Community networks
Seniors' Alliance (SA)
The Seniors’ Alliance (SA) has been established to provide an inclusive platform for Seniors services and advocates to come together.
The Seniors Alliance will:
- Maintain a community engagement model to build a resilient and knowledgeable community.
- Support older residents who feel isolated to build stronger connections
- Promote a solutions-based mindset of emerging gaps and barriers for senior residents
- Promote inclusion and participation within the seniors’ community; programmed and incidental
- Community sector engagement and participation, encouraging seniors led activities
- Facilitate pathways for education programs to facilitate lifelong learning in Seniors
- Encourage partnerships that value add to diversity and culture participation
- Support a coordinated approach to future proofing the Region so seniors feel supported
- Build the service providers responsiveness to localised solutions to localised barriers and gaps
- Identify opportunities for services to collaborate for active and healthy activities for seniors
- Promote improved education sharing and transparency between services for seniors’ benefit
- Activate opportunities to engage Council representatives in seniors planning
- Promote a community led approach to combating societal issues
- Strengthen partnerships which build seniors community capacity to connect
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Bundaberg Regional Council supports the following community networks in working towards better opportunities for the Bundaberg community.
| Networks | Time | Frequency | Venue | Contact email |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| All Abilities Alliance | 9am to 11am | Bi-monthly - 2nd Thursday | Varied location | comdev@bundaberg.qld.gov.au |
| Bundaberg Elder Abuse Awareness Network | 2pm to 3pm | Monthly - 3rd Tuesday | Relationships Australia | generalenquiries@raq.org.au |
| Bundaberg Interagency Meeting | 1pm to 2.30pm | Monthly - 3rd Thursday | Bundaberg Neighbourhood Centre, 111 Targo St | info@bundabergneighbourhoodcentre.org.au |
| Seniors Alliance (SA) | 2pm to 3pm | Monthly - 3rd Monday | Supper Room, Civic Centre | comdev@bundaberg.qld.gov.au |
| Childers Interagency Meeting | 10am to 12pm | Bi-monthly - 1st Tuesday | Childers Neighbourhood Centre, 69 Churchill St, Childers | cnc@bundaberg.qld.gov.au |
| Community Youth Collective | 9am to 10.30am | Monthly - First Friday | Varied Locations | comdev@bundaberg.qld.gov.au |
| Gin Gin Interagency Meeting | 10am to 11.30am | Bi-monthly - 2nd Wednesday | Gin Gin Neighbourhood Centre, 4 Dear St, Gin Gin | ggnc@bundaberg.qld.gov.au |
| Family and Baby Network | 1pm to 2.30pm | Monthly - 1st Monday | Uniting Care Community, 3A River Terrace | bundabergfab@gmail.com |
| Local Level Alliance | 10am to 12pm | Bi-monthly - 3rd Tuesday | Bundaberg Neighbourhood Centre,111 Targo St | jodie.lucarini@actforkids.com.au |