Teams and Centres
Fusion’s services focus on community building, finding a sense of purpose and a Christian values base. Fusion was founded in Australia by Mal Garvin, who retired in 2009. Fusion has over 200 staff and thousands of volunteers in 25 centres around Australia, and overseas work in the United Kingdom, Germany, Albania, Canada, Greece, India, Indonesia, South Africa, Nigeria, Ghana and the Caribbean.
Fusion's centres are established in response to research of local needs. In Australia this has led Fusion into outreach and support services such as drop-in centres and youth cafes, lunchtime programs in schools, accommodation and dwelling programs for youth and families, arts and crafts and social activities for isolated women, parenting programs for young single parents, mentoring and other special programs for teenagers who are not fitting into the school system, employment training schemes, outdoor education programs, community festivals designed to build connection in fragmented towns and suburbs, vocational rehabilitation, radio and print media and contributing to social policy development and action.
The village of Poatina, Tasmania, near Longford and about 70 km from Launceston is a community which blends together permanent residents, students and young people in need. Established as a tourist resort with a motel and restaurant at its heart, Poatina is also the international headquarters of Fusion and the main training centre.
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