Community Resources provides services that meet local community needs. These include Homebase, Great Lakes and Manning Youth Homelessness Service (GLAMYHS), Helping Hands and WasteAid.

Homebase offers holistic wrap-around services to young and Aboriginal people in Manning and Great Lakes regions, to help them build skills and access opportunities that make life better. Programs include supported playgroup, homework club, Transition to Work, Targeted Early intervention, Driver Learner Access Program (DLAP), surfing programs, Youth Week events, NAIDOC week events, self-esteem groups, anti-bullying programs, and health and wellbeing programs.

GLAMYHS is a specialist homeless service that helps young people have safe housing, providing crisis accommodation, transitional properties and outreach services in Manning, Great Lakes and Gloucester regions. These options include crisis short-term (up to 3 months) accommodation at our refuge for people aged 12-17, medium-term (up to 9 months) accommodation in our transitional properties for people aged 16-24, and outreach support for people aged 16-24.

Helping Hands is a social enterprise on the NSW Mid North Coast that provides care services and building maintenance and modification services to help people live in their own homes for as long as possible. Our care services include cleaning, personal care, respite (including sleepovers), welfare checks, medication prompts, meal preparation, transport and shopping assistance. Our building maintenance and modification services include garden and building maintenance, basic modifications such as installation of grab-rails and handrails, and more complex modifications such as the installation of ramps and bathroom and kitchen modifications.

WasteAid is a program that works across NSW with discrete Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities, to co-design waste solutions that work for and can be sustained by local communities. This work includes waste evaluations, management plans and training, community workshops and education, assisting to develop better waste services, and procuring waste services and infrastructure.

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