Community Partners Program (CPP)
The Community Partners Program (CPP) assists older people from various migrant communities to receive informaiton needed for support in their home or to move from their home to residential aged care facilities. We also assist aged care services seeking information about Culturally and Linguistically Diverse (CaLD) communities. Refer to the resource page for information on CaLD communities.
CPP assists communities in learning more about community aged care services and residential aged care and promotes and develops links between migrant communities and residential aged care facilities.
This program operates statewide, focusing on the North, North-West and South. Each year it has worked with specific communities to develop their capacity to access aged care services.
There has been a shift from the more established CaLD communities who settled in Tasmania after WW2, towards newer arrived groups including Amharic and Tigrinya speaking from Ethiopia, Arabic Juba speaking from Sudan, and Farsi speaking from Afghanistan. CPP also worked with the Hindi speaking Indian community, Tagalog speaking Philippine community and Chinese, Dutch, Croatian and German communities. The employment of bi-cultural workers directly from these communities has proved a very successful strategy towards involving and including them in aged care.
CPP continues to offer Community Cultural Representatives as linkages between residents in nursing homes and their CaLD communities. These representatives are supported by the CPP Project Officer and the MRC’s volunteer program.
