A project being developed by the YMCA and Wendouree West Renewal with assistance from the Ballarat Community Health Centre and the Wendouree West Community House.  The project has been funded by Primary Care Partnership and will serve as a template for other Communities in the future.

Building Strong People is all about engaging resident's over the age of 55 in activity - both physical and social - and sometimes both at the same time!  In order to find out what the community wanted and/or needed - a team of four Wendouree residents was chosen via an application process.  Three members Mavis, Adrian and Yvette work on the project under the direction of the YMCA’s Karina Matthews.

 A *survey* in the guise of a good natured short chat was developed under the tutelage of Carli Lamb at BHCS and thus armed, the team went door knocking to find out what it was that residents aged 55 and over would like to be able to do. There was an excellent response rate among the residents in the 55+ age range.  The data has now been entered into a database and concise results are being tabulated.