It is Mental Health Month and headspace Lismore and Tweed teams are emphasising the importance of se ...
More than 160 people have been housed by Tweed Assertive Outreach since the pilot program rolled out ...
Better Chances Forum (BCF) is pleased to share the Embedding trauma informed care and practice proj ...
Launched by NDIS partner, Social Futures, a new initiative called Pathways to Play is helping people ...
Social Futures CEO, Tony Davies, endorses the Royal Commission into Defence and Veteran Suicide and ...
A huge congratulations is in order! Two Social Futures Clubhouse members have been announced winners ...
Brain Injury Awareness Week: 19 – 25 August 2024 Our whole world, the way we perceive ourselves an ...
The problem of homelessness can seem enormous and overwhelming, but there are simple actions we all ...
Social Futures, in partnership with Byron Shire Council, is transforming the old Byron Hospital site ...
Homelessness in Australia is a growing issue that affects not just those without a roof over their h ...
Medicare Mental Health Centre launched on Friday 12 July in Muswellbrook. The service is being deliv ...
The Bridge Alcohol and Other Drugs support hub officially launched in Singleton by Federal Member ...
In the lead up to NAIDOC Week, students at Lismore Public School are learning how First Nations comm ...
Attracting crowds that have swelled from 60 to 200 people, Waves Inclusive Dance Party officially ce ...
16-year-old Broken Hill music sensation, Fiula Havili, is one of 166 finalists across 12 categories ...
Social Futures welcomes the State governments much needed $5.1 billion investment in social housing ...
Social Futures is hosting a FREE Family Fun Day in Goonellabah. Sunday 23 June 2024 From 11am to 2pm ...
Homes NSW has announced today that more people sleeping rough in the Byron area will receive the sup ...
Eight community organisations have been chosen to receive grants of up to $150,000 from the Resilien ...
Social Futures has welcomed 2024 federal budget measures aimed at fighting sticky inflation and cost ...
Inviting Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Family Support and Early Childhood workers in the Nor ...
Free activities for families! Download Activity Pack >> In honour of National Families Week, ...
Learning from lived experience, Social Futures is pleased to welcome our inaugural Lived Experience ...
Bathurst’s Blind Cricket All Stars took on the Social Futures Team to a stunning 10 run victor ...
On Youth Homelessness Matters Day, the not-for-profit organisation Social Futures is calling on Nort ...
The Kick Flips and Tail Whips skateboard and scooter competition will be back in the coastal town of ...
A new youth festival, Thrillfest, will be held in Ballina for the first time during Youth Week, feat ...
Surfs up for Leanne: World Adaptive Surfing Championships Northern Rivers local Leanne Whitehouse jo ...
Standing Strong, based in south-east Queensland, is an Australian-first employment program for women ...
What would life be like, living with brain injury? Our whole world and the way we perceive our lives ...
Late last year, Resilient Kids, a $10 million program, was launched to support the health and well-b ...
Veterans Connect, a unique program that supports Veterans and their families, is celebrating its fir ...
Social Futures, which delivers community supports as diverse as disability inclusion to homelessness ...
Clubhouse Lismore reopens two years after record-breaking floods Clubhouse Lismore – a free, after ...
Exciting News – Social Futures Earns 2024 Great Workplace Accreditation! In recent months, Soc ...
Social Futures welcomes the announcement of the first major Resilient Lands project to be delivered ...
A new service that connects former Australian Defence Force (ADF) members and their families to the ...
Grants of up to $150,000 are available to community and not-for-profit organisations to deliver acti ...
The Central Coast’s free Veterans service, launched in early 2023, has already helped many Veteran ...
Cathy Serventy, General Manager of Homelessness and Housing at Social Futures speaks to Seven News a ...
Central Coast community leaders and media personalities have donned whites for a blind cricket match ...
Clubhouse Broken Hill tech hub: a free after-school technology-learning hub for young people, has o ...
Photovoice: A Disability Pride Photography exhibition, on display in Tweed Heads for the Internation ...
Give some cheer with Social Futures Santa Sacks Tis the season to give, and the not-for-profit organ ...
