Annual Report2011/2012

Table of contentsA note from our ChAir & Ceo 2

About us 3

ACtivities snApshot 4

Upper Yarra Community House 4

Youth Projects 5

Doxa Youth Foundation 6

NMIT – Work Education Centre 7

Spectrum Migration Resource Centre – Victoria 7

Save the Children 8

Foundation House 9

Cawarra Women’s Refuge Aboriginal Corporation 9

Fitted for Work – Parramatta 10

finAnCiAl ACCounts 11

pArtiCipAting employer groups 12

find out more 12

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A note from our Chair & CEONow in its third year, the LUCRF Community Partnership Trust remains committed to helping those who need it most in the communities in which our members live and work.

We are proud to continue providing strong support to disadvantaged communities across Australia and internationally.

In December 2011, Prime Minister of Australia, The Hon. Julia Gillard MP, launched the Community Partnership Trust in New South Wales and announced support for Foundation House – an alcohol, drug and gambling treatment facility, and Cawarra Women’s Refuge Aboriginal Corporation which provides support for indigenous women and children experiencing domestic violence.

Our contributing employers continued to pledge their support through our Workplace Giving program and regular one-off donations to the Trust. While our Community Partners – now numbering 12 worthy organisations – made a real difference to those they support.

In the coming year, we will continue to grow the Community Partnership Trust with launches in Queensland and South Australia, providing long-term solutions to needy communities. We will also focus on encouraging more employers to get involved and see first hand how easy it is to make a difference, without stretching their resources.

Thank you to our employer organisations, members, Board and staff for being part of our journey to making a real difference over the past year. It’s because of you that we have been able to make such a valuable contribution.

We look forward to continuing our positive impact in 2012/13.

Hon. Monica Gould Greg Sword AM Chair CEO LUCRF Community Partnership Trust LUCRF Super

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About usA first for the Australian superannuation industry, the LUCRF Community Partnership Trust forms part of the LUCRF Super legacy, realising the dream of a fair and secure future through meaningful community engagement.

The LUCRF Community Partnership Trust was established to support projects that build skills, capacity and knowledge within communities, reflecting the core values of LUCRF Super and honouring a unique heritage that focuses on providing dignity for all. The Trust is devoted to providing support for organisations that enrich the lives of disadvantaged children, youth and adult Australians to encourage them to develop skills and attitudes that will assist them throughout their lives.

OUR MISSIONTo identify and support worthy causes that provide services within the community, which reflect LUCRF’s core values and to build relationships – which extend beyond a transactional nature – between LUCRF Super and its contributing employers and members.

OUR FOCUSWe support and engage with communities that deliver services across the following areas:

• Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people

• Arts, culture and heritage

• Community support

• Education and training

• Environment and health

• Women, refugees and youth.

The LUCRF Community Partnership Trust is governed by a Board of Directors which includes well known and respected individuals who have dedicated much of their careers to improving the lives of others.

In 2011/12, the Directors were:

• Hon. Monica Gould – Chair

• Gary Brown

• Hon. John Cain

• Bill Kelty AC

• Peter Lawrence

• Ken Reid

• Julie Warren

• Sr Leone Wittmack RSC.

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Activities snapshot Our ultimate goal is to act as a reliable resource for employers and employees to use when considering community engagement. The projects we chose to support in 2011/12 reflected prominent issues which are broadly experienced across Australia and internationally.

Some of the worthy community-based programs the Trust supported throughout 2011/12 are outlined below.

Upper Yarra CommUnitY HoUseThe Upper Yarra Community House (UYCH) is an advanced community based organisation that provides a range of programs and services.

Registered with the Victorian Registrations and Qualifications Authority as a Registered Training Organisation, UYCH delivers accredited training in a variety of vocational areas to the broader community. These include automotive, hospitality, horticulture, community services, home and community care, and children’s services.

UYCH is based in Yarra Junction, east of Melbourne. The Upper Yarra region is significant for the level of disadvantage experienced by many members of the community, in particular due to social and geographic isolation.

In 2011/12 the Community Partnership Trust provided financial support to the UYCH Community College Young Mums VCAL Program.

The program provides a specialised course for young women with the opportunity for senior secondary school completion, vocational education and training. It also offers mentoring and support for them in their roles as young mothers.

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YoUtH projeCtsEstablished in 1984, Youth Projects provides health, outreach, community, employment, education and training services to individuals experiencing disadvantage, unemployment, homelessness or drug and alcohol related issues.

Youth Projects has approximately 80 staff and uses an innovative outreach model that takes them directly onto Melbourne’s streets where they can make a real difference to the health of Melbourne’s homeless.

Youth Projects’ The Living Room is a unique space that provides the first and only free medical clinic in the Melbourne CBD. The Living Room focuses on a range of medical interventions for clients to support them in improving their lives within the context of a harm minimisation framework.

The medical service provided includes general healthcare, podiatry, mental healthcare and substance abuse assistance. Often clients will present with multiple medical issues and The Living Room is able to take the time needed to provide comprehensive consultations and treatment.

