Start: 2018-05-03T08:00:00
End: 2018-05-03T10:00:00
Location: Factory Community Centre, 67 Raglan Street, Waterloo
REDWatch wants to hear from
service users, public tenants and residents about what they think needs
to be fixed in the human services system. This meeting REDWatch has invited
some service users to provide some brief inputs on their experience of the human
services system to set the scene. This will then be followed by a discussion
facilitated by Lyn Lormer from the Local
Community Services Association (LCSA). Lyn has been trained in the “Harwood
Collective Impact” process, which has been used in a number of communities and
she will use some of her skills to help us identify what needs to happen to
address human service issues in our area. Grant Lavender from The Factory will
be at the meeting to provide support to Counterpoint CS
service users participating.
I encourage you to come along,
bring your stories and ideas about what
could be changed to make the system better. The REDWatch meeting is at 6pm,
Thursday 3rd May 2018 at the Factory Community Centre, 67 Raglan
Street, Waterloo – this is an opportunity for local residents to raise
their comments about what needs to change in the human
services system. REDWatch will collate the
issues raised and feed them into the human service discussions.
So what are human services?
Inner Sydney Voice in its latest magazine
describe them as:
Human Services are those which provide a service to
society, particularly in times of crisis. Human Services are designed to help
people navigate through crisis or chronic situations where the person feels
they need external help and guidance to move forward with their life and
rediscover their self-sufficiency. Sometimes the situation the person needs
help with is external, such as the loss of a job or income, the need for food
or housing or for help getting out of a dangerous situation, such as family violence.
For other people the difficulty is an internal challenge such as depression, a
physical ailment, disability, or other mental or physical health crisis.
[Adapted from humanserviceedu.org]