Community Visitors Scheme
The Community Visitors Scheme (CVS) is an initiative of the Australian Federal Government, managed by the Department of Health and Ageing. The target group of the CVS is isolated residents of aged care homes whose quality of life would be improved by the friendship and companionship achieved by having volunteers visit them on a one-to-one basis in aged care facilities.
Since 1990 Queensland Community Care Network along with a number of other organisations has been funded to manage the Community Visitors Scheme in Queensland.
Read more about this topic: Queensland Community Care Network
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