Neighbourhood house coordination program

Strong data management, organizational, and analytical skills. Ability to organize and prioritize multiple tasks. Ability to work as part of a team and adapt to changing needs, priorities, and timelines.

Flexibility and adaptability with work schedule, which may include occasional evening and weekend commitments. Experience in sales or fundraising is desired but not required. Application Process Email a cover letter, resume, and three professional references to jobs reachtacoma.

Learn more at www. This is a unique, newly created opportunity to undertake work supportive of CAH and Ottawa Food's shared goals of increasing healthy eating especially among marginalized and low income service populations.

Working out of our Food Club and coordinating closely with our Food Access team, stakeholder and guest representatives, and partners at Ottawa Food, the Coordinator will plan and coordinate a robust direct service programming schedule, enhance healthy cooking and nutritional learning among our membership, and extend nutrition focused programming throughout our community.

Programming will include, but is not limited to:. Position: Full time, exempt. Reporting to: Food Access Program Manager. We provide a comprehensive benefits package, including medical, retirement match, and generous PTO.

Position Term: This position is funded through a 1-year grant cycle, from January 3, through December 31, There is potential for positional renewal based on new funding and partnership acquisition. Find out more. With your support, we will help our community flourish. Support the House.

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The group would meet one morning per week and be hosted by a paid facilitator. We would also like to renovate the old toy shed and replace with new cupboards and vinyl flooring and also update some toys. The focus of the new group would be on encouraging play and interaction with children and parents with an emphasis on creating relationships and connections with families. They will upgrade the current uninviting, dysfunctional, unhygienic space used to welcome at risk community members into the Community Centre to one which promotes a comfortable, safe place for vulnerability and support.

The Covid pandemic in raised many concerns around poverty and food security in local families and to address this, they are upgrading their existing community garden, developing it into a larger garden space.

The Community garden will increase access to fresh better-quality foods, help reduce food expenses, and improve food security for those who most need it.

The Threads of Kindness is a community project to make Bedcovers for the victims of domestic violence. It is a practical project as bedding is a basic need for the women and children. The Threads of Kindness will have another layer of warmth for the women as the bedcovers are made from donated fabrics sewn by local people.

This project will recruit 10 women from various cultural backgrounds to undergo family violence awareness training delivered by Northern Legal Community Centre NCLC. On completion of the training the women will work with a film maker to write and feature in a short video. The video will contain key messages in English and other community languages with English subtitles on family violence prevention and disclosure. The video will be officially launched, uploaded to YouTube and distributed through networks, including Hume City Council to be viewed by a wider audience.

Homegrown will see the outside spaces of the Milligan Community Centre developed by a contractor, alongside the community, into welcoming, productive, edible gardens to nurture the community for years to come.

There is a need in the local community for food distribution in the form of food parcels and free bread. The Willagee Community Centre is well known for the support services it offers and provides a safe place for people to Drop in and request food parcels or bread.

The Community Bread freezer will support the community centre to continue to meet this immediate and long term need. By making the freezer more publicly accessible it will offer service users the opportunity to collect the free bread with more discretion.

This grant will support them to provide access to inclusion and participation for more children and families from the local community who are experiencing disadvantage and additional challenges by providing additional staff in our School Holiday Program. Emerging through the COVID pandemic, there has been a strong drive from the Redcliffe community to learn and engage with local solutions to regional, national and global problems.

The 'Sustainable Redcliffe - Equipping for Resilience' project will centre around monthly workshops designed to inspire, generate dialogue and create meaningful local-led change. By focussing on practical education, members of the community will be empowered with the tools required to meet various challenges such as household food insecurity, poor nutrition outcomes and responsible stewardship of place.

This project will strengthen social connections between neighbours and enhance the exchange of skills, knowledge and resources, particularly between those neighbours, businesses and groups who are well resourced and those residents experiencing marginalisation.

This project aims to gain more understanding of attitudes and perceptions of domestic violence in the Deception Bay community and develop a preventative response strategy. Deception Bay Neighbourhood Centre DBNC works from a Community Development framework that underpins the grassroots work to be undertaken that is a bottom up approach with a philosophy of community capacity building to support local solutions for local issues. DBNC will seek to engage in capacity building processes that will lead to sustainable solutions to social issues.

The Food Forest will also provide an ideal space for community pride and social connection. A kitchen cook-up will be offered once a month in the form of a cooked take-away meal to feed the disadvantaged in our community.

Emergency food hampers will also be created and kept on site for those most in need. Using the theme of Activating Garden Spaces, this project aims to:. A multifaceted project to provide skills to disengaged young people and enhance the wellbeing of diverse communities by producing accessible, informative, relevant and entertaining educational material using contemporary tools and methods.

A particular emphasis is on diverse communities, and audience members throughout our community and beyond, will be able to access information in their own language. The project aims to reduce isolation and enhance overall knowledge and wellbeing in our community.

This project will employ a staff member to coordinate the program, oversee the daily operations and deliver meals and food boxes to vulnerable residents ensuring a holistic approach to community participation and health and wellbeing. The program will address social isolation, loneliness, and other social determinants of health to support participants to achieve improvements in their general health and wellbeing. The project will target Indigenous women who are disengaged from employment to enhance their skills and confidence levels and teach them how to build recycled timber furniture.

Utilising the existing facilities, this project will teach participants to use pallets and other used timber to make items such as storage boxes and chests, shelves, tables and seating. Participants will get to keep one item that they make and the remaining items will be given to the local community to people experiencing homelessness, family violence or living on low incomes.

This project will utilise food sourced through the existing partnership with Secondbite supplemented with essential food purchases to make meal packages that will be distributed to community members. This project will also incorporate recipe cards and cooking sessions for community members to empower them to prepare their own healthy meals. It involves partnering with local medical professionals who identify patients whose physical and psychological health and well-being is being affected by non-medical factors such as loneliness and social isolation.