Why Support The Deaf Lottery
Ensuring Services that Empower the Deaf Community
With your support, we expanded our interpreter workforce to over 450 interpreters across every state and territory, we hosted community events with over 4,000 attendees, we supported over 6,500 students to learn Auslan, and we continued our collaboration with federal and state governments to advocate for equality.
Our mission to ensure access to Auslan also made significant progress for Deaf seniors last year. With your support, we expanded the ‘Ageing Well’ program, which provides home care services to Deaf seniors. Ageing Well is now available in Western Australia and Victoria, alongside its existing operations in Queensland, New South Wales, the Australian Capital Territory, and South Australia.
None of this would have been possible without the generosity of dedicated lottery supporters like you. Here’s to changing even more lives in 2025.
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Our mentors are Deaf adults with specialised training in early childhood development. They are matched with families and focus on first language acquisition, behaviours, social skills, and culture.
These critical skills form responsive parent-child relationships which are not just essential for brain development but for developing positive relationships as the deaf child navigates the world.
Did you know that 1 in 6 Australians live with some form of hearing loss?
The Deaf Lottery is the fundraising arm of Deaf Connect. Deaf Connect is the largest provider of support services to the Deaf, deafblind and hard of hearing community in Australia, committed to empowering Deaf and hard of hearing individuals and families, ensuring they are connected and assisting them to achieve their goals.
Deaf Connect is focused on our commitment to community, leadership, innovation and culture. Supported by Deaf Lottery, we aim to:
- Work with individuals and the community to understand and meet their needs.
- Drive improvements and new opportunities aligned with our Mission and enhancing our sustainability.
- Develop our influence and position to enhance the capacity of the Deaf community.
- Enable organisational capability, capacity and readiness.
Your support makes a difference
Deaf Connect continues to deliver for the community through early childhood intervention and therapy, information and advocacy, life skills development, accredited Auslan courses, aged care, and as a registered service provider under the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS), and an approved provider of home care for seniors.
Your support allows us to continue to grow, innovate and deliver a greater range of services and programs where they are needed most.
Deaf Connect works with all Australians to create a more inclusive, accessible and equitable community through information, advocacy and education.
In 2022, thanks to the ongoing support of Deaf Lottery, Deaf Connect was able to achieve the following:
- 532 hours of grant funded Community Access service provision
- An average of 223 participants received Therapy and Family Services monthly
- 786 people received Auslan Qualifications
- 23,891 total interpreter bookings delivered with 1,181 interpreter bookings delivered through the free seniors interpreting program
- Delivered 37,255 hours of interpreting, including providing interpreters for over 1,000 COVID-19 press conferences
- The Let’s Connect roadshow travelled to 13 cities to connect with community
- Delivered 50,799 hours of support work
- 2,139 people in our Community Auslan classes