Current items of
community interest
for people living in the
Frankston area

On 22-23 September 2006, over 140 community representatives came together at the Frankston Arts Centre for the Frankston 2025 Conference to share our views and discover our common aspirations for the future of Frankston City and our entire municipality.

This one-and-a-half day event saw a diverse range of organisations and representatives from our community who came together to begin the development of the community vision for Frankston 2025. Participants considered how the vision is likely to affect planning over the next 20 years and discussed what actions we need to take now. Working together in small groups, and as one large group, we pooled information to discover common ground.

These emerging themes and ideas expressed at the Conference are now being further explored at the Frankston 2025 Community Workshops and through on-site surveys across the municipality during October and November 2006.

The Frankston 2025 Online Community Forum has a topic set up for your comments and suggestions about the content of this report.

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Monash University, Peninsula Health, Alzheimer's Australia and Carer's Respite Centre are conducting local research into the health service needs of the baby boomer (BB) generation (defined as being born between and including 1946 - 1964) as they/we age.

The researchers want local (Frankston & Mornington Peninsula) baby boomer generation people to participate in either a survey or focus groups. The results have the potential to inform service developments for the region, so it's a great opportunity to have your say in services that you may need down the track...

Contact the researcher, Rosalind Lau at Monash University to register your interest or for more information. Email Rosalind.Lau@adm.monash.edu.au or phone her on (03) 9904 4853.

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Annual Frankston Community Appeal (02.11.06)

Each year over 200 local families, suffering extreme financial hardship, receive a traditional Christmas lunch hamper through the Frankston Emergency Relief Providers (FERP) annual Frankston Community Appeal. The Appeal needs cash to buy vouchers for recipients to exchange for perishable meat and dairy goods plus donations of Christmas food including tinned hams, shortbreads or puddings to pack into the hampers.

So, this Christmas, why not reflect on some local good causes and support the volunteers who are helping our most disadvantaged families. Donations can be posted or dropped into 68 Playne Street Frankston. For more details phone 9768 1600.

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Considering volunteering? (02.11.06)

Frankston Community Support and Information Centre is recruiting volunteer interviewers to assist residents contacting us for information, support and advice so if you are considering volunteering your time this is a challenging and worthwhile opportunity to contribute in your neighbourhood. Those thinking of applying need friendly personalities, good interpersonal skills and be non-judgemental when focusing on someone else's needs. You will also need to be accepting of other individual’s values and lifestyles when helping people work through their options.

Our volunteer interviewers get great satisfaction from serving the community, as well as improving their own interpersonal skills. You will have the opportunity to work with people presenting with a wide range of problems and with a bit of time and energy you can make the world of difference to someone less fortunate.

Volunteers selected are required to complete a training course before contact with the public and will receive ongoing training and supervision. Click here for more information or download the Information for Prospective Volunteers booklet and application form.

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