Edward Eagar Lodge
Edward Eagar Lodge is a crisis accommodation hostel situated in Bourke Street, Surry Hills, Sydney with 24 hour staffing.
Edward Eagar Lodge has a comprehensive support program.
The Lodge gives hostel accommodation for seventy-six single people ranging in age from 18 years to 80+ years. There are 13 women and 63 men accommodated for up to 3 months. Single rooms provide privacy, dignity, and personal space and secure storage for belongings.
A Day Centre operates five days a week and provides meals, clothing, shower and laundry facilities, counselling, welfare referral, television, lounge and recreational facilities. The centre attracts about 100 people a day, who come from all sorts of backgrounds and accommodation styles including rough sleepers.
Edward Eagar Lodge has a comprehensive support program, which looks at physical, intellectual, emotional and spiritual, vocational and recreational needs. The program operates from Sunday to Friday and incorporates
- A church service
- Recovery groups
- Bible Discovery
- Self-development
- Living skill support groups
- Free counselling
- Recreational activities
- Periodic in house clinics and regular visits by the local mental health team
- Interagency networking
The program is open to all in the community.
As many clients have a dysfunctional lifestyle and experience regular periods of crisis, demands on staff are quite stressful at times. Regular verbal abuse and some physical violence is experienced.
A Community Education Officer encourages clients to detect lifeskill weaknesses that cause difficulties and then, within a supportive relationship, educate them in relevant skills.
A Housing Assessment worker helps clients make suitable choices regarding their housing. Various options that are available within our Homeless Persons Services are presented as well as the services offered by other agencies.
Pastoral Care Assistants lead bible studies, support groups and organise church activities, providing spiritual care and nurture for clients under the guidance of the Minister for Edward Eagar Lodge Community Church.
Find out about other Homeless Persons facilities, or call to find out more about Edward Eagar Lodge. Phone: (02) 9361 0981.
Wesley Mission is a member of RecLink.
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