The Supporter is a quarterly magazine providing a collection of stories from across the AnglicareSA community.
Spring 2022
Thank you to foster and kinship carers Working towards reconciliation An Adelaide family’s housing crisis
Message from the CEO
AnglicareSA and Believe Housing Australia’s draft Reconciliation Action Plan (RAP) was recently endorsed by the Board following an extensive and immersive co-design process.
These new properties will help address the housing crisis gripping our state, but so much more needs to be done. We know that having stable housing leads to improvements across all aspects of life, from employment and education to health, wellbeing, and longevity. This was brought sharply into focus during Homelessness Week in August. The theme for this year was: To end homelessness, we need a plan . The housing crisis, increasing cost of living and the ongoing impacts of COVID-19 this winter saw more people than ever struggling to make ends meet. We have seen this first-hand with an increase in numbers of people turning to our emergency assistance services for help. We are therefore incredibly grateful for the generous support of those who have donated to our Winter Appeal. Together, we raised more than $104,000 for our emergency assistance program, allowing us to continue these vital services across our metropolitan and regional sites. Thank you. We are thankful too for the five-year extension of funding for our Home Interaction Program for Parents and Youngsters (HIPPY) recently announced by the State Government. We run this two-year home-based early learning and parenting program out of our Elizabeth and Christies Beach sites. Another life-changing program for children is our What’s the Buzz?
Our Innovate RAP 2022-24 is our third RAP in 10 years. It sets out a strategic roadmap that will drive authentic reconciliation through measured and sustainable benefits for First Nations people we employ, serve, and partner with. The RAP – along with a new Acknowledgement of Country that we are developing – has been approved by the First Nations Senior Leaders Group, First Nations Staff Network, and the Executive. Next steps involve endorsement of our Innovate RAP by Reconciliation Australia before final accreditation. Once accredited, the RAP will return to AnglicareSA for final approval. I look forward to sharing with you our Innovate RAP and new Acknowledgement of Country in due course. Work is also continuing in our endeavours to address the housing crisis. Our housing arm, Believe Housing Australia, recently commenced construction of 37 affordable homes in Mansfield Park. The homes are a mix of two and three-bedroom houses, including six specialist disability accommodation homes. It has also been terrific to see the progress of our Woodville West affordable housing site, which is on track to unveil 24 homes by mid-2023.
offering from our Outreach AnglicareSA Therapy Services (OATS). Run each school holidays, this program helps build children’s social and emotional intelligence. As we approach National Child Protection Week in September, I wanted to re-introduce our life-changing Post Care Pathways program. The program supports young care leavers with subsidised rent and services to keep them engaged in their communities, education, training and/or employment. You can read about one of the impressive young people who has been through the program on page 11 and find out more about this innovative, award-winning service model that is changing lives every day. Fully funded by AnglicareSA, Post Care Pathways is the beneficiary program of our Spring Appeal. If you can afford to, please consider making a donation. Last of all – but certainly not least – we would like to spotlight in this edition the tireless and passionate work of foster carers across our state just like mum Nyssa on our front page. Thank you Nyssa. And thanks to you all for your ongoing support and interest in the work of AnglicareSA. Together we change lives.
Grant Reubenicht Chief Executive Officer
Cover: AnglicareSA foster carer Nyssa
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Foster and Kinship Carer Week
Foster and Kinship Carer Week (11-17 September) is a time for us to acknowledge and celebrate all foster and kinship carers and their families for their contribution to our community.
For more information on foster care visit our website: www.anglicaresa.com.au/foster- care/starting-your-journey AnglicareSA is one of South Australia’s largest foster care providers. On any given night, we support up to 390 children in care across 350 foster care families.
We thank all foster and kinship carers for opening their hearts and homes to provide care and support to children and young people in need. Carers play such an important role in keeping children and young people safe and giving them opportunities to thrive and succeed in life. In South Australia, there are 1,660 children in foster care and 2,327 in
kinship care, according to the latest state government figures. This is a 25 per cent increase in foster care placements and 49 per cent increase in kinship care placements compared to June 2017. Foster care is provided by approved carers who are recruited, assessed, trained and supported by non- government service providers, like AnglicareSA.
