Home and Community Care Program (HACC) - Volunteer Coordination Service

What is HACC Volunteer Coordination Service?

• Is to provide trained volunteers to regularly visit frail elderly people at their home, and people have been newly discharged from PAG groups for hospitals and nursing homes admission.
• Is to run a Carer Support Group for carers living in the City of Brimbank
• Is to provides volunteers weekly supporting the organisation’s PAG groups and Senior citizen groups

Services target to:

• Vietnamese frail elderly and disable people
• People exited PAG due to too frail
• Current PAG clients who are isolated and cannot attend PAG groups due to their critical health condition
• PAG clients attending the organisation’s Senior citizen groups
• People are in the PAG waitlist
• Their carers

For further information please contact Volunteer Coordinator on 9428 9078 or email: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Social Support - Group (known as Planned Activity Group, or PAG) & Social Support – Individual Program

Our services, which are components of the CHSP - HACC programs, provide social support and engagement to Vietnamese Victorians who are either frail aged or with a disability. The program aims to enhance the participants’ ability to live independently in their own home and in the community as long as possible. We provide two types of services: Social Support - Group and Social Support - Individual.

1. Social Support – Group: Provides weekly social group gatherings with other clients. Group activities focus on participants’ needs and aspirations in order to enable them to improve their health and wellbeing. The needs may be physical, emotional, intellectual, recreational, cultural, linguistic and spiritual.

Activities include:  

• Members meeting and chatting with each other,
• Doing gentle exercises, Tai Chi, …
• Enjoying traditional Vietnamese lunch
• Reading, singing, dancing, listening to music, playing games, doing artwork, ...
• Discussing personal, family, health, social, cultural issues
• Attending community forums/festivals…
• Going on Day excursions.
• Organising in- house events.
• Celebrating members' birthdays.
• Visiting churches and temples.

Currently, we have 7 groups in 4 municipal councils: Yarra, Brimbank, Maribyrnong and Whittlesea. The locations of our PAG groups are:

• Thomastown: 52 Mains St., on Monday
• Sunshine: 82 Phoenix St., on Monday
• Deer Park: 50 Station Rd, on Monday
• Lalor: 47A French St., on Tuesday
• Footscray: Cnr of Essex St. and Market St., on Tuesday.
• St Albans: 69 Grantham Pde., on Wednesday
• Richmond: 30-32 Lennox St., on Thursday
• Maidstone: 21 Yardley St., on Friday

2. Social Support – Individual: Provides social visits by staff or volunteers to frail and isolated elderly who hardly go out due to their poor health, take them out for appointments and shopping and do bill payment. It also provides telephone, web-based monitoring services to connect older people to community, and helps them with letter writing and form-filling, as needed.

• Coordinator: Nam Nguyen
• Coordinator Assistant: Ngat Ho
• Core Staff: Cam-Sau Le, Minh Bui, Nhan Huynh, Ngat Ho, Kieu Nguyen, Thuy Pham, Tien Pham, Le Nguyen
• Care Workers: Xuan Doan, Khanh Tran, Tien Lac, Tien Dang, Thuong Nguyen, Lan Vu
• And 20 volunteers
• For further information please contact Program Coordinator on (03) 94289078 or email: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

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Sports and Recreation

Throughout the year, the badminton program has continued to provide opportunities for Vietnamese and other CALD background people to enjoy the sport. The Badminton Project called “Badminton Asian New Arrivals” was conducted in partnership with Badminton Victoria and AVWA Youth Project. The project offered staffing as well as free equipment like nets, racquets and shuttlecocks. The project also provides free training in badminton and free court use, with the aim to promote badminton in Victoria.

The Badminton project has four training groups: two groups from Gilmore Girls College and two new groups from St Albans Meadows Primary School.

The 2011 Gia Long Soccer Tournament comprised 8 teams of Vietnamese and CALD background participants, divided into two categories: four Senior over 35 and four Under 35 years of age. It aims to promote a healthy life style through sports & recreational activities in the community with the support from Western River FC and Burwood VN teams. The Grand Final, ending with BBQ and cup presentation was held at Henry Turner Reserve, Footscray on Sunday November 6th 2011.

Finally, my thanks go to Badminton Victoria, AVWA Youth Project, AVWA Staff and Board of Directors and, last but not least, our team of dedicated volunteers for their assistance and commitment in ensuring the success of the program.

Coordinator: Jimmy Hung Ly

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Vũ Cầu Cuối Tuần

Nhằm mục đích phát triển phong trào Vũ cầu cho mọi giới trong cộng đồng người Việt tại Victoria. Hội Phụ Nữ Việt Úc kết hợp với Badminton Victoira đã tổ chức các buổi Vũ cầu ở những địa điểm sau:

Gilmore Girls College – Gym:

298 Barkly St, Footscray 3011

• Thứ Sáu: 19:30 – 21:30 Vũ cầu (Badminton) nam/ nữ 8+
• Chủ Nhật: 10:00 – 12:00 Vũ cầu (Badminton) nam/ nữ 8+

St Albans Meadow Primary School – Gym:

Laurel Street, St Albans 3021

• Chủ Nhật: 16:30 – 18:30 Vũ cầu (Badminton) nam/ nữ 8+

Mọi chi tiết, xin liên lạc anh Lý Hùng - Điều hợp viên thể dục thể thao qua số (03) 9396 1922.

Nhấp chuột vào đây để xem hình ảnh Vũ Cầu Cuối Tuần (Tháng Bảy 2012)

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