Community Hub Partners
Current Community Hub Partners and Services
- One Meal
- Centrelink (Services Australia) Outreach
- Legal Aid NSW – Family Law EIU
- Mentoring Men
- Northern Beaches Women’s Shelter
- Family Drug Support
- Ability Options
- Uniting LAC NDIS Support
- Your Side Care Finder Program
- Northern Beaches Mosman College - collaboration for training to our volunteers
- Northern Beaches Community Legal Centre
- Oz Harvest
- ATO Tax Help
- Lifeline Northern Beaches Financial Counselling
- Manly Business Chamber
- Love Scout Counselling
- Clarity Counselling
- Roses in the Ocean - Suicide Prevention
- Lifeline Northern Beaches Counselling Services
- Wayahead Anxiety Support Groups
- Odyssey House Drug & Alcohol Counselling
Our Hubs were also utilised by organisations providing an array of recreational and educational activities:
- Laughter yoga
- Multicultural community yoga
- Multicultural Dance Groups
- Music Classes
- Language classes
- First Aid courses
- Safe driver programs
- Religious worship groups
Legal Aid
Family Law Early Intervention Unit
Please call 1800 551 589 to make an appointment for free confidential legal advice
What Legal Aid can help you with:
- Problems seeing your children.
- Arrangements to look after children within the family.
- Property problems after separation.
- Child support.
- Problems with the Department of Communities and Justice (DCJ) (once called FaCS or DOCS).
- We can assist you to apply for a grant of legal aid and connect you with other legal aid lawyers, court duty lawyers, private practitioners, or family mediation services.
Services Legal Aid provides:
- Legal advice and information.
- Finding a family mediation service
- Finding a lawyer to represent you in an ongoing case if you are eligible for legal aid.
- Helping you to apply for a grant of legal aid.
- Referring you to court duty services.
- Writing a letter, or contacting an agency, such as a government department, on your behalf.
There is no means or merit test.
Centrelink Outreach
A community engagement officer from Centrelink attends the Manly Community Hub Drop-in on Wednesdays from 10am – 12pm to provide assistance to our service users.
Please see below Smart Centre numbers for your information:
What Legal Aid can help you with:
- Employment services 132850
- Youth and students 132490
- Families and parents 136150
- Disability, sickness and carers 132717
- Indigenous call centre 1800136380
- Medicare 132011
- Child support 131272
- Phone self-service 136240
Manly Business Chamber
The Manly Business Chamber is one of the strongest in New South Wales, providing a platform to help members prosper and succeed through a productive working partnership with all levels of Government and other community organisations. The Chamber acts as the collective voice of businesses and seeks the involvement and participation of a cross-section representative to:
- participate in debates on matters of public importance
- provide exposure for our members and their businesses
- encourage the retention of community dollars within Manly to maintain and strengthen a prosperous business climate
- actively promotes Manly’s attractions and lifestyle with a view to drawing new residents, visitors and tourists
- pursues objectives and strategies to favour development in Manly
- recognises the need for links between Chamber, Council and tourism bodies when working towards common goals
- provide the opportunity for all members to prosper within the Manly region whenever possible.
Your side care finder
This program is a free service. Care finders help people access care services and connect with other relevant supports in the community. Some older people need extra, intensive support to access aged care services and other supports in the community. It exists to support vulnerable people – who have no one else who can support them – to learn about, apply for and set up support services.
Please call 02 8405 4484 or email carefinder@yourside.org.au
The care finder service is not available for everyone. It is specifically for vulnerable older people.
Who is eligible:
- People who are uncomfortable or mistrusting of government due to past discrimination or trauma
- LGBTQIA+ community.
- Forgotten Australians.
- Care Leavers
- Refugees or migrants from conflict zones.
- People with language barriers and no support.
- People with cognitive impairments and no support
- People at risk of homelessness or who will be in an unsafe situation if they do not receive services
- People at risk of elder abuse
- Veterans
- People struggling with alcohol and other drugs dependence.
- People who have a disability, impairment, or mental health concerns.
- People who have communication, literacy or learning difficulties.
- People who have difficulty understanding information and making decisions.
