What we do

In the 1940s a group of courageous Baptist women joined together and raised £4,000 – in a time of war. The funds were used to open Australia’s first Baptist nursing home for nine frail older people in 1945.

Today Baptcare shares the same determined spirit of its founders. We proactively respond to human need by providing care to older people, children, families, people with a disability, financially disadvantaged people and asylum seekers.

Today Baptcare has a broad vision of community participation and envisions a future where we engage with the world by taking a critical, analytical, flexible and creative approach to identifying and responding to human need. We are committed to addressing significant, emerging and chronic conditions within the community, particularly issues which concern the marginalised and the disadvantaged.

Our services

Baptcare provides a range of services and programs from over 30 locations across Victoria and Tasmania, including:
-Residential aged care services for older people
-Retirement units for older people
-Affordable housing
-Supported transitional housing for asylum seekers
-In-home support for older people living at home
-Foster care
-Family and children’s services
-Disability services
-Assistance for Baptist churches to address disadvantage at a local level
-Health care services for the homeless
-Pastoral care support
-Advance Care Planning
-Volunteering.