ACSA Committees

Rural and Remote Committee

This national working group was established in May 2000 with the following objective:

"To assist ACSA develop a range of strategies and policy recommendations that will promote the capacity of aged and community services in rural and remote areas to provide access to quality care on a par with services in urban areas, and which will support and ensure their ongoing viability." The working group has developed a Work Plan for 2009/2010 - Rural & Remote Work Plan 2009/2010

The working group is made up of state representatives  who have experience and expertise in this area and they are:

• Paul Johnson, ACQ, Queensland
• Sharon Davis, Frontier Services, Northern Territory
• Alan Graham, ACS SA/NT
• Yvonne Kromkamp, Mt St Vincent, Tasmania
• Julie Christensen, Narrogin Cottage Homes, WA
• David Amesbury, Aged & Community Care Victoria
• Kevin Klose, Autumn Lodge Village, NSW
• Marg Stephens, Research Assistant, Aged and Community Services Australia

National Community Care Committee (NCCAC)

ACSA has established a national Community Care Advisory Committee in response to its large and growing representative role for the community care sector. The Committee provides a forum to consider and address community care issues nationally.

Committee Members are as follows:

• Jill Savell, Director of Community Care, Southern Cross Care, Tas
• Ruth Wilson , Community Care Policy Officer, Aged & Community Services NSW &ACT
• Peta Braendler, Community Services Policy Officer, Aged & Community Services SA & NT
• Paul Johnson, Community Care Officer, Aged Care Queensland
• Christine Bevan, Southern Eastern Community Care Tas
• Carol Bain, General Manager, Silver Chain Nursing Assoc., WA
• Patricia Mitchell, Manager Comm. Care, ACSWA,
• Judy Gregurke, Aged & Community Care Victoria
• Mary Chan , (Minutes Secretary) Research Assistant, Aged & Community Services Australia

The Committee has been proactive in lobbying for reform of community care to address issues such as the number of programs used to fund its services.

Housing and Retirement Living Committee

ACSA's National Housing and Retirement Living Advisory Committee has been convened to focus on the wide range of issues in the provision of suitable, affordable and accessible housing and accommodation (including retirement villages) for older people, younger people with disabilities and their carers. Members of the Committee are:

• Geri Taylor, Aged Care Queensland
• Lyn Polley, Life Care, North Adelaide
• Rod Hunt, St Annes, TAS
• Bob Bunney, Baptistcare, WA.
• Elizabeth Teece, ACS NSW & ACT
• Judy Gregurke, Aged & Community Care Victoria
• Sharon Davis, Frontier Services, NT
• Mike Furner, Baptist Community Services NSW/ACT
• Barbara Squires, Benevolent Society
• Kay Miller, Villa Maria

National Workforce Committee

• Katie Brown, Aged Care Queensland
• Illana Halliday, ACS NSW/ACT
• Darren Matthewson, ACS Tasmania
• Jennifer Lawrence, Brightwater Care Group, WA
• Carol Mohan & Peta Braendler, ACS SA/NT
• David Amesbury,  Aged and Community Care, Vic
• Mary Chan, Research Assistant, Aged & Community Services Australia

Residential Care Advisory Committee

The Residential Care Advisory Committee was established in June 2002 to harness the residential care expertise and skills that exist within the Federation and to provide input to the development of national policy in this area.

Residential Care Committee Work Plan 2008-20010 . Members of the Committee are as follows:

• Pam Bridges,  Aged Care Queensland
• Carolanne Barkla ,  ACS SA & NT
• Angela Holzberger, Guilford Young Grove Mt St Canice, TAS
• Jill Pretty, ACS NSW/ACT
• Kevin Klose, McLean Care, NSW
• Wendy Porter, ACS WA
• Kate Hough , Aged & Community Care Victoria
• Colleen Rivers, Chesalon, NSW

National Education and Training Committee (NETAC)

In May 2003, ACSA established the National Education and Training Advisory Committee to harness the education and training expertise that exists within the Federation. The committee provides a forum to address education and training issues at a national level and co-ordinate and share Federation activities and resources. Members of the Committee are:

• Janet Glaser, ACS NSW/ACT
• Katie Brown, Aged Care Queensland
• Anna Centofanti, ACS SA/NT
• Diana Fitzgerald , Aged & Community Care Victoria
• Teresa Santoro , Aged & Community Services, WA
• Margaret Byrne, Freemasons Homes, TAS
• Mary Chan, (Exec. Support) Aged & Community Services Australia

Committee's Workplan for 2009/2010.