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Building Foundations for Growth and Wellbeing in the Greater Whitsundays- 2024 Queensland State Elections Social Development Priorities
Building Foundations for Growth and Wellbeing in the Greater Whitsundays- 2024 Queensland State Elections Social Development Priorities
Lauren Pattie1 October 2024
Seaforth Health and Community Information Day
Seaforth Health and Community Information Day
GWCOM, Regional voiceLauren Pattie11 July 2023Regional Voice and Connectedness
Isaac Youth Unmet Needs
Isaac Youth Unmet Needs
Regional voiceLauren Pattie6 July 2023Regional Voice and Connectedness
Greater Whitsunday Council of Mayor's Taskforce for Suicide Prevention Project
Greater Whitsunday Council of Mayor's Taskforce for Suicide Prevention Project
GWCOM, partnershipLauren Pattie29 March 2023Collaborative Partnerships
Nebo and Glenden, Health and Community Information Day
Nebo and Glenden, Health and Community Information Day

Greater Whitsunday Communities partnered with Isaac Regional Council to conduct a Community and Health Information Day in Nebo during Women’s Health Week 2022.

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GWCOM, Regional voiceLauren Pattie15 December 2022Regional Voice and Connectedness
Building Capability | Recent work
Building Capability | Recent work

Greater Whitsunday Communities continues to support organisations with their organisational processes across the region through the support of funding received from the Greater Whitsunday Council of Mayors.

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Governance & ManagementLauren Pattie15 December 2022Community Governance and Management Capability
Leading Australian Resilient Communities Program
Leading Australian Resilient Communities Program

Greater Whitsunday Communities has recently been selected as a Group Coach for the Leading Australian Regional Communities (LARC) program, to support program participants from Charters Towers and Townsville achieve their program goals and projects.

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Community LeadershipRebel Nation15 December 2022Community Leadership Skills
Greater Whitsunday Housing Project- Round Table event
Greater Whitsunday Housing Project- Round Table event

Greater Whitsunday Communities, Regional Development Australia and Dalrymple Bay Coal Terminal are partnering to deliver a Housing Project to identify potential solutions to housing needs in the Greater Whitsunday region at both a social and economic level.

 

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Lauren Pattie15 December 2022Collaborative Partnerships
Better Together Housing Project
Better Together Housing Project

Better Together Housing is a programme designed by women over 55 to meet the needs of independent women like themselves. It is tailored to bring women together in a safe and secure way to find shared accommodation.

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Rebel Nation31 December 2021Collaborative Partnerships
Building Community and Economic Legacy in the Greater Whitsunday Region
Building Community and Economic Legacy in the Greater Whitsunday Region

Exploring “Inclusive Growth” through a regional WIM Community of Practice.

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Socio economic practiceLauren Pattie8 December 2021Regional Socio economic practice
Resilience Maturity
Resilience Maturity

Greater Whitsunday Communities is partnering up with CSIA along with 5 other regional Queensland organisations to engage other community services to create tools that will further strengthen our organisational resilience and capacity based on the knowledge and experiences of these organisations.

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Peak Body RepresentationLauren Pattie7 December 2021Community Governance and Management Capacility, Peak Body Representation
Bowen and Collinsville Community Alliance
Bowen and Collinsville Community Alliance

During 2021 GW Communities have assisted in the formation of a new collaborative partnership between two existing local network groups, the Bowen Interagency Network Group (established 1996) and Bowen Collinsville Health Action Group (established 2018), to form one new network- Bowen and Collinsville Community Alliance (BCCA).

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GWCOMLauren Pattie7 December 2021Collaborative Partnerships
Carmila Community Health Day
Carmila Community Health Day

Greater Whitsunday Communities connected with Isaac Regional Council to conduct a Community Health Day in Carmila as part of their Seniors Week activities.

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GWCOM, Regional voiceLauren Pattie7 December 2021Regional Voice and Connectedness
Proserpine, Cannonvale and Airlie Beach -Youth Round Table
Proserpine, Cannonvale and Airlie Beach -Youth Round Table

Following the work Greater Whitsunday Communities completed regarding the youth unmet needs in the Mackay and Isaac Regions, GWCommunities in partnership with Cr Amanda Camm facilitated discussion and input from stakeholders working with young people across the Proserpine, Cannonvale and Airlie Beach communities.

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GWCOMLauren Pattie7 December 2021Regional Voice and Connectedness
Auspice Support
Auspice Support

Greater Whitsunday Communities is committed to providing auspicing support to groups in our community to allow responsible participation of people in the decisions which affect their lives, through sharing our resources, information, skills and technology amongst people of the regional community.

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Governance & ManagementLauren Pattie30 November 2021Community Governance and Management Capability
Greater Whitsunday Council of Mayors
Greater Whitsunday Council of Mayors

This significant partnership enables GWC and the Local Government areas to support all localities across the region.

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Lauren Pattie17 November 2021
COVID-19 Response
COVID-19 Response

GWC strives to move quickly in response to emerging needs of the community. The COVID-19 Taskforce ensured regional voice was maintained with Peak Bodies and allowed for connections between community members and services providers.

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Peak Body RepresentationLauren Pattie28 July 2021Regional Voice and Connectedness, Peak Body Representation
Collaborating for Success
Collaborating for Success

Collaborating for Success was aimed at building the capacity and sustainability of community managed organisations in the Whitsunday, Isaac and Mackay communities, and to help them learn to develop collaborative and sustainable partnerships.

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Lauren Pattie28 July 2021Collaborative Partnerships
Business Continuity – A Peer to Peer Approach
Business Continuity – A Peer to Peer Approach

Business Continuity – A Peer to Peer Approach is an extension of the success of the Peer-to-Peer Networks for Business Continuity and Resilience Planning project that was tested in Mackay.

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Governance & ManagementLauren Pattie1 July 2021Collaborating for success, Community Governance and Management Capability
Collaborating for Sustainable Communities
Collaborating for Sustainable Communities

The Collaborating for Sustainable Communities project has been funded to support the development and testing of a model of community sustainability for regional rural communities through community development practice.

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Lauren Pattie1 July 2021Collaborative Partnerships, Collaborating for success
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