Meet Your Neighbour
MHCC's new approach to encourage organisations to meet, learn more about each other and find ways to work better together.
Who are the neighbours?
Your neighbours are those targeting the same groups or delivering similar or complimentary services in your geographic area, particularly sharing an interest in mental health.
Meeting your neighbours is the first step in the process of getting to know them and the services they provide and what better way to get to know your neighbours than to visit them.
What happens at a "Meet Your Neighbours" event?
One organisation in a particular area volunteers to be the host (with different organisations taking it in turns to host future events). MHCC works with the host organisations to send out the invitations, manage the responses and to organise morning or afternoon tea.
The get-togethers are meant to be somewhat informal with input from the hosts and plenty of time for networking and sharing individually but a typical program runs like this:
- Chat over tea or coffee on arrival
- Welcome by MHCC
- Introductions of those present
- Host organisation shares about their work
- A few other people share briefly about their work or particular projects (as time permits)
- Sharing and networking over tea & coffee
Those coming are welcome to bring any material about their organisation or projects to share.
How long do they take?
Meet Your Neighbour events usually start at 9.30am to finish by 12 midday or start at 2.00pm to finish by 4.30pm
How often are they held?
The frequency will depend on those who are interested in keeping them going but we would aim to hold an event every three months or so in each area.
Where are they being held?
Please enter the words Meet Your Neighbour into our What's On search to find details of scheduled upcoming events. Events scheduled for 2008 include:
- Lewisham (Compeer-St Vincent de Paul) August
- Woollahra (JewishCare) September
- Newcastle (Richmond Fellowship) October
- Thornleigh (New Horizons) October
Find out more information or volunteer to host
Contact Rod West at MHCC 02-9555 8388 ext 110 or rod@mhcc.org.au