Support for people with special needs

Community Partners Program (CPP)

The Community Partners Program (CPP) aims to promote and facilitate increased and sustained access to aged care support services by culturally and linguistically diverse communities with significant aged care needs.

The primary outcomes of the CPP will include:

• More aged care support services delivering culturally appropriate care to older persons from culturally and linguistically diverse communities;
• Older people from culturally and linguistically diverse communities having increased access to culturally appropriate age care support services;
• Older people from culturally and linguistically diverse communities having greater capacity to make informed decisions about aged care support services; and
• Formalised arrangement made that will sustain the benefits of the Project and its strategies and continue to promote and facilitate increased access by culturally and linguistically diverse communities to aged care support services.
  

Guidelines for the CPP program have been drafted to assist in the development and management of CPP funded projects. They provide details of the program, eligibility, accountability and roles and responsibilities and are available for download in HTML or PDF format:

Community Partners Program (CPP) Guidelines

If you are unable to download the PDF file, please send an email to: acc@health.gov.au for a copy to be sent to you.

Community Partners Program 2007-2008

Older people in Australia’s migrant communities will have better access to culturally-appropriate aged care under new funding announced in the 2007 Federal Budget, which provides an additional $13.2 million over five years.

The Minister for Ageing, Christopher Pyne, said an additional 35 projects are being funded under the Government’s Community Partners Program. This doubles the number of projects funded under this program.

“The Community Partners Program puts culturally and linguistically diverse communities in touch with aged-care service providers, and helps those providers to offer culturally sensitive services,” Mr Pyne said.

Mr Pyne said groups to benefit under the expanded program include the Greek, Macedonian, Indian, Ukrainian, Indonesian, Filipino, Serbian, Chinese and Sri Lankan communities.

“In addition, a number of organisations are being supported to assist or mentor other smaller or less well established communities. For example, in South Australia the Italian Benevolent Foundation has been funded to provide support and assistance to help Arabic-speaking communities to access aged-care services,” Mr Pyne said.

“This is an excellent example of two different Australian cultural communities working in harmony.”

“Language and cultural differences should not be a barrier to access effective aged care” Mr Pyne said.

Organisations that have been successful in 2007-08 under the Community Partners Program are listed below:

Organisation	Target Location	Target Community
Tasmania
Migrant Resource Centre (Southern Tasmania) Inc	Southern Tasmania	Multiple
Migrant Resource Centre (Southern Tasmania) Inc	Tasmania - Statewide	Multiple – to PICAC for an increased role in the maximisation of outcomes of CPP projects
Queensland
The Ethnic Communities Council of Queensland Ltd	Townsville and Charters Towers	Filipino
The Ethnic Communities Council of Queensland Ltd	Cairns	Multiple
The Ethnic Communities Council of Queensland Ltd	Queensland Statewide	Multiple – to PICAC for an increased role in the maximisation of outcomes of CPP projects
Co.As.It. Italian Australian Welfare Association Inc	Brisbane, Gold Coast, Townsville and surrounds, Cairns and surrounds	Italian
Chaicare Agency Pty Ltd	South East Queensland	Jewish
Multicultural Communities Council - Gold Coast Inc	Gold Coast	Multiple
Greek Orthodox Community of St. George, Brisbane	Brisbane and Gold Coast	Greek speaking people from various countries
South Australia
Co.As.It. (SA) Italian Assistance Association Inc	Metropolitan SA	Italian
Italian Benevolent Foundation (SA) Inc	Metropolitan SA	Arabic
Chinese Welfare Services of SA Inc	Metropolitan SA	Chinese
Greek Orthodox Community of SA Inc	Adelaide	Greek Heritage - SE European, Cypriot, Greek Egyptians
Helping Hand Aged Care Inc	Metropolitan Adelaide	Cambodian, Filipino, Laotian, Vietnamese
Resthaven Inc	Metro Adelaide, Murray Bridge, Adelaide Hills, The Mid-Murray Council (Mannum, Naracoorte)	German Speaking
Multicultural Aged Care Inc	South Australia	Multiple – to PICAC for an increased role in the maximisation of outcomes of CPP projects
New South Wales
NSW Spanish and Latin American Association for Social Assistance Inc (NSW SLASA)	Metropolitan Sydney	Spanish
St Carthage’s Cathedral Parish Community Care	Far North Coast	Italian, Indian, Asian, German, Dutch, Filipino
Macedonian-Australian Welfare Association of Sydney Inc	Sydney	Macedonian
Greek Welfare Centre	Metropolitan Sydney, Illawarra and Hunter	Greek
Cambodian Australian Welfare Council of NSW Inc	Fairfield and Liverpool	Cambodian
Co.As.It. Italian Association of Assistance	North East Sydney, Western Sydney	Italian
IT.SO.WEL. Italian Social Welfare Organisation of Wollongong	Illawarra	Italian
Mountains Community Resource Network Inc	Blue Mountains	Multiple
The Fraternal Society of the Tripoli and Mena Districts Ltd	Inner West, South West, Western Regions of Sydney	Arabic Muslim
Migrant Network Services (Northern Sydney) Ltd	Northern Sydney	Afghan, Maronite, Iranian, Iraqi
Australian Korean Welfare Association Ltd	Metropolitan Sydney	Korean
Illawarra Ethnic Communities Council Inc	Illawarra	Ukrainian
Indonesian Welfare Association Inc	Metropolitan Sydney	Indonesian
Polish Welfare and Information Bureau in NSW Inc	Sydney Metropolitan and outreach to South Eastern and Northern Sydney, Wollongong and Newcastle	Polish
Broken Hill Multicultural Women’s Resource & Information Centre Inc	Broken Hill	Multiple
Australian Nursing Home Foundation Ltd	Metropolitan Sydney	Chinese
NSW Transcultural Aged Care Service	NSW Statewide	Multiple – to PICAC for an increased role in the maximisation of outcomes of CPP projects
Western Australia
Association for Services to Torture and Trauma Survivors (ASETTS) Inc	Metropolitan Perth	Multiple
Alzheimer’s Australia WA Ltd	Metropolitan Perth	Greek and Macedonian
Fremantle Multicultural Centre	South West Region	Multiple
Greek Orthodox Welfare Association of WA	Metropolitan Perth	Greek and Macedonian
ItaloAustralian Welfare Cultural Centre Inc	Metropolitan Perth and South-west region	Italians
The Australian-Asian Association of WA Inc	Metropolitan Perth	Indian, Burmese, Goan, Malaysian and Sri Lankan
West Australian Association of Polish Women Inc	Metropolitan Perth	Polish and Eastern European
The Chung Wah Association Inc	Metropolitan Perth	Chinese, Vietnamese and Cambodian
Multicultural Aged Care Service WA	Western Australia Statewide	Multiple – to PICAC for an increased role in the maximisation of outcomes of CPP projects
Victoria
Australian-Polish Community Services Inc	Gippsland, Barwon and Grampians Regions	Polish
CELAS – Spanish Latin American Welfare Centre Inc	Metropolitan Melbourne	Spanish
Diversitat	Geelong and expansion into Barwon South Western Region of Victoria	Serbian, Spanish, Ukrainian and Maltese
Fronditha Care Inc	Metropolitan Melbourne	Greek
Maltese Community Council of Victoria Inc	Victoria Statewide	Maltese
Migrant Information Centre (Eastern Melbourne) Ltd	Eastern Metroplitan Melbourne	Chinese, Indian, Hungarian, Iranian, former Yugoslavia
Gippsland Multicultural Services Inc	Gippsland with expansion into outlying Local Government Areas	Multiple
Regional Information and Advocacy Council Inc	Moira and Strathbogie Shires, rural city of Benalla and Greater Shepparton	Macedonian and Albanian
Co.As.It.Italian Assistance Association	Victoria – expansion across all Rural Regions	Italian community in Victoria
Filipino Community Council of Vic Inc	Northern and Western Metropolitan Regions	Filipino
St John of Kronstadt Russian Welfare Society Inc	Metropolitan Melbourne and Geelong	Russian and Serbian
City of Greater Bendigo	Loddon Mallee Region	Dutch, German, Italian and Turkish
Serbian Welfare Association of Victoria Inc	Southern Metropolitan Region	Serbian
Australian Croatian Community Services Inc	Western Metropolitan Melbourne	Croatian and Bosnian-Herzegovina
Macedonian Community Welfare Association Inc	Northern and Western Metropolitan Regions	Macedonian
South Eastern Region Migrant Resource Centre Inc	Southern Metropolitan Region	Chinese
Federation of Indian Association of Victoria Inc	Metropolitan Melbourne	Indian
Victorian Arabic Social Services Inc	Northern and Western regions of Metropolitan Melbourne	Arabic speaking and working with Greek speaking community
Australian Greek Welfare Society Ltd	Northern Metropolitan region of Melbourne	Greek
Anglican Aged Care Services Group (Benetas) – Centre for Cultural Diversity in Ageing	Victoria Statewide	Multiple – to PICAC for an increased role in the maximisation of outcomes of CPP projects
Anglican Aged Care Services Group (Benetas) – Centre for Cultural Diversity in Ageing	Nationally	Multiple
Australian Capital Territory
ACT Health	Canberra	Multiple
ACT Chinese Australian Association Inc	ACT	Chinese
ACT Health	ACT	Multiple – to PICAC for an increased role in the maximisation of outcomes of CPP projects
Northern Territory
NT Carers Inc	Greater Darwin Region	Multiple
Council on the Ageing NT Inc	Greater Darwin Region	Multiple – to PICAC for an increased role in the maximisation of outcomes of CPP projects

Projects

Projects funded under the Community Partners Program (CPP) will provide aged care support services to older people from culturally and linguistically diverse communities to assist them to gain access to residential and other aged care services.
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