Nyssa’s calling
Adelaide mother Nyssa was out walking one day in 2019 asking for a sign. “I had visited three different foster care services and I was weighing up whether I should become a carer. So, I asked for a sign. Give me a sign!” The answer nearly bowled her over. “At that moment, a car drove into the petrol station driveway I was crossing. Any closer and I would have lost a toe! It was an AnglicareSA car.” AnglicareSA was one of the services Nyssa had reached out to for more
SPECIAL CARER: Nyssa is one of AnglicareSA’s foster carers
The first – her grandmother. “Watching my grandmother be a mum to nine kids was awesome. For me, she showed me how to love. That’s why I wanted to become a mum – to give my love to someone else just like my grandmother did for me.” And the second – the positive change that love has had on Sarah. “I’ve watched my daughter – who was withdrawn and fearful – change into someone who shows love to everyone around her. I’ve seen the impact on her of having a loving, caring family – she has so many people in her life that love her – it definitely changes a child.”
“I love her smile and the fact that you can take her anywhere and she will have a best friend within five minutes,” she said. The child, aged under 10, came into state care at a young age and will be called ‘Sarah’ – not her real name – to protect her privacy. Nyssa was required to leave a full-time job she loved to care for Sarah around the clock. Though much improved, Sarah has behavioural and developmental delays and numerous allied health and specialist appointments, including physiotherapy and speech therapy. Nyssa said two things motivate her when times get tough.
information on fostering. She signed up soon after.
Nyssa chose to become a ‘specialist carer’. With training and guidance from our foster care support team, Nyssa is among a much-needed group of carers for children in state care with special needs. These needs may be physical, psychological, emotional and/ or behavioural and could be due to disability, neglect and/or trauma. “She is a social butterfly with no boundaries,” said Nyssa of her foster daughter of almost two years.
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Working towards reconciliation
AnglicareSA and Believe Housing Australia’s draft Reconciliation Action Plan has reached a significant milestone following Board endorsement in August.
Our Innovate Reconciliation Action Plan (RAP) 2022-24 has been developed following an extensive and immersive co-design process. It is our third RAP in 10 years and sets out a strategic roadmap that will drive authentic reconciliation through measured and sustainable benefits for First Nations people we employ, serve, and partner with. The RAP – along with a new Acknowledgement of Country that we are developing – has been approved by the First Nations Senior Leaders Group, First Nations Staff Network, and the Executive. Our Innovate RAP sets out a strategic roadmap that will drive authentic reconciliation through measured and sustainable benefits for First Nations people we employ, serve, and partner with.
Reconciliation must be a whole-of- organisation responsibility for us to become culturally safe and welcoming, free from racism and discrimination. We want to be a place that First Nations children, young people, individuals, families, and communities will choose and trust to work and engage with in their time of need. The next stages of our RAP journey will involve endorsement from Reconciliation Australia before final accreditation. This process will involve consultation with AnglicareSA and Believe Housing Australia employees. We hope to launch our RAP and the new Acknowledgement of Country this calendar year, but we are advised that the accreditation process can take time. In the meantime, we will continue work to develop our identified reconciliation initiatives.
Our Story Caring for others, embracing those in need and walking by their side is central to the artwork created by Adelaide Hills artist Karen Briggs as part of AnglicareSA’s journey to reconciliation. Karen’s vibrant design – called Our Story will be used throughout AnglicareSA and Believe Housing Australia’s new Reconciliation Action Plan (RAP). A proud Yorta Yorta woman, Karen says her inspiration for Our Story was drawn from her own experience, and that of her mother’s in working with social services agencies like AnglicareSA. “It was a big brief symbolically trying to bring in my culture to explain the energy and spirit of what reconciliation is across all levels of AnglicareSA,” Karen says. OUR STORY: Karen Briggs created the artwork Our Story for our Reconciliation Action Plan
Our Story artwork created by Karen Briggs for AnglicareSA’s Reconciliation Action Plan
“Then there are the swirls of wind flowing through the organisation that is symbolic of the spirit of reconciliation.”
“I also wanted to add in that feeling of caring and placing the customer and the community at the heart of everything, which is represented by the two dotted lines walking side by side around elements of the design.
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Refugee week Refugee Week is celebrated every year in late June. It is an opportunity to learn about the challenges facing refugees in coming to Australia and to celebrate and give thanks for the contributions they make to Australian society.
The theme this year was ‘Healing’ by drawing upon shared hardships between mainstream and refugee communities as a path to healing past wounds. AnglicareSA and Believe Housing Australia staff and customers celebrated Refugee Week by coming together to share stories over morning teas and in some instances, literally marking the day with henna body art. Here, we share with you the story of two of our employees, Ida and Ali, and the power of kindness and compassion in the refugee journey.
