Collective Support began in August 2008. The idea for such a bold business concept came from 2 people trying to get life right and the realization that help in many ways is harder to find than you may think. Though trying to navigate the insecurities and overcoming the hardships a relationship and life sometimes may bring, Nic and Rob stood back and looked at the whole situation from outside the Box. Discovering that there are many useful and helpful ideas and tools, but trying to get them all together was not easy.
So the main goal for Collective Support was to bring as much help and support together and make it easier for other people than what they went through. And that is what has now transformed through this website. A central community that is there for you and there for you to help others as well.
Collective Support has been a Western Australian project, with a fantastic design team in Loconut in Subiaco and Norbic Industries Pty Ltd in Bunbury.
As Collective Support, our objective is to build an Australian, web based (individual niche) support community, which incorporates such help facets as; forums, mentor programs, subject based bookstore and a web based video face to face counselling office.
Our vision is to:
Nichola Hartwell
Norbic Industries Pty Ltd
Collective Support .com.au
Robert Martin
I am a 38 year old man with 4 fantastic children. I have a passion to help others get through the struggles life may throw up sometimes. I have worked in Sales and Marketing for 17 years in Western Australia and now reside in the south west of the state.
In today’s current environment, the need for social and mental help is becoming harder to locate and access. With the downturn in Australia’s economy, there will also be a greater stress placed on Mental and Social Health resources, and communities in general.
At all levels of government, current political policies have been identified as having major inadequacies in the resourcing and expenditure of Mental Health and Social Services Portfolios. All budgeted services are now being reassessed and funding requirements over the next 10 years is expected to increase dramatically. Government alone cannot be expected to accommodate the massive increase in resources required.
The trend of people to access the internet is growing rapidly; especially with the onset of Web 2.0, social interaction based sites such as Facebook, Skype and YouTube; which now have unprecedented memberships and usage.
The onset of ‘one person removed communication media’ is becoming widely acceptable and a natural progression of this is into the field of social and mental health. Many studies show that clients are more likely to be honest and open in their communications online. Feeling more relaxed to do so without face to face scrutiny.
Rapidly advancing, affordable, home technologies are giving advancements in all areas of home communications; and along with a younger new generation who consider these communications normal; gives Collective Support a massive emerging market.
This opportunity will now give professionals an ability to contact wide reaching demographics from remote rural to major urban centres without the need to relocate.