The Community Partnership Trust has supported Youth Projects for more than two years and is currently funding the expansion of their psychiatric care offering to include a Street Psych Program. This initiative takes psychiatric care to those most in need – Melbourne’s homeless population.

The program provides specialist psychiatric help and treatment to rough sleepers who do no readily engage with mental health services. It uses assertive outreach in order to locate and engage with clients to provide them with early and appropriate treatment.

Street Psych seeks to enhance clients’ pathways out of homelessness by:

• Linking rough sleepers into the mental health service system

• Improving coordination and working relationships between mental health and homelessness services

• Providing assessment and secondary consultation information to homeless services and other mental health workers.

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DoXa YoUtH foUnDationDoxa School Bendigo, a key project of Doxa Youth Foundation provides essential programs and services to children and young people (aged between 11 and 15) with social and/or emotional difficulties who are finding it difficult to stay engaged in mainstream schooling.

Typical behaviours exhibited by these students include:

• Easily distracted

• Impulsive

• Aggressive/Violence

• Hyper-vigilant

• Defiance of adults

• Social skills difficulties

• Withdrawal

• Learning or language difficulties.

These young people have not been formally diagnosed with a learning or behavioural difficulty and as a result are not eligible for ancillary education funding. They often come from disadvantaged circumstances that make it very difficult for them to succeed on their own.

There is ample evidence to support the notion that if children disconnect from mainstream education before 16 years of age, they are at risk of becoming offenders.

The LUCRF Community Partnership Trust has provided support to the Doxa School Bendigo’s Afternoon Program – an alternative to mainstream education for children and young people who are at risk of partial or non school attendance.

Doxa’s Afternoon Program model is broken into two parts – a six month long school-based supported learning and development program and a 12 month long transition support program.

The Afternoon Program at Doxa School Bendigo aims to build students’ confidence to encourage them to lead healthy happy lives and contribute positively to society.

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nmit – Work eDUCation CentreNorthern Melbourne Institute of TAFE (NMIT) has a very diverse student base with students from a large range of multi-cultural backgrounds (birthplaces are spread over 19 countries, 18 of which have English as their second language) and diverse learning needs.

The Work Education Centre was established in 1977 to assist people with disabilities to gain access to opportunities for workplace training and employment. The Centre began with an intake of 14 students and has grown to more than 180, with enrolments from the north of Melbourne, as well as students from other metropolitan and regional areas.

The Work Education Centre offers three nationally accredited courses, which include certificates in Hospitality, Theatre Production and Transition Education.

The Community Partnership Trust has funded the development of a transition model for students with disabilities, to provide them with intensive mentoring and support to successfully make the move from education to employment. This necessitates strong community linkages and partnerships. The idea is not only to obtain, but to maintain employment.

Social support services for students and families are also provided, facilitating employment and increasing social inclusion, to maximise community participation.

speCtrUm migration resoUrCe Centre - ViCtoriaSpectrum Migration Resource Centre (MRC) operates across Melbourne’s north-west region, offering a hub-style service to support migrants and refugees in reaching their full potential in Australia. Spectrum MRC was established in 1980 to work with migrants and refugees to help them successfully settle and participate in all aspects of community life.

The support provided by the Community Partnership Trust has funded the Spectrum Homework Support Program, aimed at improving educational and life outcomes for students from refugee and migrant backgrounds, and to assist them in their settlement and integration into Australian society. The project helps disadvantaged students from newly arrived backgrounds, including those from African, Middle Eastern, Afghan and Burmese communities, based predominantly in the Darebin local government area.

The Homework Support Program helps to increase the ability of young people from refugee and migrant backgrounds to undertake school studies and enhance numeracy and literacy skills. It also strengthens their parents’ ability to engage with the school system/community and support their child’s education, which helps to reduce social isolation.

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saVe tHe CHilDrenThis year the Community Partnership Trust responded to an urgent call for help to assist Save the Children with its Horn of Africa Famine Appeal.

East Africa – an area encompassing Ethiopia, Kenya and Somalia – is living through its worst drought in 60 years and more than 6 million children face starvation.

Babies and children present at the Save the Children-supported health clinic in Kenya, suffering malnutrition, dehydration and with medical complications such as pneumonia.

Not only is there a shortage of food and clean drinking water in the area, but there is a lack of understanding and knowledge among locals in relation to diet and nutrition, particularly when it comes to infants.

Save the Children has provided local families with the support of nutritionists and community mobilisers. These specialists visit at-risk families daily to educate them about the importance of good nutrition, focusing on the need for mothers to exclusively breastfeed their young babies.

In addition to providing basic healthcare to those in the region, Save the Children continues to provide food, clean drinking water and unconditional cash grants to those in need.

The Community Partnership Trust contributed $50,000 to the cause, an amount which was matched dollar for dollar by a Federal Government scheme on offer at the time.

To date, Save the Children has helped over one million East Africans, providing life-saving food, water and medical support to families severely affected by the ongoing drought.

