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What is the Day Centre and what does it do?

The Day Centre is a place where people come to meet friends, to find friends, to learn new things, to share a meal, a laugh, a story, to be cared for, to feel special, to give carers a break; it has a different role for each of us.

Clients of the Day Centre - Activity Time

Check out the Day Centre November Newsletter and photos of a Day at the Day Centre pdf

The Day Centre is very exciting. We have a separate dining and activity area, as well as a quiet room and hairdressing / treatment room. We are particularly excited about having an outdoor undercover area and garden. We have visions of raised garden beds filled with tactile and perfumed plants, a bird bath, a vege patch and perhaps even a chook shed.

Dining Room

Spacious Activity Area

The Day Centre started operating in the late 70's, is a HACC funded service that operates 5 days a week and is the only formal day respite program in Murray Bridge and as such plays an important role in the lives of our clients and their carers.

Traditionally, Day Centres have been for frail elderly clients, this is no longer the case. Our clients range in age from 33 to 97. We have clients with dementia, aquired brain injury, parkinson's disease, vision impairment, Down syndrome, who are amputees, who have had strokes, who have mobility issues, speech deficts and other intellectual and physical disabilites. we also have clients who are neither frail nor disabled, but who attend the centre purely for a day out.

Another important aspect of what the day centre offers the community is the opportunities it provides for people to volunteer. We currently have 22 people who volunteer their time, energy, passion, enthusiasm and skills to the Day Centre. Our volunteers are as diverse a group as our clients.

Our program is very much a social and recreational one and we provide a varied and flexible program. Activities include reminiscence, games to stimulate and maintain physical and mental wellbeing, including Tai Chi and chair based exercises, our always popular outings which have seen us travel to places as far as Swan Reach, Willaston, Sellicks Beach and Tanunda to name a few.

Freindly Faces of the Day Centre

For more information please contact the Day Centre Coordinator on 8535 6800.

Our Wellbeing Place

OUR WELLBEING PLACE

• Is a resource for the whole community
• Has a focus on the social and emotional wellbeing of communities in the Murray Mallee and Coorong
• Has a resource and education area that will enable the community to be more informed about social, emotional wellbeing and mental health issues

VISION

A welcoming, friendly and safe place where all people are respected and valued for whom they are and where the social and emotional wellbeing of people and communities is strengthened through providing opportunities for mutual support, information, education and participation, connection with others and reconciliation.

VALUES

• Uphold mutual respect
• Celebration of the cultural and social diversity of people
• Welcoming through inclusivity
• Recognise Social and Emotional Wellbeing is essential to health
• strengthening through participation and support
• We work through partnerships of mutual contribution

CURRENT ACTIVITIES

• Singing - Community Choir pdf
• Mingle Mornings
• Mingle Afternoons
• Cooking - Cooking Through the Cultures
• Tumake Yande
• Knitting
• Groups associated with Murray Mallee Community Health Service, e.g. Parkinsons Group, Aphasia Group, Cancer Group and Stroke Group.
• Theatre Workshops at Our Wellbeing Place

PROPOSED ACTIVITIES

• Relaxation Groups
• Cooking with Cultures
• Emotional Strenght Building Program
• Mud Drumming
• Gambling Help Education sessions

HIRING OUR WELLBEING PLACE

A competitive fee structure has been initiated to enable organisations and groups to hire the facilities to hold meetings, workshops or activities that support social and emotional wellbeing. All activities at the centre must uphold and operate according to the principles of Our Wellbeing Place which are available for the Co-ordinator.

In addition to the above programs operations from Our Wellbeing Place are:

United Care Wesley Adelaide, Murray Mallee Recovery Programs

Co-ordinator Liz Bryant

Phone: 8532 1629

And

Steps to Wellbeing Program

Co-ordinator Rob Thomas

Phone 8531 3469

Murray Mallee Community Health Service

Providing health services to the people of the Murray Mallee.

102 Swanport Rd, Murray Bridge

Phone 8535 6800

Fax 8535 6808

Monday - Friday 9.00am to 5.00pm.

To see a Health Worker contact Health Information & Client Support Staff on 85356800 or visit the Health Service.

SERVICES

WHAT'S ON

GROUPS/PROGRAMS & EVENTS

VOLUNTEERS

OUR WELLBEING PLACE

Some services require a doctor's referral. Interpreting services available.

LINKS

Find other local services

How to support the ABHI Measure Up campaign

Volunteering at Murray Mallee Community Health Service




If you have spare time and want to contribute to your community and you enjoy being a memeber of a team and developing new skills, volunteering with us could be just what you are looking for!

Meet New People

Have Some Fun

Update Your Skills

Add Our Name to Your Resume

Our didicated volunteers contribute in many areas by providing social support, peer support, administrative assistance, even driving the Day Centre bus.

Just a few of our opportunities currently include working in our Day Centre with frail aged and younger disabled clients, assisting with setting up a new resource centre ot Our Wellbieng Place or providing social support for our Lively Legs program. We also have several outdoor gardening projects that could use some enthusiastic green thumbed volunteers!

Why don't you give us a call and find out how you can become involved, or if you would prefer, you can dowload an application form.

Volunteer Application.pdf

Information for Volunteer Applicants.pdf

For more information about these and other opportunities, call the Volunteer Co-ordinator on 8535 6800.

WE CAN'T WAIT TO HEAR FROM YOU!