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International Women’s Day!
To celebrate this year, we asked inCommunity Connect’s Women’s Club, who are the women who inspire them? Watch this video and be reminded that when women thrive, we all rise.
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Dignity Homelessness Services Australia Visit
Fantastic to have Dignity Homeless Services Australia, Founder and CEO Suzanne, visit inCommunity Connect yesterday! Pictured here with our CEO Paul and Deputy CEO Nerissa, Suzanne visited The Club to see our Dignity Food Relief program in action and visit our youth crisis accommodation, Hargreaves House. In 12 months alone, via our partnership with Dignity, we supported 744 households in Ipswich experiencing challenges in making ends meet with 6,500 nutritious meals. Embedding practical initiatives like Read more
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Our commitment to homelessness prevention and early intervention strategies.
Here at inCommunity Inc, as led by our brand, the Tenancy Skills Institute, we’re committed to delivering strategies that prevent households experiencing challenges from becoming vulnerable to homelessness. This work is made more pressing by the current pressures the specialist homelessness system is experiencing nationally, as shared in the recent Everybody’s Home survey and highlighted in this week’s Local Ipswich News. Read more on this issue from our CEO Paul on page 4 of this Read more
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Cyber Safety Talk
Another fantastic afternoon at Women’s Club today with attendees participating in a Cyber Safety Talk (plus Tasty Treat Tuesday!) Thanks to Senior Constable Shantelle Dowell from the Ipswich Crime Prevention Unit for joining the Women’s Club today to share tips on how to build confidence while staying safe online. An informative session with lots of questions answered and helpful resources shared. Positive conversations, yummy mini pizzas enjoyed, and great connections made. Thanks to everyone who Read more
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Matthew’s Story
An ATAR of 97, guaranteed entry into an accelerated degree at a local sandstone university, and a spot in a semi-professional orchestra. You might be lulled into thinking Matthew’s trajectory into 2026 has been smooth sailing. Quietly confident and easily sharing a joke, Matthew shares how this wasn’t the case and how his final year of school was turned upside down at the outset. Suddenly, managing school whilst experiencing homelessness before being referred to inCommunity Read more
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Amy’s Story
“I am definitely most proud of finishing some of my goals while having somewhere stable to live. Residents, family, the workers … everyone says that they can see a positive change in me. It feels a little bit good in the heart, just a little bit.” Amy, a single mum in her 20s, describes how she feels after her stay at Hargreaves House, inCommunity Connect’s 24-hour youth crisis accommodation service, for just over six months. Read more
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Women’s Club is back for 2026
inCommunity Connect’s Women’s Club is back with lots of activities planned for the year ahead! Have you been thinking of goals you would like to achieve this year? Then why not join us to create our ‘Goal Time Capsule for 2026’ next Tuesday, 20th January, from 12 pm to 4 pm. Attendees will have the opportunity to set their own goals and place them in a private envelope within the time capsule to be opened Read more
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Hargreaves House marks 25 years
“It’s very good that young people have this opportunity. If they can use the opportunity as a stepping stone to permanent accommodation and full-time employment, and improve their lives, that’s what it’s all about. It’s how I looked at it when I lived here.” – Quentin. Recently, inCommunity Connect marked 25 years of delivering its youth crisis accommodation service from Hargreaves House. To acknowledge this significant milestone, we invited Robyn Hargreaves, the building’s namesake, and Read more
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Festive fun for all at Women’s Club
The annual Women’s Club Christmas Lunch was a wonderful get-together with Christmas carols, a delicious lunch and lucky door prizes to be won. An afternoon filled with laughter and great conversations. Watch the video re-cap here. Merry Christmas to our amazing Women’s Club!
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“Another service that keeps showing up, always with compassion.” Darren
“Before working with OneBridge, the conversation would just be strictly around housing. By introducing a different dimension of health care in our conversations, when we introduce the nurses, it allows us to gain a deeper understanding of the barriers a person is encountering on their pathway to housing.” As 2025 draws to a close, Darren, inCommunity Connect’s Team Leader (Outreach), reflects on the positive impact of having the OneBridge nurses work alongside the Assertive Outreach Read more