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Riverbank ConnectDownunder
The Condamine at Warrego Farm, Junabee — river gums and reeds along the bank

Riverbank Connect Downunder · Place, kit, and a worker on the bank — not a clinic

Healing through
Country, yarn & connection
— not isolation.

We hold the place and the means so workers and carers can take the men they already support out of the waiting room — onto Country, into a yarn. Bankside is the first program. You keep the patient. We hold the bank.

How we workGet involved

For workers and health services

You keep the patient. We hold the bank.

Riverbank Connect is not a clinic and not a new caseload. You keep the worker, the men, and duty of care. We make the bank ready: a place set up for the day, and non-clinical kit — bait, shirts, the site — as we are able.

You hold

Your patients, your worker, clinical governance and care plans. We do not take clients off the service.

Riverbank Connect holds

The place, the frame, and non-clinical kit the health service does not cover — rods, bait, shirts, a site for the day — as we are able. Each chapter uses its own water and its own clinical partner. The flagship is the living example, not the only bank.

How we fit

A national body. Programs on the water. Local chapters.

Riverbank Connect Downunder holds the place, the kit, and the frame. Bankside is the first program — not the only one that can exist. Driftwood Dreams is the flagship chapter. Clinical care stays with the worker's health service.

The not-for-profit

Riverbank Connect Downunder

Holds the place, the kit, and the frame so a health service is not inventing a campground or a charity. Establishment phase — working toward incorporation. Not a clinic, and not a chapter.

How the day is held

Programs

Bankside is the first program: small groups, yarn, fishing, a worker on the bank. The waiting room is still an appointment. The bank is where the conversation can start. Other programs can follow the same way.

Local crew and water

Chapters

Driftwood Dreams is the flagship chapter — one local crew, one stretch of water. New chapters run Bankside (or another program) on their own river, dam, or coast, with their own health service. Not this farm, and not a national waiting list.

DJ, Will, Matt, and Keno of Driftwood Dreams standing on the bank at Warrego Farm, Junabee

DJ, Will, Matt, and Keno — Driftwood Dreams at Warrego Farm, Junabee.

Flagship today

Will runs Bankside through Driftwood Dreams.

This is the living example — not the whole of Riverbank Connect. Clinical care stays with Carbal Medical Services, which is the flagship's health service, not the NFP. Warrego Farm is the venue, not the health program. Riverbank Connect Downunder covers non-clinical kit on those days as we are able. The next chapter uses its own worker, its own service, and its own water.

How we workGet involvedChapters

Looking to start a region? Start a chapter. Bankside days at the flagship are not a public drop-in.