Reaching our Community
Through Services , Projects and Partnerships
Getting Mobile Project
Following the success of the ‘ Santa Calls ’ Campaign ’ - providing clients with mobile phone access - CSF partnered with Better Life Communications and developed a pilot program to provide more prolonged mobile phone use while also teaching digital literacy . CSF engaged RMIT placement student Naomi Sheath to case-manage a small number of clients who had struggled to manage a mobile phone ( both financially and technologically ).
As part of the pre-assessment for the program , clients were assessed to have both a social and educational need for the program . CSF provided a mobile phone and 3 months contract ( free of charge ) while both Naomi and Better Life staff provided practical assistance and learning of things such as data use , phone applications , myGov and use of email .
Avocare - Kitchen Worx
With shrinking access to community meals in Frankston , the healthy takeaway meals that are produced by the Avocare team and supplied to CSF as part of our Emergency Relief have been extremely valuable . With increasing demand for access to food relief , these kinds of partnerships – providing people who can least afford meals with a free and nutritional meal option – are extremely valued .
CSF has forged relationships with other groups that have also been able to assist with cooked meals and the frequency and volume ( around 6,500 meals provided over the past 12 months ) through the Kitchen Worx program has made a big impact .
22 The measure of a community is how it treats its most vulnerable members