Community Development

COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT AT PORT PHILLIP COMMUNITY GROUP

PPCG provide a range of programs focused on community building, and creating links between all members of our communities. We have a particular focus on affordable housing and services to rooming house resident.

Tenant Participation and Community Facilities 

This program is focused on the Community Facilities located in 21 public housing properties across Stonnington, Port Phillip, Bayside Councils.

These Community Facilities are located on the following public housing estates:

• 1/12 Airlie St, Elsternwick
• 21 Bangs St, Prahran
• 2 Crews St, Windsor
• 17 The Esplanade
• 114 Inkerman St, St Kilda
• 150 Inkerman St, St Kilda
• 25 King St, Prahran
• 27 King St, Prahran
• 2 Simmons St, South Yarra
• 49 Union St, Windsor
• 1230 Centre Rd, Clayton
• 43-47 Chapel Rd, Moorabbin
• 1 Dunkley Ave, Highett
• 12 Keith St, Hampton
• 200 Dorcas St, Sth Melbourne
• 332 Park St, Sth Melbourne
• 5/40 Raglan St, Port Melbourne
• 5/44 Raglan St, Port Melbourne
• 2 Tom Hills Court, Port Melbourne
• 150 Victoria Ave, Albert Park
• 180 Mills St, Middle Park

The aim of the program is to manage these community spaces in a way that promotes social inclusion and community development opportunities for public housing tenants and the broader community. The two Community Development Workers currently employed to run this program achieve this goal through linking with and supporting public housing tenants, local volunteers, local organisations and other service providers to achieve fair and accessible usage of these Community Facilities.

This may be through:

1. sourcing, writing submissions for, and auspicing grants for programs to be run in the Community Facilities
2. identifying and responding to requests to establish new tenant participation initiatives
3. providing the use of the Community Facilities at very low cost as venues for existing and expanding programs

There is still plenty of availability for the use of these fantastic community spaces and the Port Phillip Community Group is always open to discussions regarding new community-oriented initiatives that will support social inclusion on public housing estates and in the local community.

Please contact us at:

Josh Morshead - (03) 8598 6666 / 0437 006 420 / josh@ppcg.org.au

or

Tullia Gillary – (03) 8598 6615 / 0423 400 544 / tullia@ppcg.org.au

Neighbourhoods Program

The Neighbourhoods Program is funded by the City of Port Phillip under a 3 year Service Agreement. 

The program aims:

• Facilitate the community of people in tenuous or temporary housing situations to develop strategies to increase control over their lives.
• To increase access to social and economic capital and promote opportunities for social inclusion
• To respond creatively to emerging needs of the client group
• To respond to de-institutionalisation and growing individualism in the community by fostering a culture of acceptance, valuing diversity

Program Objectives

• To encourage and work towards the client group increasing control over and improving physical and mental health, social well-being, housing security and access to community and economic resources.
• Foster place based community cohesion for the target population within residential and local community settings.
• To improve access to community resources, income support and employment opportunities  for the target population.
• To promote and coordinate  stakeholders in the community and rooming house sectors to work collaboratively  towards providing secure housing, information sharing, social inclusion and service access
• To work towards building a community in Port Phillip that values and includes all residents regardless of their level of wealth,  ability or  cultural heritage.

ADVOCACY PROGRAMS

ALMA ROAD COMMUNITY HOUSE