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Community Transport Program
Community Transport programs are primarily funded and supported by the Home and Community Care
Program (HACC) under its mandate to provide social support. For the purposes of Community Transport “social support " is defined as the involvement of the volunteer in caring for clients.
Thus social support is characterised by the companionship and the assistance provided to a client in the course of the volunteers driving duties. This may include conversation, some physical support in getting in and out of a vehicle, carrying items, guiding a client to appointments and helping to negotiate on the client’s behalf with other service providers.
Schemes are also supported by Health Services, Local Government and local communities as one strategy for maintaining the general health and well being of the community
Goulburn Valley National Council of Women , in front of the new car in Shepparton that they helped to get through the support from the City of Greater Shepparton. For more information
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