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Animation Project

Organisation: St Vincent de Paul Society
Key activity: Community development and education project in a public housing estate.

Around About

Organisation: Uniting Care Wesley, Port Adelaide (SA)
Key activity: Around About is a specialised 8-week program for preschoolers (3 and 4-year olds) and their families concerned with the transition into childcare, kindergarten or school.

Bilingual Storytimes in the Community

Organisation: Hume City Council through a partnership between Hume Library Service, Hume Family and Childrens Services and the Hume Early Years Partnership
Key activity: Outreach literacy development for children of isolated CALD families.

Breaking Cycles by Building Neighbourhoods

Organisation: Brotherhood of St Laurence
Key activity: The Breaking Cycles by Building Neighbourhood Hubs project aims to develop community hubs where children’s services work together to achieve better outcomes for young children and their families in Hume. The project targets families with young children (0–5 years old)—especially those from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds.

Bridges for African Men and Families

Organisation: Relationships Australia, New Town (Hobart), Tasmania
Key activity: Building service/client relationships and improving service responsiveness to meet the relationships needs of African Tasmanian communities.

The Brimbank Children's Circus Project

Organisation: Westside Circus Incorporated, Fitzroy, Melbourne VIC
Key activity: Provides a series of 10-week circus and literacy workshop programs with parents and children to learn new games, circus activities, performance skills and social skills.

Building Blocks

Organisation: Autism Spectrum (Australia)
Key activity: An early intervention program for children with autism and their families.

Child Care Info Connect

Organisation: Melbourne Citymission
Key activity: Child Care Info Connect is a parent education and support program which operates within child care centres.

Communication Capers - Early Language and Literacy Development

Organisation: Therapy Focus Inc
Key activity: Development of oral language and literacy concepts for preschool children.

Communities for Children Early Childhood Coordinators (ECCs)

Organisation: Centacare Wilcannia-Forbes (Facilitating partner for the Communities for Children - Dubbo, Narromine, Wellington initiative)
Key activity: Coordination and development of early childhood service delivery responses to improve access and utilisation by the local community including Aboriginal children, children with additional needs (and their families).

Connected Families - Strong Communities

Organisation: Anglicare Victoria
Key activity: Connected Families—Strong Communities aims to increase communityawareness that the children of families who work well with the school have better outcomes, and stay at school longer. It is based on partnerships between the school, families and community organisations to improve opportunities and outcomes for young people and their families.

Connecting Young Parents (CYP)

Organisation: Upper Hume Community Health Service
Key activity: Multi-sector, collaborative, early intervention strategy for young parents in rural communities.

Core of Life (COL)

Organisation: Project undertaken by Menzies Inc - Peninsula Health, Frankston (Melbourne) VIC
Key activity: Indigenous pre-parenting primarily life education program aimed at youth aged 14-17 years.

Creating Capable Communities – Keith Street Community House

Organisation: Family Life
Key activity: As part of a holistic response to families experiencing stress and are at risk of family breakdown, the “Keith Street” Community House incorporates a range of programs for parent support, volunteering and social connections. A critical centrepiece is developing informal networks and community connections to facilitate sustainable change for families and improved outcomes for children.

Early Years Language and Literacy Program

Organisation: Upfield and Campbellfield Heights Primary Schools, Broadmeadows Communities for Children (Melbourne, Vic)
Key activity: Oral language sessions.

Fairfield Refugee Nutrition Project

Organisation: The Smith Family & NSW Refugee Health Service
Key activity: Addresses nutrition and food security issues among refugee children and their families who have settled recently in Fairfield NSW.

Families and Schools Together (FAST)

Organisation: NT Christian Schools Association (in partnership with Anglicare NT's East Arnhem Communities for Children)
Key activity: Early intervention/prevention program to strengthen family functioning and build protective factors in children.

Family's Journey: Parent Resource Program

Organisation: St Joseph's Family Services, Port Macquarie (NSW)
Key activity: A coordinated parent/carer support program to reduce isolation, strengthen and build parenting and relationship skills and support networks.

FamilyZone Ingle Farm

Organisation: Salvation Army, Ingle Farm, SA
Key activity: Service Hub—Integrated service delivery through co-location and coordination of early childhood and family services.

Frankston Community Kitchens

Organisation: Frankston Community Health Service
Key activity: The aim is to build a sense of community and to improve the physical and mental health of participants through promoting healthy eating, learning how to plan, cook and share nutritious low-cost meals and fostering social inclusion.

