Fun in the Sun for Child Protection Week

On Friday 10th Sept The team from Park and Play were at Little Park Shellharbour with some extra friends and helpers to promote safe and healthy fun and games for families.

To celebrate Child Protection Week 2010, C4C Community Development Facilitator Judy organised for Craig and the Good Neighbour Crew from Shellharbour Council to provide a BBQ lunch. Ryan and Beth from Pink Fox Face Painting were also on hand to provide free fancy decorations for hands and faces.

Once again proving that Shellharbour is a Child Friendly City there was a great turn out of 48 adults and 51 under fives! The weather was kind and the rain held off till after everyone had gone home for a rest.

Thanks to Glenda and Fiona from POPPY playgroup who brought their group and helped with games.

They are under there somewhere!

Tessa

Introducing Katc Medenis

We are very happy to welcome Katc Medenis, a TAFE student studying Community Services, to C4C.

Katc will be with us for the next couple of months. She is taking on some research/evaluation work for us while she is on placement and will be working her way around to all the Community Partner activities. You will be able to meet Katc at the C4C meeting on Wednesday 8th Sept at the PCYC.

Tessa

Welcome Katie - FACE coordinator!

Katie Murphy, the new project coordinator of the latest C4C Activity Family & Community Engagement (FACE :)) was a welcome addition to the Barnardos / C4C display table at the CDEP Reunion Event today.

The gathering and services expo was held at The Land - Warrigal Employment site at Windang. We were invited to display information from all the Barnardos and C4C programs for families. To make sure we attracted attention Katie brought bananas and apples to give away and I brought C4C bags, drink bottles and the last of our Frisbees. Katie has also invested in an Apple Slinky machine which was a big hit with both the children and the Aunties! She is now looking forward to lots more community engagement as her project develops.

Talking to families at this event it was interesting to hear feedback about which services are well known and being able to introduce more people to ones that may interest them. When we spoke about the FACE target age group of 8-12s there was a lot of support and encouragement that this is definitely a needed.

Tessa