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Friendly Faces Helping Hands Foundation

Friendly Faces Helping Hands Foundation is a service set up to support and advocate for rural people and communities. Helping them through their Health Journey. It has a centralized resource for rural patients and their carers / families, information on the Friendly Faces Helping Hands Website includes a hospital directory for services and resources close to hospitals, with links and phone numbers for affordable accommodation, parking and transport, food and retail, and contacts for support workers (Aboriginal liaison officers, social workers, chaplaincy services).

Friends of Refugees

Friends of Refugees is an independent not-for-profit organisation which has responded to the world’s worst humanitarian crisis and helps to create a positive future for people seeking asylum and refugees in Australia.

Founded in early 2013, Friends of Refugees Inc. (FOR) has developed as a practical response to address the complexities and changing needs of people seeking asylum and refugees in Victoria by filling the service gaps that other funded organisations do not meet. Friends of Refugees has become a central source of first-line relief for people seeking asylum in Melbourne’s south-east. The ranges of services we provide include material aid, food aid, education support, job training and resettlement programs. Our office in Dandenong operates as a drop-in centre which provides a welcoming and safe environment for people in desperate need.

People seeking asylum are one of the most vulnerable and disadvantaged groups in Australia.

Friends with Dignity

We are a not for profit organisation founded by Manuela (former co-founder of Assist A Sista) providing real and practical support to people impacted by domestic violence.

Gailes Community House

Gailes Community House provides a social setting where people are able to meet with friends and neighbours for a cuppa and a chat and to participate in one of the many social inclusive or family support programs on offer. It has become an integral part of the community and is something that is shared by all who access it.

Gailes Community House runs a number of programs for both adults, children and families. We run parenting programs throughout the year and we also run a low cost food program. Gailes Community House also provides individual support, information and referral to people in the local community.
We are eligible for DGR donations via the Australian Neighbourhood Houses and Centres Association.

Galangoor Duwalami Primary Health Care Service - Hervey Bay

Primary Health Care

Galangoor Duwalami Primary Health Care Service - Maryborough

Deliver primary health care services including social and emotional wellbeing to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander community

Galilee School - Communities@Work

Galilee School provides a therapeutic learning environment for young people who are unable to function in a mainstream school setting. Many of our young people come from disadvantaged backgrounds with significant trauma, and require additional support with behavioural issues, learning difficulties and social and emotional wellbeing.
A number of our young people and their families are often requiring additional supports with day to day and household items that they require support with.

Gallawah Foundation

Gallawah Supports community with a Disability, at risk of entering the justice system. Participants with Mental Health, complexed disability, addiction, behaviours, in out of home care, foster care, aged care, Homelessness and in Prison living with a disability.

Ganggalah Church

Ganggalah is a local church in the Tweed Shire, who's mandate is to reach out and support the Indigenous community in our districts.

GAPDL Communities for Children

Gladstone Region Communities for Children is a family-friendly program funded by the Federal Government's Department of Social Services.

Communities for Children are committed to their vision 'Living, learning and growing together for stronger families and stronger futures.' Working with the community, we want to empower families to function more effectively, advocating that parents and carers have the most critical role to play in their child's health, well being and education.

We want to ensure families have access to the necessary support resources and networks that will help develop a stronger family friendly culture.

The Communities for Children program supports children and their families from diverse cultural backgrounds. We aim to assist parents, carers and early childhood professionals to gain access to information, resources and training. Together... we can move forward into a culture of stronger families and stronger futures.

George Town Neighbourhood House

Neighbourhood Houses are special because they are run to help the local community.

Neighbourhood Houses have special atmosphere. They are places of welcome, where anyone can come to make new friends, participate in community life and share learnings.

Neighbourhood Houses differ from one another; however they all encourage personal growth, self help and knowledge sharing. They work together in informal and formal partnerships with other community organisations, enriching the quality of life for community members.

George Town Neighbourhood House actively works to redress the structural disadvantage in the George Town Municipality through our philosophy, principles and practices. In order to achieve our purpose, we work to the following objectives:

Support Disadvantaged people and their families

Relieve Suffering and Distress

Respond to Community Imploration

Build Supportive and Resilient Community

Georges River Life Care

Georges River Life Care is a grass roots local community, not for profit, charity organisation that has been in operation in Peakhurst since 2007. Governed by a highly professional, skills-based board, Life care specialises in three main areas:
Family Violence Support

Includes a free legal support clinic and case management for families impacted by Domestic Violence

Emergency Relief

Provides both fresh food and pantryhampers as well as financial assistance and guidance for household bills.

