Flourish Magazine - Winter 2024

THE ONGOING STORY OF REGENCY GREEN

UnitingSA CEO Jenny Hall, Minister for Health and Wellbeing Chris Picton, MP, Community Living Options’ CEO Mel Kabisa and Minister for Human Services Nat Cook

When the former Regency Green Aged Care home closed in 2022, UnitingSA began to look at the best ways to reuse the large site.

Through a partnership with the SA Government and South Australian care provider Community Living Options (CLO), the vacant facility is now providing short-term housing and supported care solutions for NDIS participants - helping solve bed blockage and ramping at SA hospitals.

Participants were previously stranded in hospital – some for as long as 12 months – due to a lack of suitable accommodation.

CLO recently celebrated its first anniversary at the former Regency Green Aged Care

After just one year, the Regency Green initiative has already provided the equivalent of 5000 nights of hospital bed care.

Across the other side of Regency Green is another short-term housing solution. Through collaboration with refugee support agency AMES Australia, the remaining units now provide a temporary home for refugees escaping war-torn countries.

Regency Green has now provided a home for more than 500 refugees from countries like the Ukraine, helping families make a new start in Australia.