HEALING HOPE: Ali Akbarpour arrived in Australia as a refugee from the Middle East in 2001. Inset: (front L-R) Ali and his older brother I can return some of what I received, every day through my work.” The former Middle Eastern refugee is a valued Believe Housing Australia employee supporting customers find and stay in affordable housing. “I do whatever I can to make Adelaide a better place for everyone.”
Ali’s story
“We all need healing sometimes,” says Ali Akbarpour. Ali arrived from the Middle East by boat in 2001 and spent nine months in the Woomera detention camp awaiting a temporary visa. He believes drawing upon shared hardships between mainstream and refugee communities can heal past wounds.
“It is important to be kind to each other and spend a little bit of time to know each other because Covid has taught us how much we need each other.” Ali knows well the healing power of kindness. “People here have shown kindness, compassion and empathy to me in the last 20 years, and I am thankful
“Acceptance and appreciation of diversity is something you are so grateful for in your refugee journey because all you really want to do is belong again,” says Ida Mandelos. Ida’s story
Ida and her family arrived in Australia in 1983 with one suitcase, a guitar, a teddy bear and $US100. They left behind their family, country, and culture. “It was really tough, and my healing didn’t begin until I was much older.” She says kindness and compassion through understanding was pivotal to her sense of belonging in Adelaide.
Ida was six-years-old when she and her parents fled Communist-ruled Poland to an Austrian refugee camp in the 1980s. “I remember rooms lined with bunk beds filled with strangers,” says Ida, who manages AnglicareSA’s foster care services in Adelaide’s southern suburbs. “Dad and uncle had to take turns sitting up to guard us while we were sleeping.”
ACCEPTANCE KEY: Ida Mandelos with photos of her as a child in Poland
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An Adelaide family’s housing crisis
Kylie * and her two children have been living out of emergency accommodation – a motel room in metro Adelaide – for more than four months. The young family’s housing crisis is one felt by a growing cohort of households as rent across the state skyrockets, limited affordable accommodation is exhausted, and cost of living keeps rising. Our case workers, like Ally ( pictured right ), are supporting more than 150 parents and children in emergency accommodation across metropolitan Adelaide. Right now, more than 6,000 people experience homelessness each night in our state, and more than 30,000 people are on the state’s social housing waiting list. By the end of this year, we expect to help 3,000 South Australians who are homeless or at risk of homelessness through our services. “I definitely didn’t expect to be in a hotel room for this long,” says Kylie. Kylie couch-surfed with family from July last year following a relationship breakdown that left her homeless and unable to secure a rental property in Adelaide’s tight market. In March, she and her two daughters had to find another place to stay and just couldn’t. Facing rough sleeping with her children, Kylie sought last resort, crisis accommodation in a motel through the state’s homeless support line. She’s been cooking with a microwave, kettle and toaster in a room that has not much else than two double beds. There is nowhere for the kids to play indoors, let alone outdoors. They are in this room together 24/7. “It’s not nice. We don’t have any personal space. It’s depressing – there’s nothing we can afford (rental), or it’s snapped up very quickly and
READY TO ASSIST: AnglicareSA case manager Ally supporting Adelaide mum Kylie* find more stable accommodation
“Our teams are working harder than ever to help families and individuals get back on their feet through a number of service and supports so they can find a more stable roof over their heads,” she said. Michelle Gegenhuber, Executive General Manager of Believe Housing Australia, said: “We know stable housing makes everything else possible – employment, education, and better quality of life, health, wellbeing and living longer.”
I have a good rental history and still I have no luck.” Kylie has a fixed income and can spend $330 a week on rent. She says that leaves her about $25 after bills and groceries. “I’ve applied for about 260 properties actively since March this year alone,” says Kylie. “I can’t wait to be able to cook good, nutritious food for the kids, and have some space for them to run and play and be kids.” Families we support are staying longer in emergency accommodation. In the first half of this year, we had 22 families in emergency accommodation for more than 100 nights (three-four months) compared to three families for all of 2020. “Across all our homeless services, we are currently experiencing more demand than we have accommodation – this is a state-wide issue that has been exacerbated by COVID-19 and cost-of-living pressures,” said Nancy Penna, Executive General Manager of Community Services.
* Kylie did not want to be identified.
