Don’t miss our two Open Days! Something for everyone! We look forward to the launch of our Mental Health Library at the Community Centre. And we are especially happy to have Rees Campbell doing a talk on Tasmanian Edible Plants at our Oldina Community Farm Open Day.

Social Activation Project

The Social Activation Program is an opportunity for four young people to develop a program to enhance their life skills, employment/volunteering opportunities, and increase their mental and physical health by doing two projects of their own choice of benefit both to themselves and to the community. So far they have chosen to and deliver an event during Youth Week 2024 in their community to bring awareness about Youth Mental Health.

The program runs two days a week, and the participants have been busy planning meetings with community members and groups, volunteering at a community garden and taking the produce to the ROC Hub at the Baptist Church, partaking in local activities such as learning to spin fleece and make yarn, attending health and wellbeing workshops, budgeting and cooking for the community at the Monday’s Connections Program held at Live Well Tasmania, also inviting guest speakers from local Youth Services to inform them about who they are and what they do.

Our young team are very engaged in this program, one young man drives an hour to join the group for each session, while another has changed his habit of sleeping in and makes sure he gets on a bus and travels to this program on time for every session. 

The group will also be assisting with a local radio theatre production, Squid Inc. in October, learning about lighting, sound, set design, ticketing and all other aspects which will be needed to set up and run the show.

Healthy and Thriving Neigbourhoods  

This Tasmanian State Government Funded Project had two main deliverables.

The first deliverable was a  consultation with the Wynyard community to identify their needs for a healthy and thriving community. This was conducted in the first half of FY 23/24 and identified social connection as the primary need.

The second deliverable was the implementation of a program of activities to address needs arising from the consultation. With social connection as the core driver, a program of six initiatives  addressing social connection, household resilience, food (in)security, individual confidence building and access to benefits (enabling dis-advantaged groups) was developed. This program is halfway through implementation. Participant self-reported benefits to date are illustrated in the LWT CSL Benefits Treemap below. The size of the boxes represents  the relative number of  responses.