Continuing to Build Capacity for the Peel Region

Here at PCDG we were interested to hear from guest speaker Jenna Palumbo, who gave a great presentation about Social Ventures Australia (SVA), detailing areas that SVA provides support to non-for-profits in Australia. A number of interesting concepts were discussed including: Venture Philanthropy, Impact Investing, and Social Impact Funds. PCDG is planning to host an afternoon workshop/forum in early 2016 and will invite Jenna to come along and speak, but until then, head over to SVA's website to learn more.

We also spoke with Kerrie-Anne Cugley from Child Australia, a leading early years not for profit organisations in Australia, dedicated to improving children’s developmental outcomes. Child Australia have been working hard to develop a Peel Regional Children’s Services Plan to propose a way towards developing a sustainable Education and Care Sector, and have invited the PCDG to be included in their future roundtable discussions. Child Australia will also be hosting a family daycare working group in Waroona towards the end of August, promoting mothers/women back into the workforce.

At our next meeting, PCDG will be hearing from guest speakers regarding domestic violence in the Peel region as we look to better understand and tackle this concerning issue.

Street Net now at the Billy Dower Youth Centre!

Peel Community Development Group (PCDG) auspices Allambee to deliver the Street Net Youth Service that has been operating in the Peel Region since 1999, providing support, information and referral to ‘at risk’ young people.
 
During Januray 2015 Street Net moved to the Billy Dower Youth Centre and is now co-located with other youth services including Peel Youth Medical Services and the School Volunteer Program. Staff have settled well into the new office, and have more opportunities to engage with young people and network with other services.
 
Street Net’s Services for Young People At Risk Progress Report for the July - December 2014 period was recently submitted to the services funding body, the Department of Child Protection and Family Services. During this reporting period over 100 young people received support from Street Net through programs and projects, case management and significant support, workshops and other activities.

PCDG Planning Day 2015

Today we held the Annual PCDG Planning day at the beautiful Redgum Retreat in Dwellingup, facilitated by the amazing Megan Worsdell from WACOSS. The day began reflecting on our achievements of 2014, including our incredibly successful PCDG Conference in February; initiating the Housing Security Project; and representing the community sector in both the Peel Leaders Forum and the Peel Development Commission. With a number of new board members, we are setting our sights forward towards what is looking to be a great year in 2015.

The Housing Security Roundtable set for March 6th will bring together up to 60 representatives from various community organisations, and together will work towards creating an agreed upon solution for housing affordability and homelessness in the Peel Region. 

The PCDG Conference for 2015 will once again be held in the Peel Region, hosting speakers of international standing, and providing great networking opportunities across the community sector.

We are also looking to host a number of community sector workshops, and plan to further develop our online presence through both our new website and social media.

This year the PCDG’s broad aims are to provide ‘bricks and mortar’ solutions for housing security in the Peel Region; to continue our work in building resilience within the community sector; and to strengthen connections within the existing community network, working more closely with a number of advisors. 

Feel free to get in touch if you’d like to share your thoughts :)

New Website Launch!

We are very excited to have finally launched our new website design after many months in development! You’ll see things are looking pretty spiffy around here and it’s all been completely re-coded from the ground up.

A few of our goals with the new website were to make it faster, easier to navigate, and easier for us to manage/update. Most of all, we wanted to help you get to know us better. If you take a gander around the site I think you’ll get a pretty good idea of who we are and what we do. You can also find a wealth of knowledge on our site about various other community organisations from the Peel region.

PCDG have been keeping very busy and are looking forward to hosting a number of events in the near future. We'll also be keeping you posted about other other community events that are happening around town.

If you'd like to become a PCDG member you can now submit your form online here. And to sweeten the deal, memberships are now free! As always, if you have any questions or need help, feel free to contact us.