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Harmony Day Community Feast
This year NCNS celebrated its first Harmony Day with a Community Feast at our Cranebrook Neighbourhood Centre. Harmony Day was an open invitation to all community members to come and celebrate the c...
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Aboriginal Early Childhood Developmental Outreach Day
Early intervention screening is a vital service for young children that can help to identify any health, developmental or other problems that may affect their growth, learning and development. It c...
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International Women’s Day Event 2018
We celebrated International Women’s day with over 200 exceptional women at an event held at St Marys Memorial Hall on Wednesday 7th March. The day was an opportunity to get together to...
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Historic House Restoration
Historic House - Thornton Hall, restored to its former glory by owner and heritage building specialist, Peter Cipollone was officially opened yesterday. Speeches were delivered by Laura Player (des...
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Holi Festival of Colours
Holi is a Hindu festival that marks the end of winter and is usually performed in March. The festival is rooted in Hindu mythology and celebrates the triumph of good over evil. On Saturday 10th Mar...
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2018: NCNS celebrates 20 years of Aboriginal Service Delivery
This year NCNS celebrates 20 years of providing Aboriginal Services in the Penrith area. This ...
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Chinese New Year Celebration: Thornton
Our Chinese New Year celebration was a fantastic festival. We had some amazing food cooked by Hao Chen as well as sharing delicious food brought in by the local community. Chinese dancers and lion d...
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10th Anniversary of National Apology Event at Kooly
Today is the 10th Anniversary of the National Apology to the Stolen Generation and Indigenous people of Australia. Today we got together with our community at Kooly to reflect on the significance...
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Cultural Awareness Training with Flic Ryan
In 2017 NCNS experienced significant growth with the addition of many new programs including Closing the Gap, Aboriginal Dual Diagnosis and Functional Family Therapy – Child Welfare. NCNS is a bi...
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Playgroups are back!
St Marys Aboriginal Supported Playgroup St Marys Playgroup went back on Monday 5th February. The day consisted of art and craft, and story time focusing on the st...
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School Holiday Program January 2018
During the January School Holiday Program our Youth team took our youth to various activities including: Summer Lunches at our Koolyangarra Aboriginal Family Centre Ryde Pools...
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10 Year Anniversary of the National Apology
This year marks the 10th Anniversary of the National Apology to the Stolen Generat...
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Message from the GM
It is at this time of year that we like to thank all the communities that we work with includi...
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Facebook Wrap Up Dec.
Check out highlights from our facebook page in December! 1st December What a fantastic tur...
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Cranebrook Estate XMAS Party 2017
The Cranebrook Estate Christmas Party went off with a bang! This is a day that our staff rea...
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#Friends Program
The #Friends (Love Bites Jnr) program was developed with the intention to promote healthy respectful relationships and use of social media. Our aim was to create an environment where young people lead...
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Creative Writing Story – Second Chance
South Penrith Neighbourhood Centre Creative Writing Group meets every Tuesday, 9.30am - 11:00am. We are a group of writers who love the written word in all its forms. Each week, with the aid of writin...
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Cranebrook Connects Kids
Through consultation with local families it was identified that youth between 8 - 12-years old had limited opportunities to participate in minimal low cost or free activities within the local area. A ...
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Children’s Week 2017
Children’s Week is an opportunity to acknowledge and celebrate the rights, needs and accomplishments of children. Our children’s week event was bustling with activity. Everywhere you looked, th...
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Kids getting outdoors improves well being
With so much technology around and such busy lifestyles kids are spending less time outdoors and more time in front of screens. Another barrier to kids getting outside is parents may not feel comfor...
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Mental Health Event October
We were recently informed that 60% of school students are suffering from severe anxiety around exams and the pressures of performance. With October being Mental Health Month, we held a Mental Healt...
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Messy Play Day
During the school holidays NCNS & Northcott joined forces to put on a Messy Play Day, for children 0-9 years old. The aim of the day was to entice families to come along and explore different s...
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Train the Trainer – Deadly Thinking
You may be familiar with some of NCNS’ Aboriginal workers, Dave, Trudy, Bronwyn and Donna who are based at our Koolyangarra Aboriginal Family Centre & Werrington Centre. This week they attended ...
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Impact on school attendance
During the school term, we run a FREE breakfast club at Cranebrook Neighbourhood Centre for school students from the local area. Braddock Public School’s transport to school program uses the NCNS...
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School Holiday Program – What our youth get up to!
Monday 25th September - Ripples Pools ...
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Girls with Goals Scholarship Program
Wentworth Community Housing has again funded 5 girls under their “Girls with Goals” scholarship Program for 2017, which provided sponsorship of local Cranebrook girls to have the opportunity to be...
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Over the weekend, NCNS staff, together with staff from the RSPCA, and Coreen Avenue Vet, provided a Community Pet Day in Cranebrook for community members who live within the Penrith City Council area....
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Talking about Trauma
Last Wednesday, 6 child protection counsellors from Integrated Violence Prevention & Response Services (IVPRS) came out to Koolyangarra Aboriginal Family Centre to run a "Talking about T...
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National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Children’s Day Event 2017
On Friday 4th August, NCNS celebrated the National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Children’s Dayevent at our Koolyangarra Aboriginal Family Centre with our loc...
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Living in the Urban Heart of Penrith
Twenty years ago, who would have imagined that a June evening in 2017 would bring fifty local residents together to talk about what ‘urban living’ means for Penrith now and in the future? As Pe...
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