Strengthening Communities

The Strengthening Communities program aims to support individuals, families and communities to build community capacity for addressing issues which impact their lives.

The program prioritises marginalised groups and communities including:

• People living with disabilities or mental illness
• Indigenous communities
• Culturally and linguistically diverse communities
• Young people at risk
• Communities experiencing economic hardship
• Those affected by violence.

The program does this by providing a range of short and medium term community education and developmet programs in consultation with health and community services. Strenghthening Communities holds consultations with consumers of services and service providers, and uses these to shape the development of new projects. The program uses a combination of individual and community -oriented approaches including life skills training, skills for community capacity building and peer education programs.

Our focus is to help existing groups increase their skills, knowledge and confidence, in order to enhance their ongoing capacity to support one another and their community.

Strengthening Communities locations where you can contact someone about the program is shown on the right.

_{Strengthening Communities is provided by Relationships Australia South Australia Health Promotions Services and funded by the South Australian Government Department of Health.}