Childrens Services CALD Project Metro Central Sydney

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Childrens ServicesCALD ProjectMetro Central
Sydney
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Outcomes of the project

• Promote and encourage the use of childrens
  services by CALD Communities
• Identify CALD families in need of support and
  assist them to use and become a part of
  childrens services.
• Provide general and customised training for staff
  and management of childrens services
• Research and develop models of best practice
• Engage other human services to better support
  CALD families with special needs and the
  childrens services workers who cater for them.

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Childrens services include

• Family Day Care
• Vacation Care
• Out of School Hours Care
• Long Day Care
• Preschool
• Home Based Care

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History/Overview

• Metro South East Sydney(2006-2007)
• NSW DoCS Metro Central Regions (2008-2009) -
  including Inner West Northern Sydney.
• Two Project Officers
• Annabel Murray (Community Development)
• Estefania Montano Ardila (Early Childhood
  Teacher)

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Strategies

• Training (a key component). Topics include
• Multicultural Perspectives and Meaningful
  Celebrations
• Multicultural Programming and Using Appropriate
  Resources
• Cross Cultural Communication Diverse Child
  Rearing Practice

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Sharing the load

• Many of the training sessions have included a
  networking forum, to provide participants with
  the opportunity to meet workers and staff from
  local community centres, councils and other
  organisations that provide services to CALD
  communities. The aim of these forums was to
• provide children's services with information
  about local community organisations, and the
  types of support they provide to CALD families
• to provide information about CALD communities
  within the local area from a community
  perspective
• to provide a link between local children's
  services and community organisations for future
  reference and referral.
• provide the opportunity to discuss and ask
  questions about local support services

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Strategies contCommunity Profile Sessions

• Supporting childrens services workers to gain
  some insight into the
• cultures and childrearing practices of some of
  the communities they
• work with.
• Communities covered so far (2008) include
• Bangladesh
• Lebanese
• Vietnamese
• Chinese
• Maori
• South Sea Islander
• African communities
• Portuguese
• Coming in OctoberKorean, Indonesian, Arabic

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Strategies contParent Information Sessions

• Information sessions for CALD parents in
  conjunction with bilingual
• Community workers.
• Topics include
• Types of childrens services
• Accessing childrens services
• Rights and responsibilities of parents
• CCB
• Maintaining first language
• Quality Care
• Interpreters and multilingual information can be
  arranged if necessary
• and available

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Resources

• Translated brochures
• Getting to know childrens services
• In response to questions raised in parent
  Information Sessions. Also available form the
  ECCFCSC website.
• Languages include Arabic, Bengali, Chinese,
  Dinka, English, Indonesian, Korean, Russian,
  Spanish, Thai, Vietnamese

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Multicultural Contact List for Childrens
Services in South east Sydney

• Provides contacts on local and state based
  community services, groups and organisations that
  can assist CALD children and families.
• Distributed to over 450 services in SE Sydney
• Also downloadable from the website
• Multicultural contact list for Sydney Metro
  Inner West Northern Sydney in progress.

Multicultural Contact List For Childrens
Services in Inner West Sydney
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The Cultural Treasure Chest Valuing Cultural
Diversity in Childrens Services - DVD

• Distributed free to all childrens services in
  the Metro Central Region.
• The DVD is divided into five parts
• What is a Multicultural Perspective
• Building genuine and respectful relationships
  with CALD families and children.
• Multicultural Programming
• Benefits of a Multicultural Perspective
• Issues affecting refugee children
• Support Services in NSW

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Interactive Posters

• Designed as a training resource to inform staff
  (including cooks, administrative staff, casual
  workers and parents) of practical ways to assist
  CALD children and families.
• Created in response to feedback that many
  childrens services staff are not able to attend
  training due to lack of staffing and service
  funding, and in some cases a lack of commitment
  to multiculturalism
• Distributed free to all Metro Central services.

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Welcoming Bicultural Bilingual Children Their
Families
Keys to Cultural Inclusion
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Ethnic Child Care Family and Community Services
Cooperative Ltd

• Building 3, 142 Addison Rd
• Marrickville, NSW, 2204
• Phone [phone]
• Fax [phone]
• Email cald_at_idx.com.au
• Web www.eccfcsc.org