Wesley Mission Vision: To be at the heart of our community, where everyone has the opportunity to live a whole and productive life.
The Wesley Community Services group Is made up of seven service areas, each different in the approaches they take to assist people.
Services include:
Family and Youth Services:
Family and Youth Services focus on working in partnership with families to prevent family breakdown including a diverse range of early intervention services, such as counselling, family work, group work, community education, information and advocacy.
The range of services differs from one centre to another, reflecting the needs of the local communities. Our aim is to provide innovative services that seize local community opportunities to enhance the quality of life of children, young people and their families.
Family and youth services are usually closely identified with a specific community and are developed in collaboration with other services and community groups.
Dalmar Out of Home Care Services:
Out of Home Care is provided to children and young people who are unable to live with their families for a variety of reasons such as family breakdown, illness, or exposure to abuse and neglect. The programs aim to ensure that children have a safe and nurturing living environment. Wherever possible restoration of children to their birth families is supported, and where this cannot happen, Out-of-Home-Care provides placements with caring foster families or, for older children and young people, in small residential settings managed by trained staff.
The program actively supports contact with the birth family where this is part of the child’s case plan.
Supported Accommodation Services:
Wesley Dalmar Accommodation Services provides safe and secure, short to medium-term accommodation in conjunction with support services to families and young people in crisis to assist them to achieve success and to live independently.
Two independent living programs for young people aged 16 to 22 years provide a structured program, including a series of steps toward personal independence based on semi-supported accommodation, training, mentoring, exit planning and aftercare.
The Short Term Unit program provides accommodation to homeless families through four homes. This is one of the few programs that can accommodate men and large families. The program provides accommodation in the Carlingford & Ashcroft areas.
Disability Services:
Wesley Disability Support Services (WDSS) continues to ensure that people with a disability are valued and accepted. WDSS help their service users develop skills and maintain an active role in the community.
WDSS is funded by NSW Department of Ageing, Disability and Homecare and provides a range of services to meet the needs of people with a disability.
LifeForce Suicide Prevention:
LifeForce delivers an educational suicide prevention program in the form of community seminars, public and workplace workshops and other community development services throughout NSW and interstate. Based at Carlingford in Sydney, LifeForce provides services to communities throughout NSW, predominately in rural and remote areas.
LifeForce’s ability to continue to educate and promote suicide awareness has been greatly enhanced by the LifeForce advisory board & committed public personalities. During 2004, Lifeforce was consulted by the Federal Government on community capacity-building strategies.
