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Group Description

Our group meets for social connection and a mutual love of music. We are run by the community for the community. The group was started as a way to meet up once a month to sing and play music. Aphasia can significantly impact our speaking, but we can still sing familiar songs. Jaimi and Jeff lead the group on the keyboard and singing. However, the group is a collaborative experience, and the members pick the songs and express the easiest way to learn them. The songs are broken down line by line or humming first. By the end of each session, we sing the song together.

Who can Join

People with aphasia and open to people who have experienced a TBI, stroke or neurological degenerative disease that impacts communication. As well as carers, partners or friends.

Contact hours

First Saturday of each month; 10 am -11am

Where we meet

The Well Community Centre, 58 Highland Way

Town/Suburb

Upper Coomera

Services

Music and singing lesson.

Area serviced

Gold Coast

Phone contact

Jaimi - 0401301305

Group Focus

A social experience for people with aphasia to sing and enjoy music.

More Info

This is a free service.

Group Name

I Will Sing - Aphasia Singing Group

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Group Description

Stepping Stone provides a support program for people living with mental illness, rather than a medical or a treatment program. We offer a broad spectrum of services as we believe that a holistic approach is required to fully assist people with a mental illness.

Who can Join

Anyone 18 and over

Contact hours

08:30 – 04:30

Where we meet

88 Delaware Street

Town/Suburb

Chermside

Services

Area serviced

Brisbane North

Phone contact

07 3847 1058

Group Focus

Support program for people living with mental illness, rather than a medical or a treatment program.

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Group Name

Stepping Stone North - Chermside

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Group Description

Offering friendship and support for women of all backgrounds. Meet, sew, create, exercise, enjoy! Free light lunch provided.

Who can Join

Women

Contact hours

11:00 am - 1 pm

Where we meet

Hub Community Projects Inala, 79 Poinsettia Street

Town/Suburb

Inala

Services

Head to HUB Community Projects' website for more details

Area serviced

Brisbane South & Logan

Phone contact

(07) 3372 3770

Group Focus

Friendship, recreation and time together as women

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Group Name

Wonderful Women's Group

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Group Description

This group is for anyone who is supporting a person with dementia. We meet monthly, and every second month, we have a guest speaker who can offer different ways of practical support or information relevant to dementia. On the alternate month, we have an informal coffee morning where people are welcome to chat in a "safe space" or have a bit of social respite over a cuppa. We are only a very recently formed group with a small number of attendees, most of whom have a loved one in our care or are cared for by our staff in the community.

Who can Join

Anyone who is touched by dementia - whether they are supporting a partner, family member or friend with dementia. We also welcome the people they are supporting.

Contact hours

Every second Tuesday of the month.

Where we meet

Killarney Memorial (Training Room), 6 Cedar Street.

Town/Suburb

Killarney

Services

We can offer support and practical advice and strategies as a support group. We can also provide links to other services and resources within our community. As a facility, we offer residential care (including dementia care), home and community care (including dementia care), and health care through our medical centre.

Area serviced

Darling Downs West Moreton

Phone contact

Group Focus

Providing support to people caring for those with dementia in our community.

More Info

This service is FREE.

Group Name

Killarney Memorial Dementia Support Group

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Group Description

People impacted by dementia meet with other residents to sing, connect and inspire one another and the community. We practise familiar and new songs with an experienced accompanist and choir leader and enjoy conversation over afternoon tea. We occasionally perform for community groups.

Who can Join

Anyone can join—no experience is needed. About 1/3 of members live with dementia, 1/3 are care partners or family, and 1/3 are other community members.

Contact hours

1:30 - 3:00p.m. 1st & 3rd [+ some 5th] Thursdays of each month during school term.

Where we meet

Varsity Lakes Community Resource Centre, 20 Mattocks Road

Town/Suburb

Varsity Lakes

Services

Choral singing with choir leader, piano accompaniment, percussion, some choreography, lyrics, afternoon tea, community networking, dementia awareness and support.

Area serviced

Gold Coast

Phone contact

Group Focus

We focus on creating a dementia-friendly community choir for people with dementia and their care partners to share the joy and benefits of singing together.

More Info

$5 per person towards afternoon tea per meeting. We are under the auspice of Varsity Lakes Community Resource Centre.

Group Name

Inspire! Dementia-Friendly Choir

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Group Description

Dementia Connection Australia (DCA) is a Facebook group bringing people together to promote awareness of dementia, access information, and discuss signs and symptoms to encourage others to seek a diagnosis.

