Overview
Through direct action programs people in need in the local area are reached and supported.
Bayswater North and surrounding suburbs have a diversity of needs and many of its residents have few support mechanisms such as a functioning extended family. We attempt to meet these needs in practical ways with a mix of paid and volunteer staff that welcome anyone into our extended community life.
For the past 40 years TLC has been supporting and serving the local community in the Maroondah & Knox Regions. We have had countless people enter our doors throughout the week looking for support in various ways. We have been able to assist people due to the network of volunteers and partnerships that have been formed locally.
TLC Support Inc. was formed in 2013 to bring together into a single organisation our activities that provide direct benevolent relief to people in the local community, especially to:
(a) young people at risk and their families;
(b) people facing financial hardship and chronic unemployment;
(c) people with disabilities;
(d) people experiencing physical and mental illness; and
(e) refugees and asylum seekers.
TLC Support Inc is a registered Charity with Deductible Gift Recipient (DGR) status.
TLC Support Inc ABN: 32 366 900 479
A summary of our activities is set out below. For a fuller explanation go to the TLC Support website.
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Winter Shelter
Winter is a terrible time to have nowhere safe and warm to sleep.
There is a great shortage of overnight accommodation for homeless men, in Maroondah. It's tough for everybody struggling with low cost accommodation, but while there are programs for homeless youth, and significant resources for homeless women and children, there are very few places homeless men can go.
The churches of Melbourne's Eastern Suburbs, specifically in the City of Maroondah have decided to make their spaces available to the homeless men, on a rotating, nightly basis, and to provide an evening and breakfast meal. The program is called Winter Shelter, and you can read about it, and volunteer your time by visiting the website http://wintershelter.org.au and see how it’s changing the world, for the homeless men of Maroondah. With a warm place to sleep, supportive people, and hot, nourishing food, their winter will be very different from what they expected.
TLC has a roster of volunteers that set up, cook and support the men each Monday night in the Coffee Shop.
YaFT
YaFT supports young people to discover their potential, grow in self care, develop strategies for healthy relationship with family and others, to connect with community and live well.
YaFT utilises counseling, therapeutic group work, narrative and bush adventure therapy in many settings; home, school and the bush to achieve it's objectives.
YaFT is not for profit and values partnerships with other organisations and volunteers to provide a varied and flexible approach to meet the needs of young people, with a focus for those 'at risk' and families in distress.
YaFT supports young people and families in need or distress in Eastern & Southern Melbourne and Gippsland, having developed over the last 30 years.
FOODBANK
TLC Support Inc. operates a food bank that provides food relief for people facing financial hardship, unemployment, poverty and difficult circumstances.
Food donations are received from the church community and the Vic Relief Foodbank program, a program of Foodbank Australia which is a charity.
Food Parcels available from the TLC Office:
Monday afternoon 1 - 3 pm
Tuesday afternoon 1 - 3 pm
BRINK
Tuesday 10am-12.30pm (includes lunch)
Drop in for coffee, conversation and craft. Operating out of the TLC Coffee Shop, we gather weekly to enjoy each others company over board games or our latest craft projects.
All welcome!