Homelessness Week in August raises awareness of the impact of homelessness on South Australians and the importance of housing as a solution. The theme for Homelessness Week 2022 was: To end homelessness we need a plan . To find out more about AnglicareSA and Believe Housing Australia’s plans visit us at www.believehousing.org. au/news/
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Funding extended for HIPPY
AnglicareSA has welcomed a five-year funding extension for the Home Interaction Program for Parents and Youngsters (HIPPY) recently announced by Minister for Families and Social Services Amanda Rishworth MP. HIPPY Australia is a free, two-year, home-based, early learning and parenting program for families with young children, which is improving children’s school-readiness through AnglicareSA’s Elizabeth and Christies Beach sites. Children’s earliest and most powerful learning comes from their family with parents laying the foundations for success at school by teaching literacy, numeracy and language skills that support a love of learning throughout life. Parents are supported to shape their child’s learning opportunities around their strengths and interests and to bring learning off the page and into the world. We call it ‘Everywhere Learning’ – taking HIPPY activities to everyday situations and places.
Brothers band together for mental health SPECIAL BOND: Six Brothers’ Ben and Clayton with AnglicareSA case coordinator Stuart
the scenes. Members range in age from 18 through to 70 and come from all walks of life with the club offering them a safe space and community to be open about their own mental health struggles. “You feel relief when you speak about it,” he says. “We’re all like-minded blokes and we’ve been through something similar so if we can sit down, talk about it every now and then, then it’s a bit of weight lifted off the shoulders.” The club hosted a Suicide Prevention Run last year to raise money to support the AnglicareSA program that helped Clayton change his life. AnglicareSA’s Suicide Prevention Service is a free program providing practical and emotional support to individuals and families following a suicide attempt. Individuals and families are offered three months of intensive support through home visits and telephone contact. If you or someone you know needs immediate help, please contact: Lifeline: 13 11 14 Beyond Blue: 1300 22 4636 Suicide Call Back Service: 1300 659 467 Or dial 000 if it is an emergency
Clayton tried to take his own life four times. The fifth time – in 2019 – Clayton died. Thankfully, the quick-thinking actions of a police officer brought the Adelaide man back to life. Clayton spent the next two months in hospital learning how to speak. While lying in his hospital bed, he decided it was time to turn his struggle with mental health into something positive for himself and others. Connecting with AnglicareSA’s Suicide Prevention Service, Clayton worked with case coordinator Stuart and brought together his passion for motorbikes and his new mission in life – mental health. And so, the Six Brothers Social Motorcycle Club was formed. “The name Six Brothers is significant because, on average, six Australian men die from suicide each day,” Clayton says. “I guess it just went from there. I was hoping that people would join me, and they did. It’s not something I ever thought I’d do because I’m not much of a public bloke – but I love it now.” In a short time, the club has grown to 20 riding members and another 20 auxiliary members who help behind
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Work underway on $14m social and affordable housing development
37 homes
The Mansfield Park housing development will deliver:
Believe Housing Australia has started construction of a housing development in Mansfield Park that will deliver another 37 affordable homes in 2023. Michelle Gegenhuber, Believe Housing Australia Executive General Manager, said this project was part of the organisation’s 10-year, $100M housing development pipeline. Ms Gegenhuber said the development comes on the heels of construction kick-off at another Believe Housing Australia site earlier this year – a 23-home, $11M housing development in Panorama. “This new development is in part funded by the returns generated from state government community housing transfers,” she said. “As a Tier 1 Community Housing Provider, we have the capability and capacity to take on management of public housing transferred by the state to maintain and upgrade housing, support tenants, and create communities. “We can also reinvest returns from those community housing transfers directly to increase the housing supply in South Australia. “The launch of this development at Mansfield Park is an example of one the many flow-on benefits from community housing transfers. “It’s a community, business and economic win-win for South Australia. “We know construction stimulates jobs and the economy, and that when people are securely housed, savings through increased social participation and reduced service use far outweigh the cost of investment.” Believe Housing Australia’s research report Beyond the Housing Crisis – A Home for All, launched with UniSA in May this year, showed that a
10 3-bedroom homes
2-bedroom homes 21
6 2-bedroom SDA (specialist disability accommodation) Improved Liveability homes
All homes will include off-street parking and private internal courtyards. The development will incorporate internal walking loops and shared space in the form of community gardens. Move-in date is estimated to be early 2024.
“A number of factors have contributed to the soaring levels of homelessness and housing demand we are seeing across the state. Low rent affordability and availability, low incomes, a skyrocketing property market and the effects of COVID-19 have all played a part in creating a perfect storm of high need and low supply,” she said.
coordinated, focused response across government and multiple sectors is needed to help solve Adelaide’s housing crisis. Ms Gegenhuber said it will be a mix of innovative short- and long-term actions and strategies, and systemic change, that solves SA’s housing crisis.