Who can Join

People living with dementia and dementia caregivers; anyone

Contact hours

Where we meet

Online

Town/Suburb

Services

An inclusive community for people living with Dementia, dementia caregivers, and people who care about Dementia care.

Area serviced

Wide Bay

Phone contact

Group Focus

Online community bringing people together to promote awareness of dementia, access information, and discuss signs and symptoms to encourage others to seek a diagnosis.

More Info

This is a FREE online community. DCA encourages you to learn as much as you can about dementia. Why? Because you have people living with dementia in your community. You can create a safe and inclusive environment for them. *Dementia Connection Australia is an inclusive group. You can get involved in promoting Dementia awareness and care by following: www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100083360256593

Group Name

Dementia Connection Australia

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Group Description

Provides emergency relief & assistance to anyone in need, including people suffering the effects of domestic violence.

Who can Join

Anyone requiring emergency relief - phone for details.

Contact hours

Food Parcels: Mon to Thurs 9:30am - 3:30pm, Fri 9:30am - 1:30pm (delivery can be arranged on Wed)

Where we meet

31 Station Road

Town/Suburb

Logan Central

Services

Supplying up to 200 food parcels per week, there is also weekly soup kitchens operating Monday nights at 5:30pm, every second Tuesday night at 5:30pm, Saturday morning Breakfast at 8:30am & Saturday nights at 4:30pm.

Area serviced

Brisbane South & Logan

Phone contact

0412 163 723

Group Focus

Provides emergency relief & assistance to anyone in need, including people suffering the effects of domestic violence.

More Info

There is an Op Shop on site & the centre also offers training in Certificate I Conservation & Land Management (CALM) and Certificate I Hospitality.

Group Name

ADRA Community Care Centre - Logan Central

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Group Description

To reach out to and provide meals for those in need.

Who can Join

People in need of food support.

Contact hours

Phone for details of times & dates of meal support.

Where we meet

Shop 6/10 Aminya St (Cnr Arura St)

Town/Suburb

Mansfield

Services

We provide meals, drinks, & blankets in winter. Our goal is to help turn people’s lives around for the better.

Area serviced

Brisbane South & Logan

Phone contact

(07) 3349 4555

Group Focus

To provide food support & encouragement to those in need.

More Info

Many of the lost & hurting people needing help are out of resources & out of options. They come from a life of poverty, emotional neglect, physical abuse, sexual exploitation or worse.

Group Name

Access Street Vans - Mansfield

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Group Description

Provides a welcoming environment for relaxing, replenishing & reconnecting.

Who can Join

Help support for people experiencing homelessness.

Contact hours

Daily, 8:30am - 2:00pm. Phone for details of support offered. (196 and 199 BCC buses go right past our door or get off at the Fortitude Valley train station and head up Brunswick Street)

Where we meet

505 Brunswick Street

Town/Suburb

Fortitude Valley

Services

A selection of affordable meals as well as tea, snacks & hearty soup & porridge free of charge.

Area serviced

Brisbane North

Phone contact

(07) 3254 1144

Group Focus

Breaking the cycle of homelessness.

More Info

Emergency Relief Assistance (food parcels, vouchers, travel help), WI-FI, hot showers, free laundry, day time bag storage, clean day bed, locked & a range of support services including social workers, medical (including nurse, doctor), legal advisers & social activities.

Group Name

3rd Space Café, Brisbane - Fortitude Valley

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Group Description

Providing specialized care & advocacy for those experiencing abortion grief & pregnancy crisis.

Who can Join

People traumatized by abortion, their families, professionals.

Contact hours

Phone for Qld contact details.

Where we meet

Town/Suburb

Services

Counselling; Information; Referrals: Advocacy; Specialized care.

Area serviced

Far North Qld, North Qld, Western Qld, Central Qld, Wide Bay, Sunshine Coast, Darling Downs West Moreton, Brisbane North, Brisbane South & Logan, Gold Coast

Phone contact

1300 139 313 National Help Line

Group Focus

To address the issue of abortion trauma in a manner that recognizes the seriousness & the magnitude of the problem.

More Info

Abortion trauma is a serious mental health issue that health professionals are routinely dealing with, but for reasons both political & related to the trauma itself, it is not being recognised.

Group Name

Abortion Grief Australia Inc.