In 2024, The Social Deck worked with the Department of Health and Aged Care to coordinate and attend community pop-up events to encourage more volunteers in aged care, through the Aged Care Volunteer Visitors Scheme (ACVVS).
The ACVVS is a national program that supports volunteer visits to provide friendship and companionship to older people in aged care.
There are over 140 auspices who recruit and support volunteers in their local communities, and there are currently around 4,000 volunteer vacancies in the program.
We partnered with some of these auspices in areas where volunteer numbers were lower to hold pop-ups in places like libraries and markets to raise awareness of the program. This also helped us to understand and share what might prevent people from signing up as a volunteer visitor.
We engaged with over 1,400 community members at 15 pop up events across Australia.
The Social Deck worked with the Department of Health and Aged Care to coordinate and attend community pop-up events to encourage more volunteers in aged care through the Aged Care Volunteer Visitors Scheme.
The Social Deck acknowledges the traditional custodians of Country throughout Australia and recognises their continuing connection to land, waters and community. Our staff live and work on the lands of many First Nations peoples, including the Gubbi Gubbi or Kabi Kabi people, the Turrbal and Yuggera people, the Bundjalung people, the Ngarigo and Ngunnawal people and the Wadawurrung people. These peoples have lived on and cared for these lands for thousands of generations, and their sovereignty has never been ceded. We pay our respects to them and their cultures, and to elders past and present.
The Social Deck acknowledges the traditional custodians of Country throughout Australia and recognises their continuing connection to land, waters and community. Our staff live and work on the lands of many First Nations peoples, including the Gubbi Gubbi or Kabi Kabi people, the Turrbal and Yuggera people, the Bundjalung people, the Ngarigo and Ngunnawal people and the Wadawurrung people. These peoples have lived on and cared for these lands for thousands of generations, and their sovereignty has never been ceded. We pay our respects to them and their cultures, and to elders past and present.
