Helping older persons to speak up for themselves or speak on your behalf.
What can an advocate do for you?
- Help you to have your views heard and promote your rights
- Listen and discuss your issues or concerns and to clarify them
- Help you to understand and navigate the My Aged Care process
- Discuss options to resolve problems
- Support you to speak up for yourself or speak on your behalf
- Support includes your family, carers, and support networks
- Support you with completing enduring powers of attorney
Advocacy is free service that is available for older residents of the Alpine Shire.
How do I get started?
You can contact the service yourself or ask a staff member, family, friend or carer to contact the service on your behalf.
Phone: 0407 142 716 (Monday to Friday between 9.00am - 5.00pm) or
Email: [email protected]
A regular chat to connect people in the Alpine Shire.
Alpine Telechat provides a regular telephone call to people in the Alpine Shire who would benefit from a weekly social chat. The regular call provides social connection and a link to the community.
Alpine Telechat is a free service and people can refer themselves or be referred by a family member, relative or friend, health professional or community service provider.
Alpine Telechat is run by the Alpine Independant Aged Care Advocacy Service Inc. in partnership with the Red Cross.
Get in contact with Alpine Telechat
Phone: 0407 142 716 or
Email: [email protected]
Ovens Arthritis Self Help Group Inc.
President: Norma Torriero | Phone: 03 5750 1309
Vice President: Margaret Dean | Phone: 03 5752 1208
For the active Breast Feeding Support Groups in your area please contact;
Alpine Health - Maternity Services Coordinator - Andrea Herrin
Call 0439 754 019 ( Tuesday to Thursday from 9.00am - 5.00pm)
Email [email protected]
Alpine Shire Council - Maternal and Child Health Service
Call 0417 147 120
Visit www.alpineshire.vic.gov.au
Mutual support and information for men and women with cancer and their families/carers
Upper Kiewa Valley Cancer Support Group
Contact: Trish Dixon
Phone: 03 5754 4123 | 0429 170 365 | [email protected]
Meetings: Mt Beauty Hospital, 3rd Thursday of the month – 10 am
Hume Regional Integrated Cancer Services ( Hume RICS)
Supporting cancer patients, their carers and health professionals in the Border/East Hume Region.
Contact: 02 6064 1533 | [email protected]
Upper Murray Family Care - Carer Support
Support Options delivers the Victorian Support for Carers Program and assists carers who support a person with a disability, dementia, mental illness, chronic health condition, an older person with care needs, or a person in palliative care, and who lives in the Alpine Shire.
Carers Support Group - Myrtleford & Bright (Ovens Valley)
Monthly meetings to support family and friend carers in Myrtleford, Bright and surrounds.
The group is for all carers and provides social opportunities, peer support, information on services and supports and allows carers to speak in a safe and confidential space.
UMFC Ovens Valley Carers Group
Carers Support Group - Mount Beauty & Kiewa Valley
Villa Maria Carer Support
VILLA MARIA coordinates the following programs:
Commonwealth Carer Respite Centre 1800 059 059
Commonwealth Carelink Centre 1800 052 222
Villa Maria - Wangaratta 1300 650 615 | [email protected]
Upper Murray Family Care - Support Options
Support Options assists family and friend carers of people who have dementia through the Victorian Support for Carers Program and in affiliation with specialist dementia services to provide information, support, respite, workshops and events
Upper Kiewa Valley Dementia Support Group - Mt Beauty
- President: Joy O’Connor - Facilitator
- Contact: 0419 225 739 | [email protected]
- Meetings: The Boardroom, Mt Beauty Hospital,
- Time: Every 4th Friday monthly, 1.00-3.00pm
Living with Dementia - 'Coffee Break' - Mt Beauty
Regular get-togethers at the ‘Rose Café’ in the Mt Beauty Neighborhood Centre for small groups of people who are living with dementia and their family caregiver. The group will be for those people who are living at home or in the community.
This is an initiative of Mt Beauty Community and Health Advisory Group (CHAG).
Dementia Australia (formerly Alzheimers Australia)
Come along and meet other people living with diabetes in and around Mt Beauty.
We get together to share information, experiences and knowledge, therefore supporting each other and working together to improve each other's quality of life. We discuss all issues diabetes in a relaxed and casual environment.
For more information please contact:
Tony Coutts | 0427 544 824 | [email protected]
North East Multicultural Association (NEMA) has a number of Multicultural groups in the Alpine Shire who meet on a monthly basis, for social interaction and to discuss health and communication issues.
Contact: Janny Staphorst Bollard - Cultural Liaison Officer
Phone: 03 5721 2090
Email: [email protected]