Community Development
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Community Services
Joanne Lorraine, Manager
Email to: joannelo@fremantle.wa.gov.au
Fremantle Community Legal Centre
Lynda Wennstrom, Coordinator
Phone: 9432 9993
Email to: lyndaw@fremantle.wa.gov.au
Fremantle Community Legal Centre (FCLC) is a non profit organization supporting the community through the following services:
- Financial Counselling
- Legal Advice
- Evening Legal Services
- Welfare Rights
- Tenancy Issues
A range of information sessions can be provided to groups or other service providers.
All services are by appointment - phone 9432 9790.
For additional information click on the link :- http://www.freofocus.com/facilities/html/fclc.cfm
Youth Services
Michelle Champion, Coordinator
Phone: 9432 9510
Email to: michellec@fremantle.wa.gov.au
Fremantle Community Youth Services (FCYS) aims to provide an equitable, holistic service that strives to provide high quality, useful and relevant information, resources and support to young people, their families and the community through:
- Outreach Services
- Information, Advocacy & Referral Service
- Supported Accommodation
- Parent Support Program
- Youth Adventure Program
- Youth Policy
- Cockburn, Melville & Fremantle Interagency Youth Forum
For more information on any of these services please call 9432 9824 or click on the link below:-
http://www.freofocus.com/facilities/html/youth.cfm
Fremantle Community Care
Jan Bayman, Coordinator
Phone: 9432 9542
Email to: janb@fremantle.wa.gov.au
Fremantle Community Care delivers a range of services designed to support people who wish to remain in their own homes. They include:
- Community Aged Care Packages & Domestic Assistance
- Fremantle Community Day Centre
- Fremantle Connection & Freo Club
- Carer Support
- Dial A Ride
- Meals On Wheels
- Podiatry
- Social & Recreation Activities
- Independent Accommodation
For more information please call 1800 062 692 or click on the link below:-
http://www.freofocus.com/facilities/html/seniors.cfm
The Meeting Place
Jenny Marslen, Programming Officer
Kathy Ings, Administration Officer
Phone: 9335 3394
Email to: meetingplace@fremantle.wa.gov.au
The Meeting Place Community Centre is located in South Fremantle and provides:
- Community Education
- Community Support
- Working With The community
For more information about the services provided at The Meeting Place, please call 9335 3394 or click on the link below:-
http://www.freofocus.com/facilities/html/meeting_place.cfm
The Fremantle Volunteer Service
Phone: 9335 3394
Email to: fvc@fremantle.wa.gov.au
Website link: http://www.freofocus.com/volunteer/html/default.cfm
The Fremantle Volunteer Service is located at the Meeting Place Community Centre in South Fremantle and provides:
- Information and resources to potential volunteers.
- Referral of volunteers to positions in not for profit agencies
- Assistance with recruitment of volunteers
- Promotion of volunteering within the Fremantle community.
The Fremantle Volunteer Service is open Tuesday to Friday 10am – 3pm.
Warrawee Women’s Refuge
Lynda Wennstrom, Coordinator
Phone: 9432 9837
Email to: lyndaw@fremantle.wa.gov.au
Warrawee Women’s Refuge assists women and children escaping family and domestic violence by providing:
- Crisis Accommodation
- Advocacy & Referral
- Emotional Support
- Information & Referral
- Child Support
- Outreach Support
For more information please call 9432 9819.
Fremantle Domestic Violence Regional Committee
For additional information click on the link below:-
http://www.freofocus.com.au/dvc/index.html
Fremantle Children’s Services
Michelle Champion, Coordinator
Phone: 9432 9825
Email to: michellec@fremantle.wa.gov.au
In keeping with community needs and aspirations, Fremantle Children’s Services will provide quality opportunities and experience which contribute to the current and future wellbeing of children, young people and their families. This is achieved through the following programs:
- Long Day Care
- Out Of School Hours Care & Vacation Care
- Vacation Care
- Toy Library
- Buster The Fun Bus
For additional information click on the link below:-
http://www.freofocus.com/facilities/html/child_serv.cfm
Universal Access
Adelaide Wood, Project Officer
Phone: 9432 9822
Email to: adelaidew@fremantle.wa.gov.au
The City is committed to providing equitable access to all people and as such has developed a Universal Access Plan. The Universal Access Project Officer works on ways to ensure that people who have a disability are still able to participate in community life throughout Fremantle.
