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Community Housing information bulletin - February 2009
New Southern Queensland team for the Business Development and Innovation Unit
Establishment of the not-for-profit Business Development and Innovation Unit is now well under way with the recent addition of the new Capacity Building and Regional Coordination team for Southern Queensland in late January. Members of the new team are:
- Ms Kristine Abbott, Manager
- Ms Rebecca Hall, Regional Business Development Officer
- Ms Michelle Forbes-Mitchell, Regional Support Officer.
The Business Development and Innovation Unit aims to increase the capability of not-for-profit housing providers to become major providers of social and affordable housing within one social housing system, and to encourage innovation and continuous improvement by providers. The Southern Queensland team, based in Brisbane, is the first of three teams to commence and will be followed by teams in Central Queensland, based in Rockhampton, and Northern Queensland, based in Townsville, later in 2009.
The new teams will have a number of functions including:
- providing support to providers who are undergoing organisational consolidation activities and/or who are aspiring to achieve significant growth over the next two to five years
- convening the new Housing Area Networks and working with them to increase access to training and professional development for not-for-profit housing employees, volunteers and governing bodies; and to enhance organisational capacity, and
- identifying good practice and facilitating connections within the not-for-profit housing sector to enable providers to share information and examples of best practice.
The new teams will work with providers towards ensuring a quality-focussed, consolidated and viable not-for-profit social and affordable housing sector with a trained and skilled workforce. The Housing Area Networks will be used to help develop a not-for-profit community housing sector that maximises opportunities for innovation, continuous quality improvement and good practice.
As an initial point of contact and for further information on the Capacity Building and Regional Coordination Team and its functions, please contact 
communityhousing@housing.qld.gov.au.
Last updated 13 February 2009
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