Pole Depot Carers Support Service is a Home and Community Care Project funded under the NSW Department of Human Services, Ageing, Disability and Home Care and provides information, referral, counselling, advocacy and support for carers of persons with disability, dementing illness, or problems of frail age.

Our service aims:

• to provide information, advocacy, referral and counselling for carers.
• to validate the work of carers and their families.
• to provide opportunities for carers to offer each other emotional support and practical help.
• to encourage carers to recognise their own needs.
• to provide information on specific disabilities/illnesses and services to assist carers and the people they care for.
• in all activities, to be sensitive to cultural, language and family issues in providing care.

Over the last decade, the Service has developed extensively for carers.