City of Stirling Corporate Business Plan

OUR COMMUNITY

Objective: Connect communities with their local areas With an extremely diverse population, it is important that the City supports and encourages our residents to be part of their local communities. We are respectful of all cultures and embrace diversity and equal opportunity. We will create welcoming places and provide opportunities to bring people together so that they feel included and have a variety of ways to participate in community life.

An inclusive and harmonious City

Strategy: How will we get there? • Facilitate social connections and access to services locally • Build strong relationships with our multicultural and diverse community • Encourage active participation and volunteering • Enable opportunities for lifelong learning.

Key informing frameworks and plans • Access and Inclusion Plan

• Age-Friendly Strategy • Homelessness Strategy • Multicultural Framework • Public Art Masterplan • Reconciliation Action Plan • Stirling Libraries Strategy • Youth Framework.

Services Main services

Sub-services

FTE

2023/24 net service cost

46.46

$151,273

• Community care services • Care finder service • Community food services

Aged Care Services

10.78

$2,414,146

• Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander engagement • Access and inclusion • Age-friendly communities • Community hubs • Homelessness support • Stirling Community Men’s Shed • Social planning • Volunteer services • Women’s shed

Community Development

14.89

$806,451

Family Services • Community driven activities and programs • Stirling Women’s Centre • Safe at Home • Naala Djookan Healing Centre

65.71

$11,155,697

• Library and information services • Lifelong learning development programs and projects • Community history services • Multicultural framework • Settlement Engagement and Transition Support

Libraries & Lifelong Learning

Multicultural Engagement

2.80

$322,513

Youth & Children Development

• Youth development • Childhood development

5.60

$948,786

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