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Victoria was asked to manage Coffee Potts Café and a salon within the new Langwarrin Community Aged Care complex.

Social Enterprises’ purpose is to create successful businesses, whose profits are reinvested to enhance MiLife-Victoria’s disability services. At the same time, these businesses provide training and work experience opportunities to National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) participants. As we know, disability activities continue to be woefully under-funded and the organisation needs to subsidise the NDIS income to ensure that we provide the highest quality support.

So much has changed in 12 months and I’d like to take this opportunity to thank you for taking the journey with us. Thank you also to the MiLife-Victoria staff and Board of Management for making the transition to new leadership smooth and for bearing with me while I ask 1,001 questions. I have loved every minute of it.

It is a privilege to work with such talented, caring and dedicated people and I look forward to working with each and every staff member to continue to grow our organisation and do what we do best: support our fantastic and aweinspiring clients to continue to flourish and reach their goals.

Please take the time to read over the rest of the report to find out more about the wonderful achievements we’ve had, and enjoy the successes of the last year.

Amanda Youngs

CEO, MiLife-Victoria.

President’s Report

Once again, we have experienced another extremely challenging year. If we have learned anything over the last two years it is that we cannot stand still, we must adapt to the situation at hand and run with it.

I’m very proud of the way the Board, Management Team and staff have been able to overcome some of the biggest challenges we have ever had to deal with. Being flexible in the way we operate, and easily adapting to change has seen the organisation continue to provide quality services to clients despite environmental circumstances.

Throughout the pandemic the Board has continued to focus on imparting guidance to the organisation while looking for new opportunities for clients.

The Board has provided strategic direction to the Management Team while keeping clients and the organisation’s core purpose at the centre of all decisions.

In the midst of the pandemic we’ve sadly said goodbye to MiLife-Victoria’s founding CEO, Terri Carroll. Terri led the organisation for nearly 30 years, from its early days at PAST (Peninsula Access Support and Training) to become the organisation it is today.

On behalf of the Board I’d like to extend our deep appreciation and gratitude to our inaugural CEO, Terri Carroll, for her leadership, dedication and passion over the years. We wish her the all very best in her retirement.

During the last year we also farewelled Chief Financial Officer, Ross Mackay, and Chief Operations Officer, Kath Moodie. I’d like to take this opportunity to thank both of these people for their work and dedication over the years to continue to improve the organisation and deliver valuable opportunities to the clients.

In May we welcomed a new Chief Executive Officer, Amanda Youngs, to take the reins. Amanda comes to the organisation after commencing her career in disability services in 2004. Her law degree, coupled with her vast experience across various government and non-government organisations, has led her in good stead to providing valuable leadership as MiLife-Victoria’s second CEO.

The organisation also welcomed Marisol Gormaz as Chief Financial Officer. Marisol has many years of experience in similar roles across a variety of sectors and is a huge asset, assisting the organisation to maintain strong financial stability.