Euroa Care

15/10/2026

Tuesday Cooking Program 🍳 What a delicious day in the kitchen!

Our participants started the morning by cooking their own breakfasts, with omelettes and fried eggs made with growing independence and confidence.

Then it was time for the big cook-up:
Homemade butter chicken
Naan bread, rolled and fried from scratch
Chicken nuggets, minced, shaped and crumbed by hand
Fluffy rice
Apple crumble slice for dessert

Along the way, everyone practised real-life kitchen skills: measuring, mixing, peeling, safe knife skills, using kitchen appliances, and food hygiene. After lunch the team pitched in to clean up by scrubbing benches, organising cupboards, vacuuming and taking out the rubbish. 🧽

We finished the day planning food and activities for this weekend, with everyone sharing their ideas. Bring on the disco on Saturday night! 👏

15/10/2026

This Saturday! 🎉

There’s still time to grab your spot at our House Party at Breakaway!

📅 Saturday 17 October
🕔 5pm – 9pm

Bring your group or come on your own. Everyone’s welcome, and you’ll leave with new friends. 💙

📞 Call 1300 207 419 or email [email protected] to book in.

See you there! 🕺💃

Saturday night plans? Sorted! ✅

We're hosting a House Party at Breakaway House on Saturday 17 October, 5pm to 9pm. Music, food, dancing and a room full of good people.

Come with mates or come solo, you'll leave with new ones. 💙

📲 Call 1300 207 419 or email [email protected] to book your spot!

14/10/2026

The things they do for a pie 🤣 Long drive, torrential rain, but one happy Steve. Ticked off the TikTok-famous pie ✅🥧

14/10/2026

📣 Join our team: Disability Support Worker (1:1 In-Home Support, Casual)

Euroa Care is looking for someone to provide consistent, compassionate care to our clients. Open availability required (mornings, afternoons, evenings and sleepovers).

Requirements:
Cert III in Individual Support (or equivalent)
Experience with hoists, transfers and personal care
First Aid & CPR, plus medication and manual handling training (desirable)
NDIS Worker Screening Check and Police Check
Driver’s licence and insured car

📩 Send your CV to [email protected]

13/10/2026

Ever wanted to try rugby league? 🏉

NRL x Abilities Unleashed is a free come-and-try day to explore local adaptive NRL opportunities. Participants will be led by specialised coaches, with support from students and community organisations.

📅 Tuesday, October 27, 2026
🕙 10:00 am to 1:00 pm
📍 Beaton Park Leisure Centre, 37 Foley St, Gwynneville NSW 2500

Places are expected to fill quickly, so call or email us and we’ll register you!
📞 1300 207 419
📧 [email protected]

🔗 Read more here: https://www.abilitiesunleashed.com.au/events/nrl-x-abilities-unleashed-wollongong-1

Image credit: Disability Sports Australia

12/10/2026

Happy birthday Sarah! 🎂 Today’s cooking program was her birthday celebration and Sarah picked the Wiggles theme and the menu, which was roast chicken with roasted vegetables and a chocolate mud cake!

Everyone helped set up the decorations, prepare the roast and ice the cake. After lunch, the team danced and played party games. Thank you to everyone who helped make it a great day for Sarah 💙💚

12/10/2026

Last Saturday’s cooking program at Breakaway was a good one! Kayla jumped straight in, chopping the chicken, peeling the sweet potatoes and cooking down the onion, spices, garlic and ginger for a chicken curry. When it came time to taste it, Kayla worked out what it needed, added the salt herself, and it made a big difference. 🍛

Next up was a baked corned beef and spinach dish with coconut milk, which Kayla mixed and poured over a base layer of spinach before we topped it with more spinach and popped it in the oven. We served it all with rice, and the chicken curry was the winner by a mile. We even squeezed in a chocolate cake for a birthday next week before washing up, packing the food away and locking up. Great cooking, great teamwork and one very happy kitchen. 💙

12/10/2026

One of our clients brought a load of bottles and cans back from Wellington and wanted to wipe them all down. Our support worker, James, put sunscreen on him, helped him into his gloves and walked outside with him. The client picked the music on his iPad; they each took a bag and wiped away together. He chose the activity, and our support worker made sure he was safe, comfortable and ready to do it. Well done, gentlemen! 👏🏻👏🏻

Note: Client’s face has been blurred out for privacy.

10/10/2026

It's National Carers Week 🤝🏻

Behind so many of us is someone who shows up every day, no questions asked. A parent, partner, sibling, kid or friend who looks after someone they love. More than 2.6 million Australians do this, and we are so grateful for every one of them.

At Euroa Care, we feel that gratitude every day. To the families of our participants, thank you for trusting us to be part of your loved one's life. You were their first supporters and you are the heart of everything we do. To our support workers, thank you for the patience, kindness and dedication you bring to your work. And to the families who stand behind our team, thank you for sharing them with us, for the late shifts, the missed dinners and the constant encouragement. Our own families are carers too, in their own way.

From all of us at Euroa Care, thank you. We see you, we appreciate you and we are so thankful for everything you do 💙💚

09/10/2026

Life feels like a lot for plenty of people right now, and we see how much it weighs on the people we support and the people we work with.

This year's theme for Mental Health Month and World Mental Health Day (October 10) is Together We Thrive, and there's a reason for it. Global conflict, rising costs and constant change are leaving many of us overwhelmed and disconnected, and it's taking a toll. But what we need hasn't changed. We all want to feel safe, understood and that we matter. Connection is one of the strongest ways to get there, and it usually starts small. A check-in text. A proper "how are you going?" where you stick around for the answer. A cuppa for someone who's had a rough day.

Thriving together also means making sure everyone has a seat at the table. World Health Organization says people with lived experience of mental health conditions are experts in what actually helps, yet they're too often asked to share their story and then left out of the decisions. Their latest Mental Health Atlas shows how far we still have to go. Only 45% of countries have ongoing collaboration with people with lived experience and family or carer groups in their services, and only 37% include them in training for primary health care workers. Just 9% of countries have fully moved from institutional care to community-based care, while 49% of psychiatric admissions are involuntary and almost one in four hospital stays lasts over a year.

That's not what together looks like. People deserve to live with dignity, make their own choices and stay connected to their families and communities. We're determined to keep building a community where that's the standard, and to see services built with people, not just for them.

So who will you check in on this week? And if you're the one struggling, please reach out to someone you trust, your GP, Lifeline on 13 11 14 or Beyond Blue on 1300 22 4636. You don't have to do it alone. 💙💚

Sharing these beautiful images from Mental Health Australia (www.mentalhealthaustralia.org.au), the source of this year's Mental Health Month visuals.