About Us

The CatholicCare Story

Name: Catholic Care Social Services
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As the social services agency of the Catholic Diocese of Toowoomba, CatholicCare provides a range of services to promote individual, family and community wellbeing.

From humble beginnings in 1983 of lunchtime counselling sessions conducted by volunteer workers, CatholicCare now employs approximately 50 staff and over 170 volunteers that service an area of nearly 500,000km² in Southwest Queensland.

Services include the Family Support Program (Counselling, Education and Family Dispute Resolution), Toowoomba Refugee and Migrant Support (TRAMS), Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples Service, and Mental Health Services (including Partners in Recovery).

Read our 2020-2023 Strategy

Our mission is to empower individuals, families and communities to meet the challenges of life and relationships.

Values

Our values inform the way that our people relate to the community, to those we serve and to each other:

Compassion | Respect | Integrity | Justice | Hope

Our Strategy

Over the next three years, we will build on the success and growth accomplished in our operational maturity with the
following four strategic commitments. This approach affords a framework for evaluating the impact and success of our
efforts over time in a demanding and ever-changing environment. Each of these strategic commitments will be delivered
and measured through a variety of activities, plans and reports.

• Work Together

Working together to seek feedback, consult and collaborate with stakeholders.

• Transform

Transform models of service delivery to be fit for purpose and financially viable, especially in smaller towns.

• Outcomes Focused

Service delivery being outcome focused with impact identified and communicated.

• Excellence

Being explicit in our planning and deliberate in our pursuit of excellence.

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Counselling

FDR/Mediation

TRAMS

Indigenous Services

We are honoured to be on the ancestral lands of the traditional custodians of this area, the Giabul, and Jarowair peoples. In keeping with CatholicCare’s spirit of reconciliation and respect, we understand that these groups have occupied and cared for this land over countless generations and we celebrate the continuing contribution of these communities to the life of this region. We also recognize and respect those emerging leaders who now claim Australia as their new home.