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Help us give a child a Christmas worth remembering
Summary: Every year, Baptcare holds a children's Christmas party for disadvantaged children and families. We are calling on individuals and businesses in the community to be a part of this year’s party and give struggling families and their children a Christmas to remember.
Date of publication: 30/09/2008
Author: Marketing and Communications Dept.
Ten year rebuilding project nears completion
Summary: Ten years ago, we embarked on a building project that has seen major re-developments completed at each of our six Victorian residential aged care facilities.
Date of publication: 16/09/2008
Author: Marketing & Communications Dept.
Minister for Ageing launches Baptcare's PITCH study
Summary: Our ground-breaking study has given insight into the most critical issues affecting the delivery of aged care today including depression and social isolation, and is the first of its kind in Australia.
Date of publication: 24/07/2008
Author: Marketing and Communications Dept.
Baptcare and Karingal Care have merged
Summary: The new partnership of Karingal Care Services and Baptcare became effective in July 2008. The merger will ensure the long term security of Karingal and add to Baptcare’s reputation as a provider of quality aged care services.
Date of publication: 11/06/2008
Author: Marketing and Communications Dept.
Seeding grants for Baptist congregations in Victoria
Summary: Baptcare's new seeding grants program makes grants of up to $10,000 available to congregations of the Baptist Union of Victoria.
Date of publication: 28/05/2008
Author: Marketing and Communications Dept.
Caring Friends program brings comfort to the socially isolated
Summary: Baptcare’s Caring Friends program is an exciting volunteer project that provides support to socially isolated elderly people in Gippsland.
Date of publication: 29/04/2008
Author: Marketing and Communications Dept.
Baptcare's new Learn, Play, Talk program gets kids talking
Summary: Abercare’s Early Years - Learn, Play, Talk program is an exciting new initiative supporting families in the western suburbs of Melbourne. These families are on a Department of Education and Early Childhood Development (DEECD) waiting list for essential services for their preschool children with autism or language and/or developmental delays.
Date of publication: 29/04/2008
Author: Marketing and Communications Dept.
Baptcare's Home Start program expands to Bendigo
Summary: Baptcare’s Chief Executive Mr Jeff Davey today announced that Baptcare's family services division will be expanding its Home-Start program to Bendigo to assist vulnerable families in need.
Date of publication: 28/04/2008
Author: Marketing and Communications Dept.
Church seeding grants now available for community initiatives of up to $10,000
Summary: Baptcare's Church seeding grants program will fund initiatives of up to $10,000, enabling local Baptist churches to assist their communities in areas of need.
Date of publication: 15/04/2008
Author: Marketing and Communications Dept.
New environmentally friendly op shop opens
Summary: Baptcare’s Bargain Browser retail store in Brunswick has been transformed into an ‘ethical and earth-kind op shop’ called eekos. The new store is a partnership between Baptcare and Green Collect.
Date of publication: 14/04/2008
Author: Marketing and Communications Dept.
Spreading Christmas cheer for families
Summary: In the lead-up to Christmas Abercare asked the local community for help in providing children in their care with a Christmas worth remembering. The response was fantastic with an influx of gifts and monetary donations from the community to assist with Abercare’s Christmas party and Santa Shop.
Date of publication: 22/02/2008
Author: Marketing and Communications Dept.
Drought stricken Victorians in need of relief
Summary: Drought stricken communities will receive much needed relief with the launch of Baptcare’s second drought relief appeal in partnership with the Baptist Union of Victoria
Date of publication: 22/02/2008
Author: Marketing and Communications Dept.
Volunteers help prepare home for asylum seekers
Summary: With the help of volunteers from local Churches, Baptcare's building in Brunswick that will become home to 20 asylum seekers in March, has received a fresh coat of paint and a good clean...
Date of publication: 30/01/2008
Author: Marketing and Communications Dept.
A place of sanctuary for asylum seekers
Summary: In a project that will be the first of its kind in Australia, Baptcare is partnering with Hotham Mission and Brunswick Baptist Church to establish affordable housing for male asylum seekers.
Date of publication: 21/01/2008
Author: Marketing and Communications Department
Baptcare wins award for excellence in aged care
Summary: Baptcare has won one of nine Minister’s Awards for Excellence in Aged Care in the category of ‘Training and Staff Development’
Date of publication: 20/09/2007
Author: Marketing and Communications Department
Baptcare receives 121 community packages
Summary: Baptcare has received a total of 121 community packages in the 2007 Aged Care Allocation Round, announced by Christopher Pyne, Minister for Aging, on September 13th...
Date of publication: 20/09/2007
Author: Marketing and Communications Department
First Concrete Pours Mark Start of Nursing Home Re-development
Summary: The re-build of Baptcare’s St Hilary’s Community in Morwell will commence next week as the first concrete pours take place. The re-development of the nursing home will see an extra 21 beds available to the local community.
Date of publication: 17/08/2007
Author: Marketing and Communications Department
Working together to fill the emptiness of dementia
Summary: Dementia clients of Baptcare’s Southern Community Aged Care program are set to have their senses pleasured and their minds stimulated through the gift of ‘activity aprons’ from a local craft group.
Date of publication: 12/07/2007
Author: Marketing & Communications Department
Abercare Wins Victorian Children’s Charities Award
Summary: Local provider of family, children and disability support services, Abercare Family Services, was awarded one of seven highly sought after state-wide Children’s Charities Awards in the category of ’Out of Home Care‘ this week.
Date of publication: 04/06/2007
Author: Marketing and Communications Department
Families Needed to Help Families in the Northwest
Summary: In an exciting new initiative in Melbourne’s Northwest region, seven children with a disability (aged between 6 and twelve) can now access respite care in the homes of caregivers, through Abercare’s HomeStay Program.