Grafton experienced the ultimate ‘spin-off’ when the first community and school wheelchair baske ...
A photo exhibit that ingeniously showcases everyday life and a school program presented by a woman t ...
A new program – Resilient Kids – has been launched to support the health and wellbeing of Northe ...
Standing Strong, a pilot employment program for women who have left domestic violence, is celebratin ...
Congratulations to Social Futures’ Tweed Assertive Outreach Team – winners of the 2023 Premi ...
Children in Broken Hill schools will have the chance to try blind cricket and learn why it’s impor ...
Youth on Track is an early intervention service for 10 – 17 year olds which helps youth to identif ...
Children in Dubbo schools had the chance to try wheelchair ball sports and learn about Aboriginal pe ...
Social Futures has opened an office in Taree, a milestone in expanding programs and support into t ...
More than 700 at-risk young people in the Coffs Harbour–Grafton region have been helped by the you ...
Clubhouse Ballina, Lismore, Broken Hill and Bathurst – creative tech-learning spaces – a ...
Social Futures has welcomed a visit to Lismore by NSW Premier Chris Minns and parliamentary colleagu ...
The World Dwarf Games, held in Cologne, Germany in August, has released the medal tally. Social Futu ...
Social Futures workers (and their teddies) ventured into the woods – or rather the Tweed Heads Rec ...
Social Futures is reminding parents during Child Protection Week (September 3 to 9) that they can st ...
Social Futures workers have outlined how to make family support services more culturally appropriate ...
The Social Futures LAC Leadership team attended the 14th Annual National Disability Summit in Melbou ...
Social Futures is working with educators and families to help young children recover from flood-rela ...
This Homelessness Week 2023 (7-13 August), Northern Rivers community service organisations are uniti ...
Flood-affected children have a new friend in Jack, the puppet, who is visiting preschools in the Nor ...
Tech-education experts from Boston, Massachusetts have visited Bathurst in western NSW for the launc ...
The Central Coasts’ Maree Jenner has long been a community advocate for people with disability, bu ...
Workshops and forums will be held in Tweed Heads over the next six months to support Northern Rivers ...
Workers in the Northern Rivers have a chance to try a fun and fast ball sport – on wheels – and ...
Social Futures has presented to the Senate Select Committee on Australia’s Disaster Resilience, ch ...
The not-for-profit organisation Social Futures is asking government to consider investing more resou ...
Social Futures CEO Tony Davies has told the 2023 National Housing and Homelessness Forum that commun ...
Organisers of the Waves Inclusive Dance Parties celebrated the first anniversary of the event by hol ...
Social Futures has welcomed the release of the draft northern rivers resilient lands strategy, and i ...
Regional NSW people with disability are invited to take part in a disability inclusion photography p ...
Released: May 25, 2023 The Northern Rivers Reconstruction Corporation has hit a key milestone – it ...
Social Futures care finder services has arrived in central western New South Wales to support senio ...
From empty lunchboxes to no petrol to drive to the school bus stop, Social Futures CEO Tony Davies d ...
Connecting families with community, culture, and Country Social Futures is honoured to be once again ...
From the Gold Coast to the Central Coast, Social Futures provided fair review to journalists on the ...
Social Futures, has welcomed government measures to address cost of living pressures – and a fundi ...
Social Futures says a new report on renting again shows the urgent need for the Federal Government t ...
Social Futures stands with ACOSS and Homelessness Australia in imploring the Federal Government to h ...
Youth Homelessness Matters Day is on Wednesday, 19 April. Youth Homelessness Matters Day (YHMD) is ...
Calling all boarders and scooter riders – the Kick Flips and Tail Whips skate and scooter competit ...
Social Futures has come out in support of Everyboy’s Home campaign for social housing. Essenti ...
The not-for-profit organisation Social Futures strongly supports the Uluru Statement from the Heart ...
Changes are coming to in-home aged care with the introduction of new reforms in July 2024. A free on ...
A Northern Rivers community workers conference held in Ballina has examined best-practice ways to en ...
