CROSB: CROSB Activities
Community Respite Options South Burnett (CROSB)
CROSB has experienced a steady rate of growth with many new families moving to the area and more people becoming aware of the services offered through SBCTC.
Over the past year, CROSB has provided 14,928 hours of support to 104 clients. Services are provided via in-home respite, CROSB House, community access, and support group activities.
Services are provided throughout the whole of the South Burnett including Blackbutt, Goomeri, Tansey and Proston. CROSB currently has a waiting list of 32 clients.
CROSB continues to provide a flexible and responsive respite service to people of the South Burnett through recurrent annual funding from Department of Communities (Disability Services) and is fast becoming a service of choice for individually funded clients and brokerage services alike. It continues to receive an increasing number of requests for services from individuals and referrals from organisations such as CCRC, Centacare and the South Burnett Senior Citizens Association.
CROSB continues to apply for funding to provide for the unmet demand and has recently been granted additional recurrent funding from the Department of Communities (Disability Services) to provide In-Home Accommodation Services. This funding will allow us to assist individuals to live independently in their own homes and to provide respite to families with school-age children during the January school holidays.
The School Holiday Program activities were many and varied to accommodate the diverse needs of these groups. Activities included craft, cooking and ball games at CROSB House, trips to the cinema, tenpin bowling, mini putt-putt golf and a trip to the Maidenwell Observatory and the CTC Sumo Challenge.
CROSB offers support groups to both men & women, due to the increasing numbers attending the Men’s group. CROSB is providing two groups to the men; a younger group and a mature group.
All groups are well attended, accessing venues in the Kingaroy area. Over the past year, CROSB groups have enjoyed a number of activities including lawn bowls, barbecues, cinema trips, jewellery making, and dinner and movie nights at CROSB House (see below). 
Due to the continue growth of CROSB, we have outgrown our current office space. Currently we are in the process of joining Shed 3 & 4 together at the South Burnett Enterprise Centre. This will allow us to provide on site training and meetings facilities for the community and improved working conditions for staff.