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One of the Kids - November 2019, Mayfield

DATE Monday 18 November

TIME 9am for 9.30am start

VENUE Mayfield Ex-Services Club 58 Hanbury Street

Refreshments available on arrival, with lunch and a resource pack provided.

REGISTRATION:

Online www.family-advocacy.com/events/

Call 1800 620 588 or (02) 9869 0866

Email advocacyandleadership@family-advocacy.com

This workshop will cover:

How the school years can lead to a meaningful life

A brief history of disability education

How inclusion can look in the classroom

Evidence and support for inclusion education

Education policies and supports that exist within schools

Hear from a family member as they share the story of their child who is learning in the regular classroom

This report looks at poverty rates, or the experience of significant economic disadvantage, for different population groups within NSW, as well as investigating which population groups are in poverty.

Find it here

Do you work with children who have experienced trauma? Join

Carolyn Cousins as she shares NEW and CURRENT THEORIES

relating to children who have experienced trauma, the effects of

this on their brain development and how you as an Educator can

play an important role in fostering their well being and

education.

Date: Monday 11th November

Time: 5pm registration, 5.30pm – 8.30pm

(light supper served)

Price $ 35 per head

Mingara Recreation Centre

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https://educatorstraumaworkshop.eventbrite.com.au

Phone: Central Coast Family Support Service for enquiries 4340 1585

Club Lemon Tree Bowling Club

Gould Dr, Lemon Tree Passage NSW 2319

Friday, November 29th. 2019

From 10am to 1330hrs

This month's theme is the end of year : Christmas

If you or you know of anyone who might be interested in attending, could you please invite them to attend.

We ask is that you email us at our new email address social@totalaccesssupport.com

With orders for meals by 1600 hrs on 24th of November 2019 so the Lemon Seed kitchen staff have time to have enough supplies ordered and they are able to cater for everyone's requests.

Find the updated document here

Port Stephens Seniors Festival 12-23 February 2020

Are you planning on hosting an event for Seniors Festival 2020?

Council has received grant funding to run activities and promote Seniors Festival 2020.

We are putting together a program of activities across Port Stephens and would love to include details of your event. Become involved by hosting an activity that focuses on seniors or simply open up your service or club for a morning tea and let us know about it!

Please send details of your event to be held during Seniors Festival 2020 to mylink@portstephens.nsw.gov.au and we will include in our promotional material. We will need details of your planned activity by Tuesday 3 December.

Find out more about Seniors Week 2020 in NSW here.

Feel free to contact the Community Development and Engagement Team at Council for more information.

Thanks

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• ASIST facilitates involvement. Participants will spend over half of the workshop in the same small group with one of the two trainers.
• Learning is stimulated by audiovisuals and teaching. A suicide first aid model provides the framework for the workshop and skills practise.
• The workshop provides opportunities to learn what a person at risk may need from others in order to keep safe and get more help. Participants consider common factors that may flag potential suicide risk.
• ASIST has a training focus. Personal and professional experiences that participants bring contribute to everyone’s learning. Experiences with suicide and intervention are focused on the overall learning goal which is to provide suicide intervention first aid.
• Participants are also encouraged to share and reflect on their attitudes about suicide and suicide intervention and hear those of others. People are invited to reflect on how these attitudes may affect their caregiver role with a person at risk and to appreciate diverse perspectives.
• The workshop encourages honest, open and direct talk about suicide as part of preparing people to provide suicide intervention first aid.

Find out more here

Live, Learn, Grow

Live, Learn, Grow supports students with an Out of Home Care (OOHC) experience to access and actively participate in higher education by offering support in areas that are known to present challenges.

Live, Learn, Grow was the first program in Australia and internationally to provide students from a care experience, such as foster or residential care, with a range of tailored support services including:

• Assistance with finding and maintaining appropriate accommodation

• Access to on-campus employment

• Academic and social support

  Anyone with a prior care experience who is interested in studying at the University of Newcastle can apply for the Live, Learn, Grow program. You don't need to already have applied for university or even to have finished year 12, as we can assist you with exploring enrolment options, including Enabling Programs, such as Newstep, Open Foundation and Yapug.

  Find more out here