We operate many different services from the Otherway Centre.
Advice and Referral take place both at the Centre, on phone, in prisons and in homes. This covers a huge range of issues from family and domestic violence to financial and budgetary advice.
Daily Drop-In Service: Between 40 and 70 Indigenous, homeless and vulnerable people "drop-in" at the Centre for a chat and a cuppa every day. They are provided with food when we have it and are supported with advice and referral when required.
Many families are visited across the Adelaide metropolitan area. Br John McGee does wonderful work in this area of family visitation.
Workers and chaplain visit hospitals and aged care centres to see Indigenous residents.
The Ministry is approved by the Department for Correctional Services as a Community Service Provider. This enables many Indigenous and non-Indigenous people to pay their fines with community work rather than in prison.
Otherway E-News, an Indigenous Community Email Newsletter in Adelaide, is produced at the Centre and circulated to more than 900 Aboriginal and other interested organisations and individuals. The Ministry has produced a newsletter (first in hard copy and now by email) for the past 20 years.
The Otherway Centre is a place which many different Indigenous and many other vulnerable and homeless people, as well as Afghani refugees, know and love. They speak of this Centre as being a safe and welcoming place for everyone, a holy place, a special place for all people.
We have tried to meet all of these people were they are in their lives and we have tried to support them in a tremendous range of needs: spiritual, material, family, educational and cultural.
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