Healthy Start: A national strategy for children of parents with learning difficulties

Organisation: Australian Supported Parenting Consortium - Parenting Research Centre (lead agency) and the University of Sydney
Key activity: Supports parents with learning difficulties.

Hobsons Bay Young Parents Group

Organisation: Melbourne Citymission
Key activity: Young parent support and education.

Home Interaction Program for Parents and Youngsters (HIPPY)

Organisation: Circular Head Rural Health Services, Smithton (Tasmania)
Key activity: A home-based, early childhood program for pre-school children aimed at building parental strengths so their child can start school with a positive attitude.

Immunisation story time

Organisation: Frankston Library Service (Melbourne, VIC)
Key activity: Collaborative partnerships to engage 'hard to reach' families in early literacy activities. (i.e. Immunisation of chldn at the health clinic is used as a "stepping stone" to introduce families to reading and books).

Interactive CALD Parents' Support Services

Organisation: Holroyd Parramatta Migrant Services, Toongabbie, NSW
Key activity: Assisting parents and children from minority refugee and migrant backgrounds to access social, recreational, training, employment and community linkage activities.

It Takes a Village (ITAV)

Organisation: Lower Mountains Family Support Service, Blaxland, NSW
Key activity: A mentoring and training program to strengthen the capacity of children's service workers to respond to vulnerable children/families.

KU early language and literacy Initiative (KU ELLI)

Organisation: KU Children's Services (formerly known as the Kindergarten Union of New South Wales), Sydney, NSW
Key activity: Augmenting the knowledge and skills of early childhood staff to foster children"s language and literacy development in low-income families.

Little Engines - Intensive supported play group

Organisation: Uniting Care Wesley Adelaide (facilitating partner), Centacare (community partner)
Key activity: Little Engines Early Childhood Education professionals act as co-workers and mentors for staff from community agencies to increase their capacity to offer free supported playgroups for disadvantaged children 0-5 years. The playgroup model includes a community development focus that offers families access to a wide range of services through co-worker/co-facilitator partnerships with local social workers, health professionals and other support workers providing extensive support to families.

Library has legs

Organisation: Casey-Cardinia Library Corporation (Melbourne, VIC)
Key activity: Library outreach to kindergartens, playgroups and child care centres.

Manage your income manage your life

Organisation: Centacare Wilcannia–Forbes
Key activity: Provision of access to quality financial counselling services free of charge to people in low income groups, experiencing financial crisis due to circumstances such as unemployment, sickness, credit over-commitment or family breakdown

Moorditj Coolangars ('Solid Kids') Community Hub

Organisation: Mt Lockyer Primary School, WA
Key activity: Community Hub - Closing literacy and numeracy gaps between Aboriginal and Non-Aboriginal children.

Onkaparinga Community Connections Project (OCCP)

Organisation: Partnership between Hackham West Community Centre (HWCC), Noarlunga Downs P-7 School and Hackham South School CPC-7
Key activity: School-based approach to building community capacity, resilience and self-reliance.

Our family is starting school - Tracks to big school

Organisation: NSW Department of Education and Training
Key activity: Transition to school program.

Parent Advisory Group Extraordinaire (PAGE)

Organisation: Communities for Children with Uniting Care Wesley Port Pirie as the Facilitating Partner Organisation
Key activity: Supporting parent group activism.

Parent Education and Relationships Living Skills (PEARLS)

Organisation: Northern Gold Coast Communities for Children Project, Oxenford Coomera Community Youth Centre (South-East Queensland)
Key activity: Aims to ensure that all families in the Northern Gold Coast community have access to a range of responsive services, supports, education, skills training and relationships.

Parenting KI: Strengthening Families

Organisation: Kangaroo Island Children's Services
Key activity: Parent training sessions and workshops on: issues affecting families, strategies for making the family unit stronger, and engaging fathers in parenting education.

Partnerships in Early Childhood (PIEC)

Organisation: The Benevolent Society, NSW
Key activity: Uses centre-based children's services to foster relationships between children and cVacatioVaaregivers (parents and teachers), and to enhance children's social and emotional development; also provides support for isolated parents in this disadvantaged community.

Partnerships with Parents (PWP) Program

Organisation: SDN Children's Services (formerly Sydney Day Nursery)
Key activity: Parenting support for socio-economically marginalised and at risk families.

Playgroups on the Move (PGOTM)

Organisation: Centracare SA in partnership w Hackham West Community Centre, Christie Downs Community Centre, Morphett Vale Woodcroft Neighbourhood Centre
Key activity: Support for existing playgroups.

ProAQtive Early Intervention Program

Organisation: Autism Queensland Inc.
Key activity: Multi-disciplinary early childhood education and family support program provided as an early intervention strategy for preschool children with autism spectrum disorders and their family.

