Government Funding at a Glance - Having first gone 10 years without
it!
Despite the huge sums it poured and continues to pour into the Victorian
AIDS Council, and large hand-outs to related services, the Victorian
Government limited its financial support to The Australian AIDS Fund
Inc through the Department of Human Services to just $7,333.34 per month
(GST included).
It was to cover our TWO supported accommodation facility services,
our respite camps and our innovative educational programmes and publications,
staff wages etc included!
For the Year 2000, it was broken down as follows:
- Information and Advice $733.34 (or approx $24.50 per day)
- Counselling and Support $2,200 (or approx $73.30 per day)
- Supportive Accommodation $4,400 (or approx $146 per day or just
$15 per bed per day)
What We Did With So Little Government Funding at San Michel Alone
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Counselling/Support
Counselling Sessions - by telephone - 250
Counselling Sessions - face to face - 360
Occasions of Service and Support - 5,354
(Including meals for clients and volunteers, visits to home
and hospitals)
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Education and Training
Courses for staff & vounteers - 60
Total number of participants in above - 335
Committee & other meetings - 30
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Information/Advice
Course Sessions Held - 2
Participants attending - 50
Targetted Education / Outreach / Peer Interactions - 40
Clients contacts / participants - Drop In Service - 70
Requests for Information
Schools - 15
Community groups - 10
Individuals - 10
House Newsletters - 160
School Newsletters - 800 schools - 3,000
Schools AIDS Day Brochures - 2,000
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Support Accommodation
PLWHA / families supported - 100
Occupancy rate of premises - 80%
Visits from health professionals - 250
Transitional Housing - 2
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Then of course there were wage on costs, various insurances, facility
rents, maintenance, utility bills, administration costs, volunteer training
etc.
What We Also Did at Rosehaven
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Counselling / Support
Counselling Sessions - by telephone - 150
Counselling Sessions - face to face - 220
Occasions of Service & Support - 2,230
(including meals for clients & volunteers, visits to home
and hospital)
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Education & Training
Course for staff and volunteers - 45
Total number of participants in above - 185
Committee & other meetings - 38
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Information / Advice
Targetted Education outreach / peer interactions - 45
Clients contacts / participants - Drop In Service - 160
Requests for information
Schools - 10
Community groups - 15
Iindividuals - 8
Number of visitors from schools - 20
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Support Accommodation
PLWHA / families supported - 65
Occupancy rate of premises - 70%
Visits from health professionals - 150
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Then of course there were the wage on costs, various insurances, building
maintenance, utility bills, administration, volunteer training, telephone
accounts, outreach costs, etc.
The combination of hugely disproportionate and lopsided funding of
the Victorian AIDS Council coupled with the realities of inertia, political
clout and bullying; and an absence of material and promised support
from Catholic Social Services Victoria led to these valuable services
being lost. The VAC income is around 3 and a half million dollars a
year, and it's clamouring for more!!!
It'll probably get it.
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