Triple Care Farm opens its ‘place of meeting people’

After many years of planning, Triple Care Farm has a new multipurpose facility to help students through their journey at the farm.

Ninety guests, students, staff, volunteers, project personnel and supporters attended the 20 September opening of the Buralga building.

Mission Australia's Triple Care Farm (TCF) has been helping young Australians overcome homelessness, substance abuse, mental illness or acute behavioural problems for more than 20 years.

Buralga's journey began almost four years ago when Triple Care Farm’s management realised that the growing demand for the service, and the increasing diversity within the program, would lead to a critical shortage of space.

The new purpose-built facility serves as a space for workshops, a training area for hospitality students, a reception area for families and carers on their first visit, and a consultation space for assessment interviews.

The name, Buralga, was chosen in honour of the traditional landowners – the Gundungurra. Meaning “place of meeting people” in the local language, Buralga was recommended by Adrian Shafer, a Gundungurra Elder and historical researcher into cultural identity.

Everyone at Triple Care Farm would like to thank the many people who have been involved in the building of Buralga over the past 18 months. The new centre would not be possible without your generous support.

Many thanks to the Project Management team:

Rosemary Smithson CEO of the Property Industry Foundation; Alec Horley, Property Industry Foundation Project Manager; Kirsty Bower and Karl Alderson, who are Project Managers from Turner & Townsend; Nic Skulander, Project Manger from Octavius; Jannine Jackson EO of the Sir David Martin Foundation; Leonie Green: NSW/ACT Community Services Director for Mission Australia; Wendy Hildebrand, Mission Australia Operations Manager; Max Ellet, our National Property Manager and Anika Ekholm, the architect who designed Buralga.