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Guest post from Kellie MacGillivray, Co-ordinator Homeshare, Uniting Communities

It's true! Our user statistics for SAcommunity show that visits to the website have doubled over the past 12 months and we are now receiving over 1 million visits per year. We think this is great - it shows that the information we are providing for the South Australian public, with the help of our local government partners, is meeting a real need and helping people in a tangible way.

The majority of our users are people living in South Australia and around 40% return to the website one or more times.

WALK FOR MENTAL HEALTH in Mental Health Week

Join Uniting Communities who are holding Tortoise and Hare – the Stress Less Walk at 10.30am on Tuesday 9 October. The route for the walk is along the River Torrens from the weir to the zoo then back to Elder Park to eat lunch (bring your own).

You probably know that Wikipedia is among the most frequently used websites on the World Wide Web.

LGBTIQ is a shortcut for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex and queer.


Some links below are historical and have been edited and expanded.
Please find a revision for 2020 >>here 

The LGTBIQ community is as diverse as the rest of the population, but because of views held in some sections of our society about homosexuality, LGTBIQ people can experience discrimination and marginalisation that lead to a range of related problems concerning self-esteem, physical and mental health.

In April 2011 we wrote a newsletter article about Collaborative Consumption – if you’re not sure what that is, it’s sharing, bartering, lending, trading, renting, gifting, and swapping through network technologies.

There have been lots of developments since then so we’re revisiting the topic to let you know about some new initiatives that you might want to explore and get involved with.

2-8 September National Child Protection Week

Child protection services in SA are provided by both government agencies and community organisations.

Families SA is the SA government agency that is responsible for child protection services, providing support to children and families, intervention and collaboration across agencies.

The South Australian Department for Communities and Social Inclusion (DCSI) has launched a new public information search tool called MapIQ.

MapIQ focuses on connecting citizens to community based services in their neighbourhood and to the wider community. Through simple visualisation mapping technology and the understanding of location it can lead organisations and citizens to make well informed decisions and better choices.

The State Library of South Australia is using Flickr to invite additions to its permanent archival collections.

Where once we waited to see what photographs of South Australian people, places and events came to us, now we are able to actively invite good quality digital images for inclusion in the archives.

Changes are coming for home care services to aged people and people with disabilities

Much has been said about the aged care and disability services recently. Last year the Productivity Commission launched its reports on aged care and on disability care and support. In April this year the Federal Government announced its package of reforms for the aged care sector. It has also committed funds for the first stage of the National Disability Insurance Scheme.