Best Professional Service – Community Open to any not-for-profit organisation that provides a service to the community. These businesses may trade in surplus as long as no person or organisation is paid a dividend. Murray Business Network is proud to sponsor the Best Professional Services – Community award, as it highlights the invaluable contribution, of the nominated organisations within community.
FINALISTS Community Living & Respite Services Community Living & Respite Services (CLRS) is a community organisation founded in 1979 to provide disability support services in the Echuca region. In 2017–18, CLRS supported over 600 people in a range of disability and aged care services with the help of their 216 staff. It aims to provide supported independent living, respite, community access, in home support, supported volunteering and programs for children. CLRS has developed expertise in providing housing for people with disability and built its first home in 1992, and has since purchased two other properties. In 2011, CLRS developed the Opening Doors Project model and completed the Minor Street house and units in 2014, with the Eyre Street Project house and units being finished in 2017. A third Opening Doors Project is under construction and will be completed in late 2019. These three projects will provide homes for 16 people with disability, which has a significant impact on independence and inclusion and provides certainty and peace of mind for families. Over the past two years CLRS has successfully transitioned to the National Disability Insurance Scheme, which has resulted in additional support for people with disability and significant organisational growth.
Echuca Regional Health Dental Clinic The ERH Dental Clinic sits within the Community Services Division of Echuca Regional Health which brings together client services independent of the hospital or Aged Care facilities. The dental team is made up of dentists, dental therapists, oral health therapists, dental assistants, dental clinic co-ordinator and currently 4th year dental students from Melbourne University. Currently up to 40 patients may be seen on a daily basis by senior dentists, graduate dentists, senior dental therapists or the oral health therapists who work on alternate days each week. The ERH Dental Clinic focuses on the most vulnerable groups within the community, from patients with disability, the aged, those with mental health concerns and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander patients. ERH has been extensively involved in the Strengthening Hospitals Responses to Family Violence (SHRFV) initiative, which identifies vulnerable children and are also treated as high priority. The dental team works in conjunction with the ERH Enhanced Maternity Care Program and Social Services team, who both have connections with further groups of vulnerable people within our community. Through these connections, at risk clients are identified and referred to the clinic as required.
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