Community building NATIONAL NETWORk
A NATIONAL NETwork of community
builders
STREET BY STREET
In every street and neighbourhood, there is an
isolated elderly person, and a person living with a disability, and a new settler wanting to
communicate and develop connections with
locals.
And in every
street and neighbourhood, there are people wanting to make
connections with others and offer support in simple and
practical ways.
Street
by Street
is
a
national neighbourhood support program that links people who live in the same
street or nearby.
It aims to foster the development of
caring
communities by linking up people who live in the same street
or nearby. The
focus is on practical helping tasks which can relieve
isolation and make the
difference between someone remaining in their own home or
needing to move
into more supportive accommodation, such as:
-
Taking the bin in
and out
-
Hanging washing
-
Getting a few items
from the shops
-
Getting mail from
the letter box
-
Looking after pets during absences or illness
-
Practising language
skills
Training Workshop
A
Training Workshop
for leaders and participants in the Street by Street program will
be held on Tuesday 21 February 2012 in Melbourne.
CLICK HERE for
more information.
Information Kit
We would like to hear from individuals and organisations around the country interested in
participating in rolling out Street by Street on a national scale.
CLICK HERE
for an
Information for Participants Kit.
Community centres, service clubs, neighbourhood
houses, community health centres, scout and guide groups, and voluntary
associations are some of the organisations that we hope will participate in
auspicing a local Street by Street initiative.
Where two or more residents in a street are known
to be in need of regular practical support from neighbours, an auspicing group
will distribute a flyer in that street, inviting neighbours who wish to lend a
hand to make contact, attend an information session, and begin connecting up.
National Steering Group
Expressions of Interest are invited for additional participants on the Street
by Street National Steering Group.
The Steering Group will coordinate the development of Street by Street
around Australia. If you would like to play an active role as a member of the
National Steering Group, express your interest by submitting this online
form.
CLICK HERE
to express your interest.
Neighbours not volunteers
Participants in a Street by Street link-up are not
volunteers, they are people in a voluntary relationship with their neighbours,
as neighbours.
The aim of Street by Street is to recover the practice, and art, of
neighbourliness. We don’t want to surround this activity with excessive rules
and regulations, nor do we want to subject participants to the usual procedures
that volunteers in formal organizations are subject to.
Street by Street is a very simple program that aims to re-kindle links between
neighbours that might once have formed spontaneously but which, in our day and
age, require a little facilitation. It is our intention to run Street by
Street as a simple informal network, operating on a very large scale across
Australia.
Training Workshop
A
Training Workshop
for leaders and participants in the Street by Street program will
be held on Tuesday 21 February 2012 in Melbourne.
The workshop will run from 10am to 3pm.
CLICK HERE
to see the Program for the workshop.
CLICK HERE
to register.
The venue is the Angliss Conference Centre, Melbourne,
located in the CBD, on the corner of LaTrobe and King Streets, on
the fifth floor.
It is close to train and tram
services. Flagstaff railway station is one block away in LaTrobe St, and
Southern Cross station is three blocks away in Spencer St. Trams 23, 24, 30, 34,
and City Circle run along LaTrobe Street.
There are numerous
accommodation options close by, to suit all budgets.
Participate in
Street to Street
Register your interest in participating by using the
form below.
Further information:
Vern Hughes
0425 722 890
network@civilsociety.org.au
