Our Community Services department provide services that meet a broad range of needs. We aim to promote physical, social, emotional, mental and spiritual wellbeing. Community development is a process where community members come together to take collective action and generate solutions to common problems. Community wellbeing (economic, social, environmental and cultural) often evolves from this type of collective action being taken at a grassroots level.
Groups in the community who are marginalised or disadvantaged, including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, culturally and linguistically diverse (CaLD) families and people with a disability, are supported by government and non-government providers of community services within the Tablelands region.
We are committed to working with community and sporting groups, local committees and organisations to develop solutions and to build capacity of our local community.
Tablelands Interagency Group
The Tablelands Interagency Group (TIG) is a collection of local community service organisations and government agencies working in partnership to strengthen communities, and to address key social issues in our region.
TIG was formed as a result of survey feedback from community and government organisations attending a Regional Round Table event in March 2017. Local and regional agencies considered how our local and regional organisations could work together strategically to engage with external decision-makers, and tackle complex problems in the region.
Several subgroups — including Domestic and Family Violence, Housing and Homelessness, Health, and Communities — operate within TIG, where local agencies have the capacity to lead and collaborate on key issues.