Page 368 - Week 03 - Thursday, 1 June 1989
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capital grant of $18,000 and running costs for the van of $3,500 per annum.
The ACT Home Help service will be provided with funding to upgrade the service's computing facilities, not only to cater to its current and future needs but also to assist two other services which cater to HACC clients - Handyhelp ACT and the ACT Council on the Ageing respite care program.
The three services will be collocated in the extension to the Hughes Community Centre. The capital grant for Home Help will amount to $17,000. The ACT Council on the Ageing respite care service will receive funds to cover the cost of new computer facilities, furniture and equipment which will be required when the service moves into its new facilities at the Hughes Community Centre.
Funds will also be provided to translate its brochures, as well as those of Handyhelp ACT and the Red Cross Home Help service, into a number of languages. The total grant is $24,000. Mr Speaker, Handyhelp ACT will receive funding to enable the service to purchase a photocopier, computer facilities and other items of furniture and equipment for use in its new office, totalling $21,000. A one-off grant of $3,000 is also being provided to assist in the provision of home maintenance services for ACT frail aged residents.
A grant of $66,000 has been approved to enable Barnardo's Australia to build and furnish an extension to its office space. The new office will house workers employed to administer the respite care service.
The Uniting Church Chinner Crescent day centre will receive a grant of $12,000 for the purchase of equipment and furniture for use in the existing day centre and in the new day centre expected to be completed early in 1990. It will also receive, Mr Speaker, a grant of $70,120 as a contribution towards the cost of building the new centre and to make the garden area of the new day centre secure for its clients, including those with senile dementia.
The regional community services will receive funding for a variety of HACC projects. The Northside Community Service will be provided with a grant of $3,100 to enable the service to purchase some small pieces of equipment. This will include a cassette player and sewing machine, which will enable a wider range of activities to be offered to clients.
A grant of $4,000 has been approved for the Tuggeranong Community Service Inc. to enable the service to purchase computer furniture, to train its staff on the use of its new computer, and to fund one-off data entry into the new computer.
The Weston Creek Community Centre will receive a grant of $18,500 to purchase new equipment for the proposed extension to the day centre; to purchase a computer for use
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