If you have a problem accessing Council services, would like to know more about universal access or if you would like to join the consulting committee please call the Project Officer on 9432 9923
Culture and Recreation
Cultural Development
What makes Fremantle the place we call “Freo” is how we express ourselves daily as a community. Culture is in the things we do everyday, the films we watch, the sport we play, and how we live together as a community with diverse backgrounds and interests. It is also about how we understand and celebrate our identity. It is important to make sure that all of Council’s programs are sensitive to our cultural aspirations. The Cultural Development Coordinator is guided by Council’s Cultural Policy and Plan and works to ensure that creative celebrations of culture are part of our City experience.
Festivals and Special Events
A city that doesn’t know how to play and celebrate itself would be a very dull city indeed. Festivals and special events bring Fremantle alive with the daring, the divine and the downright crazy. Our Festivals and Special Events Coordinator puts together arrange of events throughout the year that express the unique character or Fremantle – with local people taking the lead role. There are many ways you can get involved, as a volunteer, participant or initiator of an event, and your ideas are always welcome. To view the festivals organized by the City, click on the link below:
http://www.fremantlefestivals.com
Precincts
Jen Valesini, Officer
Phone: 9432 9919
Email to: kayr@fremantle.wa.gov.au
Precincts are Council-sponsored local community groups that enable everyone to help shape their local neighbourhood and the future of Fremantle. People who live or work in Fremantle are best placed to inform Council of their vision for the future and the immediate needs in their area. Precinct groups are participation –in-action, neighbours meeting and working together for the benefit of the whole community. Attending monthly meetings or accessing information on the Precinct web site will help you to feel a part of the Fremantle community, and allow you to shape the decisions that are made by your elected representatives.
For additional information click on the website below:
http://www.freofocus.com/precinct/html/default.cfm
Fremantle Arts Centre
Jim Cathcart, Director
Phone: 9336 0238
Email to: jimc@fremantle.wa..gov.au
Fremantle Arts Centre is one of Western Australia's leading arts organisations. The Centre runs a diverse cultural program that includes exhibitions of contemporary visual art and craft, creative arts courses for leisure learning, and free music concerts on Sunday afternoons. Each year the Centre participates in local arts festivals and bi-annually hosts the Perth Writer's Festival.
Fremantle Arts Centre receives funding from the City of Fremantle, ArtsWA and the Australia Council.
Recreation
Vikki Barlow, Coordinator
Phone: 9432 9939
Email to: vikkib@fremantle.wa.gov.au
Being active to diverse range of recreational and sporting opportunities is a big part of living in Fremantle. There are many recreational options for people of all ages to choose from. The Recreation Development Coordinator aims to provide programmes and facilities that enable you to pursue the kind of leisure activities you want – recreation that makes you feel alive and challenges you both physically and mentally. Whatever you are into –Fremantle has it!
Fremantle Leisure Centre
John East, Coordinator
Phone: 9432 9534
Email to: johne@fremantle.wa.gov.au
For additional information please click on the link below:
http://www.freofocus.com/facilities/html/leisure.cfm
Samson Recreation Centre
Cherryl Librizzi, Officer
Phone: 9331 8040
Email to: cherryll@fremantle.wa.gov.au
For additional information please click on the link below:
http://www.freofocus.com/facilities/html/samson.cfm
International Relations
As a port city, on the edge of the Indian Ocean, Fremantle has long been the western gateway to Australia. The city celebrates its diversity and heritage through international cultural and economic exchanges, under Council’s Sister City programme. Many of our ties with other cities spring from the close family connections between the citizens of Fremantle and our sister cities in Italy, Portugal, Malaysia, Japan and our friendship cities in Indonesia and Croatia.
For additional information please click on the link below:
http://www.freofocus.com/council/html/international.cfm
Library and Information
Julie Caddy, City Librarian
Phone: 9432 9769
Email to: JulieC@fremantle.wa.gov.au
The Fremantle City Library operates as a joint venture with the Town of East Fremantle and the Library & Information Service of WA.
The Library provides a range of services to meet the information and recreation needs of the community:
- Children's library
- Adult library
- Community information service
- Local history service
- Special collections (Young adult, Large Print, Music on CD and Cassette, Spoken Word Cassettes, Video Recordings, CD ROMs, LOTE Units, Multi-lingual Health Information, Adult Literacy Collection, Reports, Current Information Section, Newspapers, Magazines and Newsletters.
- Public Access Internet
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