Social Futures CEO Tony Davies has met with the NSW Shadow Minister for Housing and Homelessness, Ro ...
On the first anniversary of record flooding in Northern Rivers, Social Futures advocated through med ...
Social Futures was proud to take part in the ‘Well-Being Hub’ at the Lismore Quad to support Nor ...
On the first anniversary of record flooding in Northern Rivers, Social Futures is calling for more s ...
In the lead up to the first anniversary of the Northern Rivers floods, Social Futures has been advoc ...
The Senate Community Affairs References Committee inquiring into the extent of poverty in Australia ...
Social Futures CEO Tony Davies has presented to the NSW Rural and Regional Summit in Sydney, calling ...
In the lead-up to the first anniversary of the Northern Rivers floods, Social Futures continues to c ...
Social Futures now delivers a suicide prevention service on the Mid North Coast to the Bellingen and ...
On International Day of People with Disability (Saturday December 3), a unique exhibition of photos ...
Social Futures CEO Tony Davies says he speaks on behalf of the whole of Social Futures as he sends h ...
Standing Strong, the pilot Gold Coast employment program supporting women impacted by domestic viole ...
On the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women (November 25), the not-for-pr ...
As flooding impacts more New South Wales communities, new research exposed flaws in the regional hou ...
A free program for NSW Central Coast schools is helping children understand the impacts of bullying ...
Social Futures is delivering a new post-disaster recovery support service for individuals and commun ...
Social Futures, which delivers more than 20 community programs, has opened its new office in Lismore ...
Social Futures is joining in the celebrations for National Week of Deaf People – seven days of ...
Social Futures has secured funding from the Commonwealth and NSW Governments’ Anchor Business Supp ...
More than 150 people partied on Friday night at the Central Coast’s second Waves Inclusive Dance, ...
It’s Child Protection Week (September 5-11), and a North Coast team of family support workers say ...
Social Futures has welcomed the release of the NSW flood inquiry but is calling on the Premier to co ...
headspace Lismore and Tweed Heads are running post-flood healing workshops for Northern Rivers secon ...
Social Futures CEO Tony Davies has presented a paper at the 2020 National Homelessness Conference on ...
Children with a disability who need supports can join the National Insurance Disability Scheme (NDIS ...
Students at St Joseph’s Primary School, Alstonville, have had a chance to try wheelchair ball ...
Social Futures has collected almost 400 signatures as part of a Northern Rivers housing petition cal ...
The February and March floods have seen the need for social housing increase in the Northern Rivers, ...
Two men, who’ve become a TikTok sensation, The Brother Boys, by making videos about their unique b ...
Social Futures General Manager LAC Linda Hayes has been interviewed by presenter Shayne Mark on Disa ...
The not-for-profit organisation, Social Futures, now has its own Aboriginal advisory panel and is ca ...
Social Futures is disappointed that the New South Wales government passed on the opportunity to inve ...
The not-for-profit organisation Social Futures is supporting the Northern Rivers abuse prevention ca ...
Thousands of people are still displaced three months after devastating floods struck the Northern Ri ...
Social Futures CEO Tony Davies has told ABC Radio National’s Patricia Karvelas about the chall ...
NBN TV has featured Social Futures’ inclusive workplace campaign, encouraging employers to tak ...
Our CEO Tony Davies, along with our Lismore Local Area Coordinator, Gary Shalala-Hudson, and Connect ...
Social Futures can support Central Coast employers fill job vacancies by showing them how to access ...
NDIS in Western NSW: Social Futures is on a multi-stop tour across Western New South Wales to let pe ...
Blind cricket at Central Coast schools! Delivered by a NSW blind cricket player, Coast schools can v ...
Social Futures has welcomed the NSW Government announcement to extend the highly successful Youth Ju ...
Social Futures Federal Budget Response: CEO Tony Davies says he’s disappointed the Federal Governm ...
Lismore’s new Primary Health Precinct at Southern Cross University has opened, and Social Futures ...
Young people are reminded that mental health support remains available as communities respond to rec ...
On International Women’s Day, Social Futures acknowledges and thanks the women working on the East ...