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foUnDation HoUseFoundation House is an alcohol, drug and gambling treatment facility run by the Construction Industry Drug and Alcohol Foundation.

The Foundation is a non-profit organisation established in 1994 to raise funds to provide adequate, effective and readily accessible alcohol, drug and gambling treatment services and support to construction industry personnel and their family members, as well as the general public.

Initially a male only live-in rehab program with a drug and alcohol focus, the program was expanded in 2010 to offer services to gamblers and females.

The Community Partnership Trust is funding the ongoing employment of a full-time Gambling Counsellor at the centre allowing it to provide an intensive inpatient gambling program, outpatient counselling, family support, aftercare, and relapse prevention groups.

As a result of this funding, Foundation House has been able to admit gambling only clients and provide after hours services to gamblers who are unable to attend the live-in rehabilitation program.

CaWarra Women’s refUge aboriginal CorporationCawarra Women’s Refuge is a unique facility which was formed over 30 years ago to provide support for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women and children who are escaping or experiencing domestic violence.

Cawarra provides culturally safe, confidential accommodation and assistance programs designed to empower clients and help them get back to living a safe and normal life.

The support of the Community Partnership Trust has allowed Cawarra to recruit an additional Aboriginal Family Support Worker and a part-time visiting Psychologist to continue its Family and Child Health Worker Program. This support expands Cawarra’s capacity to deliver its broad range of support services to those who are most vulnerable. This includes adequate crisis care, case management services, disability services, pregnancy support and specialist counselling services.

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Cawarra Women’s refugeaboriginal Corporation

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fitteD for Work – parramattaFitted for Work (FFW) is an innovative not-for-profit organisation. Established in 2005, their mission is to help women get and keep work. This is done through the provision of interview appropriate clothing, personal dressing services, various transition to work and mentoring programs. All services are provided free of charge and since 2005 FFW has helped over 6,500 women.

The LUCRF Community Partnership Trust has provided FFW Parramatta with support to deliver a Life Skills program. The program is a positive intervention designed to support those women experiencing disadvantage and multiple barriers to employment, in developing the necessary skills to undertake employment and/or further training opportunities.

The program is unique in that as well as providing participants with practical skills; it places a very large emphasis on developing each woman’s confidence and self-esteem, in a caring and supportive environment.

The Life Skills program assists participants to develop eight key competencies to form an employability skills framework, and includes studies in:

• Personal awareness

• Communication and teamwork

• Health and wellbeing

• Coping with stress and anger

• Navigating the workplace

• Money and time management

• Motivation and goal setting.

In addition, each participant has access to the FFW Personal Dressing Service where they will be outfitted in interview appropriate clothing and undergo intensive interview training.

The Community Partnership Trust continues to identify additional worthy causes in local communities where our members work and live.

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Financial accounts

30 June 2012 From 16 August 2010

to 30 June 2011

$ $

REVENUEInterest received 388 0

Gifts/contributions received 146,798 53,319

Total income 147,186 53,319

EXPENSESBank charges 343 43

Interest paid 8 0

Grants 111,000 52,000

Membership fees 0 1,271

Total expenses 111,351 53,314

OPERATING PROFIT 35,835 5

Increase/decrease in net assets of the Trust –35,835 –5

Net profit/loss for the year 0 0

Other comprehensive income 0 0

Total comprehensive income 0 0

30 June 2012 From 16 August 2010

to 30 June 2011

$ $

CURRENT ASSETSCash at bank 35,940 5

Cash on hand 0 100

Total assets 35,940 105

LIABILITIESTotal liabilities 0 0

NET ASSETS 35,840 5

Settled sum 100 100

Total 35,940 105

Statement of Comprehensive Income For the year ended 30 June 2012

Balance Sheet As at 30 June 2012

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Participating employer groupsPartnering with the Community Partnership Trust is an easy and rewarding way to support important community-based programs.

There are several ways that organisations and individuals can get involved with the Community Partnership Trust, its Community Partners and the important work they do.

The range of potential benefits from doing so, include:

• Enabling time-poor employers to support community initiatives

• Contributing to raise staff morale and increase loyalty, which in turn improves productivity

• Offering a unique opportunity to engage with your employees’ workplace culture

• Promoting sustainable and positive communities

• Strengthening employer relations within the community

• Building meaningful networks.

The Trust accepts contributions via one-off donations, ongoing regular contributions and Workplace Giving programs. All contributions over $2 are tax deductible.

We sincerely thank the following Employers who have participated in the Community Partnership Trust in 2011/12:

• All Staff

• National Union of Workers – New South Wales

• OnePath

• PFD Food Services.

Find out moreTo find out more about the LUCRF Community Partnership Trust, and how you and your organisation can get involved, call 1300 130 780, email info@lucrfcpt.org.au or simply provide us with your contact details via our website at www.lucrfcpt.org.au and we will be in touch.

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LUCRF Community Partnership TrustPO Box 211, North Melbourne VIC 3051

Phone: 1300 130 780 Email: info@lucrfcpt.org.au

www.lucrfcpt.org.au ABN: 62 514 668 110