Odyssey House drug and alcohol counselling
Offers free individual counselling and group programs in the Northern Beaches and Sydney North areas
Please call 1800 397 739 and select option 2
SMART RECOVERY GROUP
Odyssey House Community Services offers Self-Management and Recovery Training (SMART) program to support and assist people concerned about drug and/or alcohol use. Participants will learn new skills to overcome challenges that may be impacting not only their life and health but their friends, family, and wider community.
SMART PARTICIPANTS WILL GAIN SKILLS AND SUPPORT WITH:
- Focus on the addictive behaviour and not on the substance itself.
- Use evidence-based tools and techniques.
- Mutual aid: participants share practical solutions as a group.
- Concentrates on the ‘here and now’. Last 7 days, next 7 days
- Goal setting: set your own achievable plan for the week ahead.
Mentoring men
Is a free service that carefully matches you with another adult male who is trained to listen, support and help you define meaning, hope and goals in your life.
Mentoring Men is made up of Mentees and Mentors. Mentee, a man who seeks to improve their life with support from a Mentor.
Mentor, a man who volunteers his time to meet, listen and help a Mentee in his life journey.
Please call 1300 583 925 or email info@mentoringmen.org.au to find out how we can help you.
Mentee’s can see a number of results:
- Increased resilience, emotional awareness and communication
- A renewed sense of purpose.
- Reduced feeling of isolation.
- Improved relationships
- Encouraged integration.
- Higher levels of service and contribution to the community.
Mentors have recorded the following benefits:
- A strong sense of fulfilment and purpose knowing their time and contributions are helping someone in need.
- A sense of achievement knowing they are helping to make a difference by addressing key issues in society
Low cost counselling service
By Appointment only. Affordable counselling services available with no referrals needed and no limit on how many sessions.
Please call 02 9949 5522 or email admin@lifelinenb.org.au
OUR HIGHLY QUALIFIED COUNSELLORS HAVE EXPERTISE IN:
- Depression.
- Sleep problems.
- Stress management.
- Relationship issues
- General health issues.
- Parenting difficulties.
- Anxiety / panic attacks
- Obsessive compulsive disorders
- Emotional overeating.
- Post traumatic stress disorder
- Adult survivors of childhood trauma.
- Grief and loss.
- Substance misuse / addictions.
- Suicide bereavement.
- Financial issues
- Gambling issues
Cost
$30 Individual
$40 Couples
$15 Concession only
Crisis Helpline 13 11 14
Lifeline Financial Counselling
Lifeline Northern Beaches FREE service allows you to see a financial counsellor who is a community worker, with no conflict of interest. They can act as a negotiator and advocate on behalf of people who are at financial risk, without you incurring any out-of-pocket costs.
Please call 02 9949 5522 or email admin@lifelinenb.org.au
Financial counsellors have expertise in:
- Undertaking a full assessment of your financial situation, including regular income and expenditure, assets and liabilities
- Advocate on your behalf with your creditors.
- Develop financial and practical options.
- Assist in budgeting and organising your finances.
- Assist with bankruptcy.
Crisis Helpline 13 11 14
Employment and disability Service
Ability Options provide free employment and disability services. They support people and foster inclusion in the community. They operate services to support people with disabilities and those whose lives are changed as a range of accidents, unemployment and disadvantage.
Their Disability Services support people through accommodation, respite care, support coordination, community services and therapy. Their Employment Services assist job seekers, including parents, indigenous communities, school leavers and people with disability, to find work.
Please contact Robby El Amal, Community Engagement Consultant on robby.elamal@abilityoptions.org.au
services provided:
- Disability Employment Services
- Parents Next.
- Work Ready.
- Therapy Services
- Respite Services.
- Accommodation & Independent Supported Living.
- Community Activities
- Writing a letter, or contacting an agency, such as a government department, on your behalf.
No appointments required.
Uniting LAC NDIS Drop In
Come along and have your questions answered by an NDIS representative.
Every Wednesday, 12pm – 1pm at 52 Raglan Street, Manly
SERVICES:
- Learn more about the NDIS and how to apply
- Discover options available to you if you do not meet the NDIS eligibility access criteria.
- Opportunity to speak with an industry expert about any of your NDIS or disability related questions.
For all other enquiries, please use this contact form below.
