Interagency expo success

POSITIVE feedback from Balranald’s first-ever interagency Services Expo has seen
the event hailed a success.

Despite the small size of the town, more than 80
service exhibitors and local residents came through the doors on the day.

Put
together by Balranald Interagency Network, Balranald Shire Council and Families
NSW, it centred on putting residents in direct contact with the interagency
services available to them in the Balranald Shire.

Balranald Shire Council
mayor and Interagency chair Steve O’Halloran said it was the “first time he’d
seen such a display” of what a local community can offer their residents.

“I
think part of the problem is that people don’t know what services are
available,” he said.

“It’s extremely important, it gave us an understanding
of just what services are available in the Shire.”

For more of this story, see Wednesday’s Guardian (July 3).