Construction is progressing nicely at our Woodville West affordable development site, which will see the creation of 24 new apartments, including some SDA Improved Liveability homes, and six new villas. Affordable housing on the horizon
We are on track for a mid-2023 completion date.
These will provide much-needed access to social housing for youth, older people, and people living with disability. All slabs, structural steel, internal studwork and roof framing are complete, with linings and external claddings ongoing.
Thanks to our Development Manager Richard Hubert and the wider team including Mossop Construction + Interiors, WT (Australia & New Zealand), City Collective, Lucid Consulting and FMG Engineering.
Thanks to Mossop Construction + Interiors
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Thanks for caring Aged care residents, customers and their loved ones were joined by staff from across all our portfolios and sites recently to thank our dedicated aged care staff. “We acknowledge that it takes an extraordinary amount of skill, patience, and heart to care for our senior residents and customers, especially living through two years of a global pandemic,” said CEO Grant Reubenicht. Aged Care Employee Day (ACED) was held on August 7 to celebrate the more than 900 AnglicareSA employees who provide care to elderly South Australians. #ThanksforCaring placards were popping up all over AnglicareSA in the lead up to the national day of acknowledgement. Employees from the Western Hub, to off-site events
BIG THANKS: Senior managers and staff thanking our aged care employees to mark national Aged Care Employee Day
on call to keep our senior loved ones safe, well and happy.” Head of Community Aged Care Sam Laubsch said: “Our residential, community and health and wellness aged care teams are the real superheroes.” “They have continued to provide crucial social connection, comfort and care for older South Australians at time when many have felt isolated and anxious,” said Head of Customer Health and Wellness Services Kristian Bennett.
involving senior managers and disability services staff, were happy to show their appreciation. “AnglicareSA is grateful for the dedicated and expert care and support given by our more than 900 aged care employees day in and day out,” said Aged Care Services Executive General Manager Graydn Spinks. Head of Residential Aged Care Alison Richmond said: “This day really serves to show our appreciation for our aged care employees who are always
What’s the Buzz? Over the past year, 14 therapists from our Outreach AnglicareSA Therapy Services (OATS) were accredited to deliver the social and emotional literacy program, What’s the Buzz? What’s the Buzz? is an evidence-
Traditionally taught as a 16-session program, the OATS team offers a condensed version of the program during school holidays. This allows children to meet their individual goals within a short period of time. During the July school holidays, four children aged 5-8 years attended four group sessions focused on building social and emotional intelligence. At the beginning of the program the four children relied on adult support to interact with each other and build connections. Within the four sessions the children learnt about sharing, managing conflict, winning and losing and asking to join in.
based program now used in more than 130 countries to teach children and young people social and emotional intelligence. Created by Mark Le Messurier and Madhavi Nawana Parker, the program focuses on the understanding and interpreting social scenarios, identifying and regulating one’s own emotions, and developing empathic capabilities that help children to develop long-term friendships and relationships. The program also builds resilience by giving children the tools to respond to all social situations while supporting their mental health.
BUSY BEES: children working with our staff
Across the group the children were given opportunities to practice these skills and were able to build friendships. When Leo, aged five, entered the group, he was very shy and lacked confidence in social settings. Through therapist-led interactions, he found a shared interest with a peer and a friendship blossomed. What a wonderful outcome!
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Tackling poverty We love it when schools take action to help our community. Recently, Fulham North Primary School focused activities on the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals. One group of students designed a plan to help tackle poverty and they rallied their classmates to collect food, blankets and money to donate to AnglicareSA. We are so thankful for their support.
Beyond Bank community reward program We are thrilled to share that this year AnglicareSA received $1,371 from Beyond Bank’s Community Reward program. Through this initiative Beyond Bank proudly supports not only AnglicareSA but other organisations within our community. The Community Reward program has contributed more than $630,000 to hundreds of grassroots clubs and charities across Australia this year.
Help AnglicareSA. Open an account today and save. To find out more, visit: www.beyondbank.com.
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ENDING POVERTY: Fulham North Primary School students with their donations
Don’t miss your opportunity to join us at the iconic St Peter’s Cathedral on Friday 4 November for our annual Cathedral Banquet, which brings South Australia’s business and philanthropic sectors together. Cathedral Banquet
All funds raised on the night will support AnglicareSA’s Emergency Assistance program, which provides vital food, clothing, support, and advocacy for South Australians in times of crisis.
