Support for Vulnerable Community Members

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The opportunity

Enabling community service providers to deliver the essential supports needed by the most vulnerable members of our community.

What will be delivered

Current emergency relief and vulnerable support service providers in Frankston City are experiencing high and increasing demand from our most disadvantaged community members, and require increased ongoing annual funding to meet needs, indexed each year with CPI. As an example, Frankston City’s primary and only Federally funded emergency relief provider Community Support Frankston has seen a 120% increase in requests for support since 2018, whereas their Federal funding has remained largely the same.

Council has partnered with Metro Trains Melbourne and South East Community Links (SECL) on a new community outreach initiative identified in the Young Street Action Plan aimed at assisting community members and passengers who frequent the station precinct and face complex challenges, including mental health issues, substance abuse, poverty, family violence, and housing insecurity.

What we need

Council is seeking Federal Government funding to deliver on two important initiatives that support our community:

  • Seeking to secure ongoing Federal funding of an additional $500,000 per annum for wider emergency relief providers operating in the Frankston municipality to address the needs of vulnerable residents, noting the substantial role of Community Support Frankston and other services that are currently provided in the Frankston municipality.
  • Seeking Federal funding of $350,000 per annum over three years (2026-2028) to extend the Community Connections pilot project at Frankston Station (currently operating until late 2025), providing two (2) mental health and social support practitioners to deliver support services to community members and to improve public safety.
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