Date of publication: 25/05/2007
Author: Marketing & Communications Department
Children Dream Away for Abercare
Summary: The imaginations of Moonee Valley children will run wild while they frantically construct creative pieces of art to submit to Abercare’s “I Dream” Art Competition in the next two months.
Date of publication: 25/05/2007
Author: Marketing & Communications Department
Federal Funding For Brimbank Families
Summary: Abercare Family Services’ Brimbank Home Start Program was recently successful in receiving $115,000 in renewed federal funding, Baptcare CEO Jeff Davey announced this month.
Date of publication: 21/05/2007
Author: Marketing & Communications Department
Canterbury Mansion's New Lease on Life
Summary: An old Canterbury Mansion began a $25m new lease on life when building works began to reinvent it as a residential aged care facility in June 2006. Building works have been progressing as planned for the last year, and are due to be complete in 12 months.
Date of publication: 15/05/2007
Author: Marketing and Communications Department
City West Water lends a hand
Summary: City West Water staff have donated their Christmas bonuses to Abercare Family Services to assist in purchasing a new bus to transport children with disabilities to activity programs.
Date of publication: 04/04/2007
Author: Marketing and Communications Department
Board Approval Received for St Hilary's Rebuild
Summary: Jeff Davey, Chief Executive, is delighted to announce the board have approved the St Hilary’s rebuilding project...
Date of publication: 04/04/2007
Author: Marketing & Communications Department
Relief for families facing parenting pressure
Summary: Moonee Valley families close to breaking point are now able to access Abercare’s free In-Home Support Program to help them with parenting, life strategies and household management...
Date of publication: 15/03/2007
Author: Marketing & Communications Department
A great wrap for Abercare
Summary: Dedicated volunteers, generous organisations and the support of Chadstone, Highpoint, Northland and Forest Hill Chase Shopping Centres assisted Abercare Family Services to raise a total of $27,000 through the 2006 Christmas Gift Wrapping Stalls...
Date of publication: 15/03/2007
Author: Marketing & Communications Department
Children Cry out for Foster Carers
Summary: Abercare is unable to find foster carers for up to 10 children per week as the cities of Moonee Valley and Brimbank do not have enough foster carers to go around...
Date of publication: 05/02/2007
Author: Marketing and Communications Department
100 Aged Packages for Baptcare
Summary: Baptcare was allocated a total of 100 community packages in the 2006 Aged Care Approvals Round, receiving the highest package allocation of any provider in Victoria...
Date of publication: 02/02/2007
Author: Marketing and Communications Department
New Address for Abercare's Expansion
Summary: Abercare Family Services is packing up and shifting to a new and improved building....
Date of publication: 18/05/2006
Author: Marketing & Communications Department
Karana Residents Form Friendships with Grade Fours
Summary: Excitement, anticipation and a degree of nervousness will affect a group of Carey Grammar Grade Four students when they enter Karana Community to meet their adopted Grandparent Buddies on March 1st 2006.
Date of publication: 02/03/2006
Author: Marketing & Communications Department
Westhaven Awarded for Excellence
Summary: Westhaven Community was recognised for its excellence in supporting multicultural employees when it was awarded the prestigious AMES Employers’ Multicultural Practice Award......
Date of publication: 02/03/2006
Author: Marketing & Communications Department
BCC Leads Victorian Aged Care Allocation
Summary: BCC was allocated 270 community aged care places in the 2005 Aged Care Allocation Round, the highest allocation of a service provider in Victoria....
Date of publication: 02/03/2006
Author: Marketing & Communications Department
Dealing With Dementia - Southaven's Role in Respite
Summary: It is families like the Davidson’s that are the true beneficiaries of the recent funding that the Commonwealth Government allocated Baptist Community Care’s (BCC) Southaven facility in Bentleigh.
Date of publication: 21/02/2006
Author: Marketing & Communications Department
New Initiative Assists our Elderly
Summary: In an exciting new initiative, Baptist Community Care's Bairnsdale Office is recruiting community members to volunteer and visit elderly aged care clients
Date of publication: 30/12/2005
Author: Marketing & Communications Department
Strathalan Resident Scores a Century
Summary: Strathalan Community resident, Jeannie Parker can expect a telegraph from the Queen when she celebrates her 100th birthday
Date of publication: 30/12/2005
Author: Marketing & Communications Department
Church Nursing Service; Working Against Winter Woes
Summary: Church Nursing Service (CNS) has provided the City of Moreland's older community with head to toe nursing and personal care for over 40 years.
Date of publication: 30/12/2005
Author: Marketing & Communications Department
Warrnambool Office opens its doors to Community Aged Care
Summary: Baptist Community Care will have an official opening for their Community Aged Care Office in Warrnambool on Monday the 11th July at 12pm
Date of publication: 30/12/2005
Author: Marketing & Communications Department
Dame Asks Community to Dig Deep for Dementia
Summary: BCC needs to raise $500,000 so it can begin building a new 37 bed Dementia Specific Unit
Date of publication: 30/12/2005
Author: Marketing & Communications Department
Just as Much Fun as Dancing with the Stars
Summary: Local Dance Group, the 'Local Valley Ballroom Dancers' has entertained the residents of St Hilary's Community in Morwell
Date of publication: 30/12/2005
Author: Marketing & Communications Department
Foster Carers Do Make a Difference
Summary: Abercare Family Services desperately require people to come forward and become foster carers.
Date of publication: 30/12/2005
Author: Marketing & Communications Department
Helping Home Start
Summary: Helping Home Start; Volunteers needed to join Abercare's home visiting program.
Date of publication: 30/12/2005
Author: Marketing & Communications Department
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