ArtsLife

A positive creative arts program aimed at vulnerable/disadvantaged children, families and adults with disabilities.

Alongside these services, Life Care provides support for families via Parenting programs, Autism Support and Grandparent Support.

All of the services Life Care provides have a unique connection. Life Care has carefully and considerably structured an organisation that goes beyond service provision to meet the needs of the vulnerable people in our community.

Geraldton PCYC

Community and Youth Centre, Specializes in supporting 98% Aboriginal and Torres strait youth in our community through engagment and diversion programs and support.

Geraldton Residential College

Boarding at Geraldton Residential College offers your child the opportunity to pursue a good education while living in a regional area. Along with many other students, your child can access the amenities of a regional centre, the beaches of Geraldton, the convenience of living close to their secondary school and a range of recreational and sporting activities.

Some families may have the opportunity for brothers and sisters to board together while they attend secondary school.

Gethsemane Church Incorporated

Gethsemane is a not-for-profit charity whose mission and purpose is to provide relief to hundreds in our culturally diverse community, regardless of cast, creed, ethnicity, nationality, religion, age and gender, 365 days a year. Our charitable services have been widely recognised throughout the State of Victoria, receiving a Victorian Premier’s Volunteer Championship Award for Leadership in December 2019. We provide food, clothing, furniture, mobile showers, laundry services and improve quality of life. We can’t afford to employ helpers so we work strictly on a voluntary basis. We have about 20 volunteers.

Gippsland & East Gippsland Aboriginal Co-operative

Gippsland & East Gippsland Aboriginal Co-Operative Ltd (GEGAC) has been serving the Aboriginal and wider East Gippsland communities for over 30 years, providing childcare, cultural, education, employment, health, housing & welfare services.

Gladstone Region Aboriginal and Islander Community Controlled Health Service (GRAICCHS)

Gladstone Region Aboriginal and Islander Community Controlled Health Service (GRAICCHS) t/as Nhulundu Health Service is a not for profit started from humble beginnings, and has grown into a multi-faceted health, aged care and community service provider delivering a myriad of services in Gladstone and surrounding areas.
The service delivers health and community services to the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander and wider community in the Gladstone Regional Council area. Everyday we work directly with marginalised, vulnerable and impoverished individuals and see first hand the issues that they face being able to access services and equipment to meet their needs. On occasions we see clients who need mobility equipment essential to their activities of daily living who cannot source funds from anywhere else for same and are forced to use old and outdated equipment.

Gladstone Women's Health

We provide counselling and support services for adults, teenagers and children affected by Domestic and Family Violence. We also provide other support services for women in our community.

Glen Innes Family & Youth Support Service Inc

We work with families, young people and children in the Glen Innes Severn Shire. We provide counselling, case management, advocacy, group work, school readiness, practical assistance, information and referral.

Glenhaven Family Care

Community service organisation based in the North West and North of Tasmania. Supporting children in foster care and children in residential support. Supporting people with a disability in day programs, 1 on 1 and residential support. Supporting families with childcare with needs in parenting, family violence, accommodation concerns, and various families needs and goals. Supporting the Sheffield / Kentish area from Kentish House, a place for families or individuals to access support in food, parenting, playgroups, learning cooking, supporting youth needs and much more.

Global Care - Action Care

Icare is the local initiative of Global Care Australia the Social and Disaster arm of International Network of Churches. We locally help with disaster relief and weekly give away food, clothing and whatever we have. We are not funded and rely entirely on donations and have been operating for 10 years with volunteers,

Global Care - Caboolture

Global Care is an aid outreach and each branch is run out of a local INC church.
Nationally this is flood and drought relief, food hampers, support and care.

Global Care - Citipointe West

We currently feed approximately 350+ families per week with free food and also low-cost groceries with most of our clientele either being vulnerable, a refugee, an asylum seeker or at risk of social inclusion.

Global Care - Faith Family

Global Care is the social justice and disaster relief arm of the International Network of Churches (INC) and we exist to spread kindness and love across Australia, and around the world.
Our Taree branch has a food outlet open to the community and focuses on disaster relief, one on one community service and on the ground assistance.

Gold Coast Child Development Health Service

The Child development service is a community based multidisciplinary team within Community Child Health that specialises in the assessment and management of children, with developmental and behavioural concerns.