Social Support

Community Visitors Scheme (CVS)

The Community Visitors Scheme (CVS) is a free service that facilitates friendly social visits for community members who are over 65 and have a Home Care Package or are living in residential care settings. If you're looking for social connection, we can arrange for a volunteer visitor to come to your home or care facility once a week or fortnight.

Our caring CVS volunteers will come to you for a relaxed social visit that can include a chat over tea, listening to music, reading the newspaper, playing card games or enjoying other interests together. We do our best to match you with a volunteer on the basis of shared interests, personality, backgrounds, and language where possible. 

If you're interested in having a volunteer visit you, or you'd like to become a volunteer visitor, click the button below to get in touch with our CVS Co-ordinator. 

The Community Visitors Scheme is an Australian Government Funded Initiative and MCCGC is funded by the Department of Health. 

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I Speak Your Language

I Speak Your Language is a volunteer based cultural support program delivering a free social support phone call to isolated Culturally and Linguistically Diverse (CALD) participants throughout Queensland. The project increases migrant and refugee volunteer participation and builds a sense of belonging while supporting primarily vulnerable isolated non English speakers. 

Participants based anywhere in Queensland receive a friendly phone call (20-30 min) once a week in their native language. Volunteers have to be based on the Gold Coast to make the calls from the Australian Red Cross call centre (Southport). 

Media are talking about us...

• The Senior Magazine article (January 2019), click here.
• Watch the SBS Story - 2018 finalist for the UNAA Media Awards and meet some of our participants and volunteers (March 2018), click here.
• ABC radio (November 2017), click here

Download the flyer in the following languages (contact us for the updated list of languages available) :

• English
• Spanish
• Korean
• Japanese
• Chinese traditional
• French
• Bahasa
• Thai
• Finnish
• Arabic

I Speak Your Language is delivered in partnership with Red Cross Australia.

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