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»» In late 2016, our Central Coast team renewed their Memorandum of Understanding
Regional highlights with Northern Settlement Services, extending the dedicated hours that Multi Skilled
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Our Central & Far West team joined forces with Orange City Council to run the Designing Futures program. Incorporating 45 Aboriginal
girls aged nine to 15, the program aims to build resilience in the students and teach life skills and social etiquette, while linking back to education through some of our school programs( Bullying Awareness, Cybersafe Teens, Minding Me and Moving Into The Teen Years).
The Designing Futures participants created a music video for their original song‘ No Broken Dreams’. Watch it here: goo. gl / Ai8dYa
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In May 2017, our Central & Far West team ran three sessions of Let’ s Have A Yarn With Yarn for breakthru, an organisation that assists people with disabilities to find employment. At this time, breakthru had a number of clients who were experiencing relationship challenges, so the‘ yarn’ focused on ways to have positive relationships with family, friends, carers, colleagues and social media. In addition, they identified the differences between appropriate and inappropriate language and behaviour, looked at rules in relationships, and spoke about ways to work through relationship breakdowns.
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Practitioner Jan Bayliss spends working with clients from a culturally and linguistically diverse( CALD) background. This work includes counselling, delivering group programs, and involvement in joint agency projects such as developing specialised resources for the local CALD community.
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Our Family Mental Health Support Service( CONNECT) was funded to employ a Child and Family Worker to work with families arriving under the Australian Government’ s Humanitarian Entrants Program. Our Central Coast team was able to locate Megan Price at the Northern Settlement Services office in Newcastle to facilitate our support of this specific client community.
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The success of our collaboration with headspace Gosford led to Children & Young People’ s Mental Health( CYPMH), an initiative of the Central Coast Local Health District, approaching our Central Coast team about joint work. We now have a three-way partnership. Over the year, an integrated intake process for our service delivery has been developed, utilising headspace and CYPMH staff in the collaborative process. We have presented at a number of team training and development days, and our staff share office space with their Youth Assessment Team.
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Over the six months from June 2016, more than 1500 local primary-school children attended presentations by one of our Aboriginal Community Development Workers on local Aboriginal history and culture.
An Aboriginal smoking ceremony run by Stuart McMinn( far right).
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