Great Lakes Community Resources Inc.

Great Lakes Community Resources Incorporated is a not for profit community development Association. Great Lakes Community Resources ("the Association") was incorporated in 1987. It has vigorously pursued its human resource and community development aims by drawing on government, industry and the community to provide services, programs and enterprises...

to enable people, particularly the disadvantaged, to develop social and economic livelihoods for themselves. The Association is committed to the notion that a community may be judged by how it treats its disadvantaged. The Association assists the disadvantaged as an expression of compassion and to develop a safe and healthy community.

Our Aims

To deliver programs and services intended to meet identified needs in the community.

Current services and programs provide:

• Needed services to the target groups
• Employment and on-the-job training to the target groups
• Enterprise experience and resources to the Association and its target groups
• Evidence of the skills and abilities of the target groups to the community

The target groups are disadvantaged unemployed including:

• Aboriginal people
• Offenders and ex-offenders
• Homeless, particularly young homeless and those at risk of homelessness
• Early school leavers
• Those with low literacy and numeracy skills
• Substance abusers
• The disabled

Great Lakes Community Resources invites you to discover our range of affordable conference and training facilities.

Our corporate office and services will enhance your business image and give you the professional edge. Our services include:

• Meeting and greeting clients
• Secretarial services
• Tea and coffee making facilities
• Located in the Bridgepoint building, with beautiful views of Wallis Lake

Features: Ergonomic furniture, specific and natural lighting, display and presentation facilities, black out capabilities and a distraction free environment.

Audio Visual Equipment: TV/VCR, Data projector, overhead projector and screen and internet access (available in Training room and Conference room only).

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• Helping Hands
• Home Modification Service
• Homebase Youth Service
• Resource Recovery
• Workplace Services
• Worksmart Training

Great Lakes Community Resources ("Community Resources") was established as a Skillshare, a community based, Federally funded program to assist unemployed, particularly disadvantaged unemployed, to obtain and retain employment. Target groups included Aboriginal unemployed, long term unemployed, homeless, disabled, offenders.

We aimed to assist target group clients to develop social and economic livelihoods for themselves. Strategies included vocational training, job search assistance, work experience placement, and enterprise development. This involved extensive Labor Market Research, client needs analysis and developing excellent relationships with employers, training providers, and referral agencies.

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