Our Vision

Our vision is to unite with our whole community, to participate in informed, vigorous and constructive discussion, to discover new and better ways to provide coordinated, well resourced and comprehensive services to satisfy the diverse and changing needs and preferences of clients, staff and the community to create a fair, just and caring society.

Our Values

We are committed to providing services which:

• are well planned, accountable and efficient;
• are professional and of a high quality;
• are based on the needs of the local community, and responsive to changes in those needs;
• are affordable to our target groups
• compliment, rather then duplicate, existing services in the local area.

About Us

Manning Support Services Inc. (MSS) is a not-for-profit community based organisation which has been operating for over 20 years in the Greater Taree, Gloucester, Great Lakes and Port Macquarie-Hastings local government areas while being a registered charity under the Chartitable Collections Act 1934 and is recognised as a public benevolent institution which is headed by a volunteer Board of Management.

MSS is a support network established to enhance the quality of people's lives.  We provide services to:

• Frail older people who are living at home and are at risk of premature or inappropriate institutionalisation,

• Younger people with disabilities who are living at home and are at risk of premature or inappropriate institutionalisation,

• People with a dementing illness,

• The carers of the above three (3) groups,

• Families with dependant children,

• Individuals who are experiencing stressful events or are in crisis, and their families,

• Young parents, 15 to 25 years old requiring social opportunity and support,

• Residents of aged care homes who receive little meaningful social contact,

• Men in family relationships with dependant children, and

• Volunteers and community based organisations using volunteers

Joining the Team

See our Joining the Team section for more info on positions vacant and membership!

What's Going On?

• The Support Post January 2011
• The Support Post December 2010
• Annual Report 2011
• Strategic Plan
• AGM Agenda 2011

Contact Us Now

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