Clubhouse Ballina has re-opened and is giving young people the chance to connect and socialise with ...
Social Futures is pointing to two new reports on housing and homelessness as evidence that the homel ...
Mental health support for students of all ages is available in the Northern Rivers, as primary and s ...
The date of 26 January 1788 marked the proclamation of British sovereignty over the Eastern seaboard ...
A film festival director, an educator and the president of the Byron Bay Community Association are a ...
To celebrate International Day of People with Disability on Friday, December 3, people with a disabi ...
Social Futures has introduced a COVID-19 Vaccination Policy for employees in New South Wales and Que ...
On White Ribbon Day, Social Futures can announce that its new employment service for women impacted ...
Homeless in Byron Bay: Fintan’s Story Ten years ago, Fintan was a family man with his own home ...
Social Futures has provided emergency accommodation in Byron Bay to more than 100 people who were sl ...
The not-for-profit organisation Social Futures has made its Northern Rivers vaccine van available to ...
This week is Children’s Week in Australia, the annual week focussing attention on the nation’s c ...
Gold Coast women, putting their lives back together after experiencing domestic family violence, can ...
The pandemic has caused huge hurt to regional communities and Australia must find ways to lift peopl ...
Charlene spent more than a decade working as a model on Tokyo’s catwalks but when the pandemi ...
The newly released report from the NSW Regional Housing Taskforce confirms what many community servi ...
Byron Bay community members, who want to help shape a new community hub at the Old Byron Hospital si ...
Thousands of people in regional New South Wales have joined the National Disability Insurance Schem ...
These family support workers are all in lockdown, but that won’t stop them from running and walkin ...
A new service supporting people impacted by suicide has been launched on the Gold Coast. The St ...
During National Homelessness Week in Regional Australia, Social Futures is pleading for the state an ...
A youth coalition working to improve LGBTIQSB acceptance in northern New South Wales and on Gold Coa ...
People living with a disability and their families can share, learn and connect on the unique new we ...
Social Futures is challenging stereotypes about disability in Central Coast and Western NSW schools. ...
Sports Ability is a fun, interactive and free program being delivered to schools in Northern NSW
NDIS participant Brad’s story… When Brad Parker was young, he loved toys. But now 26, it ...
The recent drought-breaking rain across central NSW has brought smiles at long last to the faces of ...
Anita tells her story of living with CRPS, a chronic nerve pain condition. Life took a dramatic turn ...
For parents, Ross and Sandy Bailey the NDIS provided great relief when their 19-year-old son, Chesne ...
Today is White Ribbon Day. It is a day for difficult conversations. A day to talk about domestic and ...
At 67, Broken Hill man Rob Lindsay has been living with intellectual difficulty all his life. “The ...
Social Futures NDIS support, Jack’s story… Pellizzer is in his last year of high school ...
Students affected by the 2019/20 fire season have been getting a little help with their school expen ...
Social Futures supports Elise to move into a home of her own through the Local Area Coordination pro ...
Help from the NDIS opens up a new life for Tasel. For many of us, 2020 may turn out to be a year we� ...
While individuals and households were adjusting to the new reality of social isolation as the COVID- ...
Social Futures NDIS participant, Madeline, who has attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) a ...
Schools are looking toward an inclusive future thanks to primary school inclusion program, ‘Differ ...
NDIS supports Sharon in securing paid employment. From forever volunteering to securing paid employm ...
In 1996, at 29 years of age, Rocky Mileto sustained a severe spinal cord injury from a tackle in a g ...
Social Futures is committed to the continuation of delivering support services throughout COVID-19 i ...
Many people who have family members with disabilities experience the sadness and frustration of bein ...
It has been one year exactly since Lachlan Reardon got his first NDIS plan. Soon to turn 11-years-ol ...
It has been just over a year since Ability Dreaming opened its doors and like any new business, ther ...
Social Futures recently made a submission to the Royal Commission into Aged Care Quality and Safety ...
Marg (58) and her husband Tex (65) are long-time residents of Broken Hill. Marg has NDIS funding and ...