Who We Are
On Monday 2nd July, 2001 staff of the new organisation, Community Vision assembled for the first time in its leased offices on the 2nd floor of the City of Joondalup Administration Building at 90 Boas Ave. However, the genesis of the new organisation dated back to 8th August, 2000 when the City of Joondalup Council was asked by the City's Community Services Directorate to consider a proposal for a change in role for the City's human service delivery model.
The City's involvement in the delivery of community services arose from the absence of non-government service providers in the northern suburbs during the City's rapid development. It was argued that the City's future role was better suited to community development and that significant benefits for service recipients would accrue from a transfer of service provision to a not for profit, community-based agency.
The City of Joondalup Council endorsed a consultation process on the proposal and the community’s view on the change in role was subsequently sought. The views of most people, including the staff already working in the human service delivery units of the City, were that there were significant benefits to establishing a community-based, non-government organisation to deliver human services. The benefits included:
A small service focused agency would provide;
- Community ownership and participation;
- Opportunities for entrepreneurship;
- Greater capacity for growth and development as an incorporated not-for-profit agency;
- Flexibility in service provision and staffing arrangements; and
- Reduced need for resources to meet government process requirements and therefore a more efficient use of dollars to meet community service needs.
Both State and Commonwealth Government bodies also indicated their eagerness to see a new community-based organisation located in the northern suburbs which would be small enough to be responsive to service users’ needs but large enough to attract additional services to the area.
On 19th December 2000 the Council approved the establishment of a new community based service delivery organisation and the transfer of a number of the community services, that at that time were provided by the City, to the new organisation of Community Vision effective from July 1st 2001.
