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Today is National Close the Gap Day. A day when we can reflect on the progress we have made as a community to reduce disparities in health, education, employment, housing, and justice outcomes for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples. Here at inCommunity Inc., we remain committed to doing our part in creating positive change in the lived experience of First Nations Peoples. As a specialist housing and homelessness service, we note there is a Read more

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.

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

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

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

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

“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