health, education, employment, and living skills. We secured ongoing funding for all of our existing programs and additional funding to assist us to deal with the increase in demand as a result of COVID-19.
We continued to work in partnership with Aboriginal controlled domestic and family violence and specialist homelessness organisations. The new funding we secured in the financial year allowed us to respond to the unacceptably high levels of street homelessness in the Tweed Region and implement our Staying Home Leaving Violence program in the Richmond Valley area. One of the highlights of the year was the grand opening of the revitalised Oak Centre in Casino. Funding from the North Coast Primary Health Network allowed us to begin a Healthy Communities program in partnership with Northern NSW Local Health District and Bulgarr Ngaru Medical Aboriginal Corporation. Another highlight was our determination to host the Staying Home Safe Forum, bringing together over 100 people working in the domestic and family violence sector across NSW. The forum was originally intended to be held at a venue in April 2020 with face to face interaction. Due to COVID-19 we had to quickly pivot the event to an online format that allowed us to share information and knowledge and develop new resources to upskill the workforce. The best outcome of the year, as always, was to see the positive impact that our support and programs have on the lives of so many people.
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