...whatwerewethinking! Psycho-Educational Program for Parents (PEPP)

Organisation: Key Centre for Women's Health in Society, Melbourne School of Population Health, University of Melbourne
Key activity: Early intervention with mothers and fathers soon after the birth of their first child to extend their knowledge and skills in managing infant needs and negotiating the new unpaid workload fairly, thereby alleviating potential mental health problems.

Ravenswood Early Learning Centre: Early Start Program

Organisation: Ravenswood Early Learning Centre, Launceston (Tasmania)
Key activity: A pre-school based early intervention program for hard-to-reach, educationally 'disenfranchised' families.

RIDBC’s Teleschool – Early Childhood Invest to Grow initiative

Organisation: Royal Institute for Deaf and Blind Children (RIDBC) Parramatta (Sydney), NSW
Key activity: Early learning and care for families with children who have hearing and/or vision loss and require specialist early intervention.

Rural Beginnings Project - Hub and Spoke

Organisation: Kurrajong Early Intervention Service
Key activity: Hub and spoke model of service delivery to rural communities.

Rural Beginnings Project - Team Around the Child

Organisation: Kurrajong Early Intervention Service
Key activity: The team provides individually tailored early intervention services, including early education, therapy, counselling and parent training to families who have babies and children with disabilities and developmental delays.

The SDN Family Resource Centre

Organisation: SDN Children's Services Inc (formerly Sydney Day Nursery)
Key activity: Provision of information, advice and support for parents with young children aged 0–8 in Sydney’s south-west who are accessing the SDN Family Resource Centre’s toy/resource library.

Sing & Grow

Organisation: Playgroup Association of Queensland
Key activity: A music therapy early intervention strategy for parents of young children.

Sports Mentor Project - Coonamble

Organisation: Stride Foundation, Coonamble (North-West NSW)
Key activity: Teaching life skills to disengaged young males through sports-based mentoring.

STaR Inclusive Early Childhood Project

Organisation: Access Macquarie and STaR Inclusive Early Childhood Association
Key activity: The STaR program aims to increase the inclusion of children with a disability in childcare settings by collaborating with families, early intervention professionals, local councils, not-for-profit organisations, and university academics to build capacity and skills of centre-based childcare staff.

Strong Young Mums (SYM) - Bourke

Organisation: Centacare Wilcannia Forbes, NSW
Key activity: Supports young, teenage mothers to increase their skills and confidence in parenting, as well as to re-engage with education and community services relevant to their needs.

SuperGrands

Organisation: Communities@Work - ACT
Key activity: Family mentoring program.

Sunshine Learning Together

Organisation: St Vincent de Paul Society (In partnership with Victorian Cooperative on Children’s Services in Ethnic Groups, Uniting Care Sunshine Mission, and Adult Multicultural Education Services)
Key activity: Sunshine Learning Together is a dual generation learning program for parents who want to learn English and who have preschool age children. There are three components to the program: culturally appropriate early learning and activities for 0–5s; simultaneous English language tuition for the mothers; a follow-on parent–child program attended by both the mother and her children.

Talking Realities... Young Parenting Peer-Education Program

Organisation: Kingston Bayside Primary Care Partnership
Key activity: A health promotion strategy for young parents and youth at risk of early pregnancy, utilising a peer-education model expanding the scope of existing school-based, sexual health programs.

Through the Looking Glass (TtLG) - A Partnership in Parenting Project

Organisation: Lady Gowrie Child Centre - Adelaide, SA
Key activity: A collaborative model of early intervention and prevention providing intensive psychosocial support, therapeutic intervention and childcare as a package for high risk families in order to improve secure attachment outcomes for young children.

Volunteering as a pathway to education, employment and civic participation ("Gateways")

Organisation: Springvale Community Aid and Advice Bureau Inc (SCAAB), Melbourne (VIC)
Key activity: Provides capacity building, resilience and self-reliance opportunities for disadvantaged members though community volunteering.

Youth Insearch Leadership

Organisation: Youth Insearch Foundation (YIF)
Key activity: Youth Insearch is a 3-stage early intervention program for young people at risk between the ages of 12-18 years. The practice focuses on leadership training and personal development for at-risk young people, primarily from rural and regional communities.

Youth Insearch Program

Organisation: Youth Insearch Foundation (YIF)
Key activity: Youth Insearch weekend camp and follow-up program is an early intervention program for young people at risk between the ages of 12-18 years. It is peer focused, utilising peers supporting peers to achieve results.