Hastings Care & Support

If you want more Happiness try some of these. 💖🙂

This is superstar Louise 🤩 who has worked for HCAS as one of our valued support workers over the last 18 months. Louise finishes up next week. * She has made a huge contribution each week; adhering to policies & procedures, taking her client to medical appointments, allied health therapy, shopping & assistance with in home support. She has also brought much joy & happiness 🙂assisting with art & gardening projects 🪴, coffee catch ups ☕, going to musical theatre & exploring nature. Thanks Louise for everything. You will be missed. We wish you a bright & happy future .💐💐💐

At HCAS we love providing person centred support to assist NDIS participants achieve their Well Being & NDIS goals.
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We provide support to embrace 'Adulting', bringing a balance between serious tasks & encouraging enjoyable stuff too. Here's a few photos from this month of food, snow, art, entertainment & origami. (For privacy we've hidden participants faces from photos & not taken photos of the home tasks such as laundry, dirty kitchen dishes & domestic tasks that we have helped with - other than cooking).

:) Supporting people to live their best life with health & wellbeing, fun, personal interests & adventure activities.

Mental Health Awareness Month! – Some of the fun ways we supported NDIS participants with their mental health this month.
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*Bushwalking, scenic walks & day trips, sailing with Sailability NSW - Port Macquarie, surf ski paddling, gazing at sunsets.
* Art & craft projects, journaling & mindfulness meditation.
* Car Karaoke, trivia, hoola-hooping & boxing the stress out (low impact), tenpin bowling, meal prep, baking, relaxation at outdoor cafes.

Our service provides non judgemental support with: challenges in life, problem solving, personal interests & goals.

It’s volunteer week & we’d like to say THANK YOU to all of the fabulous volunteers who donate their time in the Hastings Community.

At HCAS we offer Disability & Mental Health support services & over the last few years we’ve connected some of our clients to the below 5 organisations & observed their volunteers bring a smile to the faces of so many deserving people.

1: Port Macquarie Sailability
* Volunteers regularly assist one of the NDIS participants that we support to enjoy time on the water sailing each week

2. Port Macquarie Neighbourhood Centre
*Volunteers have assisted several of the NDIS participants we support over the years to participate in events at the centre & with providing much needed food assistance too

3. St Thomas Soup Kitchen – (& Blue Sky Laundry)
*Volunteers have provided regular groceries, lunches & laundry services & smiles to several of the NDIS participants that we’ve supported

4. The Hope Shop – Port Macquarie
*Volunteers have provided an emergency voucher to several of the participants that we've been supporting

5. Our local help Inc. (previously Port Macquarie- Hastings Community Help Inc.)
*Cath & the team have provided care packages for several of the people we’ve supported during hardship

Delicious meals - 🍕🥗🥙🧄🥦
Some adults that HCAS support struggle with dinner menu ideas & budget restraints for ingredients. So we regularly help them to source ingredients from the Port Macquarie Neighbourhood Centre, then assist with creative menu ideas & shopping lists. We also help with freezing dinners for future weeks.

Here’s some delicious meals they’ve cooked this month, inspired from ingredients on hand & cultures around the world.

*Nasi Gorang - Bali,
*Dijon Pork- France,
*Spicy Sausage Stew- Morocco,
*Green Curry- Thailand,
*Tuna Salad – Mediterranean,
*Fish Pie – Britain
*Pizza- American style
*Bangers & Mash- mum & dad style
**** Bonus - we help with cleaning the mess & washing up dishes too. :)

Supporting a lovely lady on her dream goal - market stand selling her 'diamond art projects' at Cosplay festival in Wauchope today. Starts at 10am. Come check it out!

A great day yesterday at GypsyFalls Retreat Lorne NSW, supporting an NDIS participant to socialise, explore nature, engage with animals & cook Pizza's in the outdoor kitchen!
Highly recommend this retreat :)

Tanya loves sailing with Sailability NSW - Port Macquarie. Over the last month we've assisted her to collect & paint rocks. Today she distributed thank you rocks to the amazing volunteers at Sailability.
* 'Project thank you' complete!
*Giving back - joy, happiness & smiles. :)

Happy Easter.
Check out these awesome Easter Baskets & Bunny Moulds decorated by some of the creative people we supported this week.

We also offer employment support as one of our services & couldn't agree more. :)
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"I would like to see people with disabilities have the opportunity to showcase their skills in paid employment."

We love this advocacy message from Melissa Kirkman 🙌

The South Australian entrepreneur of Kirkman by Melissa Kirkman has worked very hard to become a successful artist, and with the right supports has grown a successful business selling her designs.

People with Down syndrome want to work for the same reasons as everyone else – so that they can be independent, contribute to society, earn their own money, learn new skills, meet new people, and feel valued.

Attended Ed Sheeran concert in Sydney last night & helped fulfil a goal & bring joy & happiness to a very special NDIS participant. Ed was amazing!

HCAS would love to give back to somebody in need. Free walker (Excess to our needs. In very good used condition).
If anyone in the Hastings area could use a free walker pls send a message or comment below.
Pick up Port Macquarie.

Another great week supporting participants. **Christmas craft, Christmas cooking, fun outings outdoors such as visiting horses, outdoor Christmas concert & going sailing. Tis the season.

This week HCAS is supporting an NDIS participant on a trip to Sydney. Lots of smiles sightseeing.

We love supporting NDIS participants with their goals & building capacity with daily living/chore committments. This month with our support the below tasks were no longer overwhelming or a burden for participants we support. :)

*Problem solving, *budgeting, *paying bills, *meal planning, *grocery shopping, *cleaning out the fridge, *doing laundry & hanging it out, *putting fresh linen on the bed, *making & attending gp & allied health appointments, *picking up medication scripts from chemist, *unpacking boxes, *putting together flat packs, *sorting out issues at centrelink, *searching for something online, *organising delivery of goods, *sorting out & filing paperwork, sorting old clothes to donate to charity and organising a rubbish tip run.

We also 'prioritise' time for a break, a laugh & refreshments.

Fun ways we supported participants with their mental health this month.
Scenic walks & day trips, mindfulness meditation, outdoor cafes, koala trail, ten pin bowls, hydro golf, healthy meal prep, baking, relaxing by the water, music, time with animals, journaling, art & craft projects.

So many things to be thankful for in Australia.

They say work hard & play hard! *Received an award last night, 'Outstanding Senior Clubperson 2022' for volunteer work at my daughters netball club. A surprise visit
from club president who presented me with the award.