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Welcome to the Broadmeadows UnitingCare Website. I hope that you find it informative and interesting.
Broadmeadows UnitingCare is a community service agency auspiced by the Uniting Church, based in the suburb of Broadmeadows in Melbourne, Australia. Our Mission is to support and advocate on behalf of families and children, and to alleviate poverty and disadvantage.
This Website gives you some insight into the work of this Agency in one of the most disadvantaged areas of Melbourne. Our Newsletters, issued three times each year, provides up to date news on the progress on each of our services, staff news and other items of interest. More detailed information can be found by looking at the Annual Report and Programs areas.
Many people support the work of Broadmeadows UnitingCare.
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A large band of people work as volunteers in our emergency relief and children's services areas, in our "Bargain Centre" Opportunity Shops and in general support work for the agency.
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Other supporters send or bring food for distribution through our emergency relief program, and give us second hand clothing and other items for resale in our Bargain centres, and
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We have many friends who make regular financial donations (large and small) that help us to continue our work.
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Broadmeadows UnitingCare
serves a very important function in ensuring that the concern of many people
for the vulnerable and disadvantaged is translated into effective and tangible
help and support.
You are more than welcome to contact us by phone or e-mail for further information or to offer to help in some way.
Thank you for visiting our Website.
Regards
Phil Conrick
Executive Director
Broadmeadows Uniting Care Organisational Profile
Vision StatementMission Statement
Brief Profile of the Agency
Philosophical Underpinning
Core Business
Agency Context and External Links
Broadmeadows Uniting Care seeks to be a progressive and creative, community based agency which provides a range of effective and integrated services responding to the needs of disadvantaged and vulnerable children, youth and families in Broadmeadows and the north-western suburbs of Melbourne.
The Mission of Broadmeadows Uniting Care is to provide high quality services to children, youth and adults in the Broadmeadows and surrounding communities, especially those who are disadvantaged, and to provide services that improve the welfare of the whole community.
Broadmeadows Uniting Care is a Uniting Church community service agency which has over 25 years of experience in providing a wide range of services to the people of the Broadmeadows community. Broadmeadows Uniting Care is a well-known and highly respected community service agency, responding to the needs of the local community.
Broadmeadows Uniting Care was previously known as "Care" Welfare Agency of Broadmeadows Uniting Church Parish Mission.Broadmeadows Uniting Care has no association with Care Australia.
Broadmeadows Uniting Care aims to provide services of the highest quality which:
show compassion for the vulnerable
encourage people to value and use their strengths
advocate on behalf of those who are disadvantaged
challenge
inequity and injustice and work for social change
Broadmeadows Uniting Care at the Broadmeadows Spring Festival
Core
Business(All
details refer to Program and Services Page)
Agency
Context and External Links
Agency core business involves Broadmeadows Uniting Care staff in extensive collaboration and coordination with other agencies and workers in the community. Agency staff involvement in the range of service networks varies according to the different programs, although the agency does maintain particularly strong links with local service providers in the Cities of Hume and Moreland.
A major collaborator and purchaser of Broadmeadows Uniting Care services is the Victorian Department of Human Services and the Commonwealth Department of Family and Community Services.