With well-known Adelaide personality and long-time supporter of AnglicareSA Lisa McAskill as our MC for the evening, the black-tie event includes a sumptuous three-course fine dining and beverage experience, showcasing the best produce and wine South Australia has to offer. There will also be a wine wall, raffle and the opportunity to bid on a great selection of auction items.
Friday 4 November 2022
For event queries contact the Fundraising team on donate@anglicaresa.com.au or 08 8305 3400.
Dress Black tie Tickets $300 per person To purchase tickets: www.eventbrite.com.au/ethe-cathedral- banquet-tickets-290160847907
Date Time
4 November 2022
6.30pm – 11.00pm Venue St Peter’s Cathedral
27 King William Road, North Adelaide
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Meet former foster child Felicity
Nineteen-year-old Felicity was eight years old when she was placed into state care in regional South Australia.
After some serious lobbying from her church group, Felicity and her cat Hazel finally caught a break – a spot in a pilot program for youth leaving care aged 18-25. “The program saved me in so many ways,” says Felicity, who was among the first 15 young people involved in AnglicareSA and Believe Housing Australia’s Post Care Pathways (PCP) program when she arrived in May last year. The program’s award-winning service model, developed by AnglicareSA, supports up to 15 young care leavers to avoid or permanently exit homelessness by providing subsidised, stable accommodation, support services and life-long friendships and community connections. Felicity spent eight months in the program and subsequently found long-term, affordable accommodation. AnglicareSA Executive General Manager of Community Services Nancy Penna says the program had so far provided 23 young people leaving care immediate access to housing during one of our nation’s most challenging economic and social times. “Growing up is a challenge for everyone, but increasingly it is more difficult for young South Australians leaving care,” says Ms Penna.
She moved through nine foster homes and a homeless shelter until eventually ending up in a shared residential care home in Adelaide at age 16. However, the hardest challenge, says the inspirational teenager, was yet to come. On her 18th birthday, she exited the child protection system as an adult and was no longer eligible for the independent supported accommodation where she had found some stability for six months. With the global pandemic driving up record rentals costs and slashing vacancy rates, Felicity’s fixed income locked her out of the private rental market and the wait for public housing was months, if not years, away. With no family to support her, she was facing homelessness. National Institute of Health and Welfare data says an 18-year-old leaving the child protection system faces a 60 per cent chance of being homeless by the time they turn 20. “No young person should have to leave the support of the child protection system and be put on the streets” says Felicity. “If you asked me what the scariest part of my life has been so far, I would say the fear of almost becoming homeless would be it.”
INSPIRATIONAL: nineteen-year-old Felicity
Some of the programs young tenants have transitioned into private rental and social housing and almost all of those currently supported by the program are engaged in education and training or are employed. Felicity is studying to become and youth worker and in 2020 published her autobiography, Not Held Down . She is also about to launch a new business called ‘Fostering Change Australia’ to advocate for foster
Make your tax-deductible donation today and help provide the support needed to make the transition into adulthood a little less bumpy and provide hope for a future that’s a whole lot brighter. Together we change lives. The PCP program is fully funded by AnglicareSA and requires donations to continue and expand. There are currently more than a dozen young people waiting to access the PCP program. Some have been waiting for six months. children and young people in care. Every week she returns to PCP to visit staff and the young people that remain there. Your support will help more young people, just like Felicity
Online donations: www.anglicaresa.com.au and click Donate Post your cheque to: Spring Appeal, 159 Port Road, Hindmarsh SA 5007 Contact the Fundraising team on: 08 8305 9200 or donate@anglicaresa.com.au
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Thank you
From the bottom of our heart, we say thank you to our donors, volunteers, customers and supporters who generously donated to AnglicareSA’s Winter Appeal. The Winter Appeal raised more than $104,000 for AnglicareSA’s Emergency Assistance program, which provides short-term food relief, clothing and other basic essentials to individuals and families in financials crisis. We also offer financial counselling and referrals to other wrap-around support services. Donations to the Winter Appeal directly helped more than 12,000 South Australians seeking assistance at our sites – more than half of these were families with children. Winter is always a busy time for our Emergency Assistance program and with the rising cost of living, including soaring grocery bills, house prices and rent, and the economic impacts of COVID-19, even more South Australians have found themselves in crisis. With your support, our Emergency Assistance sites, in metropolitan Adelaide and regional South Australia, can continue to offer a warm and welcoming place for people to regain control of their lives. Thank you for your generous and vital support. We can’t do it without you.
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