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OneBridge Nurse Brie and inCommunity Connect Women's Club Participant Bec pictured inside Women's Club.

“Grateful the Nurses Are Here” – A Story from the inCommunity Inc Annual Report

“Grateful the Nurses Are Here” For a very long time, it has been evident to us as an organisation that the Ipswich community needed an on-the-ground health care service, most significantly for those people sleeping rough. The very definition of innovation is to find a new idea or method to problem-solve. So, in the knowledge that Beddown donors are driven to support people experiencing homelessness with a health and wellbeing response, commencing in May 2024, Read more…

Graphic with 13000 people inspired to believe they can with cover of 2023-2024 Annual Report

A Year of Huge Impact

13,000 people engaged with at least one of our programs in the 2023-2024 period, double, plus some more from the previous year—a year of huge impact. At last week’s Annual General Meeting, our CEO Paul and Deputy CEO Nerissa delivered inCommunity Inc’s 2023-2024 Annual Report: Innovate. Inspire. Independent. This report explores how these three words embody the ‘in’ within inCommunity and how we embed them at each touchpoint of our organisation as we seek to Read more…

inCommunity Connect and Tenancy Skills Institute team members standing together at the REIQ Awards

Congratulations to all of the recipients of the REIQ Awards for Excellence 2024

The Tenancy Skill Institute and inCommunity Connect team members were honoured to join in the celebrations at Saturday’s awards night. Through our cross-sector collaboration work, we have built extraordinary connections with the Real Estate Industry, an essential stakeholder in our organisation’s drive to address the issue of homelessness. It was also terrific to see long-term supporters of our organisation inCommunity Inc be recognised for their excellence, such as Laura Valenti and her team at McGrath North Read more…

AI generated image of cap with inCommunity Connect logo featured on it, on a coffee table in a modern apartment.

“I’ve made a real leap forward, 100%” Omar’s Story

Laid-back, polite, good-natured, and open to the future, 20-year-old Omar* is like any young person you may know. He is ready for the world of crypto, AI, and whatever good fortune lies ahead. We meet Omar on his last day at Hargreaves House, inCommunity Connect’s crisis accommodation program for young people. He has just ticked off his final goal set here: securing long-term accommodation, and he is beaming. Omar has just signed a lease for Read more…

Group photo of inCommunity Inc team members gathered together in event space.

Yesterday – Today – Tomorrow!

inCommunity Inc held its inaugural Staff Conference on Monday. Bringing our teams together for a day to focus on where our organisation originates, what we’re achieving today as a specialist housing and homelessness service, and highlighting our focus for a bright tomorrow! A special opportunity for our organisation to come together to deepen our collective knowledge, reflect and discuss our learnings, strengthen our team’s collaboration and wellbeing, and build our future together. Highlights? There were Read more…

Attendees at Cross-Sector Collaboration Event

Better rental outcomes together!

Thank you Ipswich Real Estate Network for your time today attending our Cross-Sector Connection Event, hosted by Peter Brewer, REIQ Chairperson and Ambassador to the Tenancy Skills Institute. A chance for Property Managers to connect with the Tenancy Skills Institute and the inCommunity Connect Case Management Team to discover ways we can work together to deliver early intervention strategies – keeping tenancies at risk on track! Following our teams’ presentations, attendees engaged in a meaningful discussion Read more…

Graphic with quote from Ashlee "You can't wait until life's not hard anymore to be happy."

“You can’t wait until life’s not hard anymore to be happy.”

“One day you wake up and it’s now just me. I’m calling the shots, what do I want for myself? I had to move quick.” Ashlee, 20, reflects on the moment she decided to commence participating in inCommunity Connect’s programs when she was 16. At the time, she was a Year 11 student working at a fast-food chain, “I was nervous and unsure if I wanted to enter the program. But I took that big Read more…

Interns Belinda (online), Jasper and Carly are sitting with inCommunity Leaders and Mentors in boardroom.

Our Inaugural Internship Program launches today!

inCommunity Inc’s Inaugural Internship Program launches today! Belinda, Carly and Jasper are excited to join the inCommunity team as part of our paid 12-month Case Manager Internship Program for our Specialist Housing and Homelessness Service, commencing with their dedicated Induction Day. This session covers a range of foundational learnings for Belinda, Carly and Jasper including inCommunity’s Why, Just Cause and Values shared by our CEO Paul and Deputy CEO Nerissa. And meeting their Mentors including Read more…

Graphic image of map of Australia with Cairns, Canberra, Ballarat and Melbourne highlighted with inCommunity Connect Logo

Gathering insights, reflecting and collaborating!

InCommunity Connect Case Managers hit the road in the first part of this year, travelling from Far North Queensland to Victoria, meeting with fellow practitioners from other community organisations for the inCommunity Connect 2024 Study Tour. Our Case Managers rarely have the opportunity to step away from their on-the-ground work to enquire about others’ practices, so when the team came together for their Planning Day we took a moment to hear their insights and reflections Read more…

One Bridge Nurse with inCommunity Connect Women's Club Participant, seated receiving medical support.

Our Impactful Partnership with OneBridge!

Since May of this year, the One Bridge team of registered nurses has been working alongside Beddown and InCommunity Connect teams within the Ipswich community. Their impact has been incredible! Providing an invaluable medical service to people sleeping rough including through connections made via inCommunity Connect’s Assertive Outreach Team – dressing wounds, facilitating links to scripts, and providing on-the-spot medical care. The One Bridge team has also dropped into other programs delivered by inCommunity Connect Read more…