Dubbo Wellington Narromine Trangie

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A Word from Riki:  

Recently we found out that the Australian Government has acknowledged the success of Communities for Children and provided funding to June 2012. This is wonderful news for everyone involved with Communities for Children across Australia and especially for us here and our local activities.

 

It is a very exciting time for us, as we close the first chapter of our Communities for Children Journey and begin to prepare for the next.

 

Personally this gives me the gift of a further three years in a job I love. For all of you, it means continued access to important services and I hope new opportunities as our target group increases from families with children 0-5 years to include families with children 0-12 years.

 

In the first week in July we will getting out to your community and asking what activities we have undertaken which you would like to continue and what new directions we could take. Even those activities that you agree have been a success and should continue on, will have scope for changes to include the new expanded age group.

 

Look below to see when we'll be at a venue near you and take the oppprtunity to have your say, whther you are a serivce provider, parent or community member your opinion is important. If you can't make it to any of the sessions then please call or e-mail me or your local Early Childhood COorindator and have your say, I promise we will take your words to the consultations. (Click on the contact link for our details)

 

Community       Venue                               Day                      Date                     Time

Wellington   Soldiers Club           Thursday        9th July 09      10am-Noon

 

Dubbo         Baptist Church         Thursday        9th July 09      1.30-3.30pm

           

Narromine    USMC                     Friday           10th July 09    10am-Noon

 

Warren        Cultural Centre         Friday           10th July 09     1.30-3.30pm

Keeping Our Kids At Heart Book:

One of our most recent undertaking has been to pull together stories about our activites from paticipants celebrating the success of the project over the last 3 years. We have chosen to do do this through our Keeping Our Kids At Heart book. 

We have 18 stories and each brings a piece of the picture of the Communities for Children journey both through the particpants personal story and their link to Communities for Children and some amazing data snapshots that show how many families we have reached and the number of resources we have provided in our communities of Dubbo Wellingtonadn Narromine Shire.

The book is currently being formated ready to print so we will keep you informed and once complete we will upload some of the pages to the website.

Our Vision:


One of the largest of 45 Communities for Children Sites across Australia, we are proud of all that we have achieved since we began in 2005. 

Our Vision

Our vision is that children and families living in Dubbo, Narromine, Trangie and Wellington will be better connected, supported and celebrated.

As the facilitating Partner, Centacare includes a project team of three: Jenny Slack-Smith as Researcher and Project Support, Alicia Powell as Aboriginal Community worker and myself, Riki Price as the Project Manager. This team oversees the whole initiative and keeps in close contact with each of the Community Partners contracted to provide the activities.

 

Click on your town in the heading above and have a look at what Communities for Children is doing in your town.

Transition to School Campaign 2009

Star FM is again helping us promote the message to families - 'that the journey to school starts at home'.

We have just finished recording the voices of young preschoolers for a series of new community announcements that will be broadcast on Star FM to promote the Transition To School Campaign.

This campaign involves the publishing of a colourful, fully illustrated poster, by Melbourne Artist, Emma Stuart that is currently being distributed by our CfC coordinators in our communities.

We are now waiting confirmation of a keynote speaker to launch the campaign in Dubbo.

You might already have noticed the colourful artwork on the side of two new Dubbo school buses that illustrates the different child's early learning stages through using  the evolution of a baby tadpole, that grows into a frog and jumps into school. Family Day Care Centres, Play Groups and PreSchools are all included in the different development stages of the tadpole.

The campaign has been developed by Bravo Marketing By Design, the creative agency also responsible for the Kids at Heart PRcampaign and Festival last year including the design and development of this website.

The campaign has been developed in collaboration with the Transition to School Committee, and professionally executed by Bravo. For further information, contact chair of the Transition to School Committee, Riki Price, Project Manager, Centacare's Communities for Children.


Supported by Star FM

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