THE ACT Home and Community Care will celebrate 25 years of operation today.
The ACT HACC consists of 32 service delivery organisations, with a total of 13,012 clients – 3.7 per cent of the ACT population. The program provides community care services to frail aged and younger people with disabilities, and carers, to enable them to live as independently as possible.
“HACC is a vital service for many Canberrans who rely on the support and contact the program provides,” ACT Council of Social Services director Roslyn Dundas said.
“Over the past 25 years the program has grown and developed, and with the National Health Care Reforms impacting on the program we face a range of changes in the future.
“Coming together at this important time in the program’s history is a great opportunity to celebrate the workers in the HACC program as well as prepare for the future.”
The HACC Program is a joint Australian, State and Territory initiative, managed in the ACT through the Health Directorate. ACTCOSS provides sector development programs and support to HACC agencies.
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