Tag: Aboriginal
NCNS supports this event and would love to see the community coming along to have the opportunity to hear a range of speakers and find out more about why the referendum and the Voice is so important i...
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Parents Corner: Infant Mental Health Awareness Week: Can You Spoil a Baby?
The short answer is “no”! Even though this has long been a worry for new parents, the current science reassures us that there is no way to spoil baby. Babies who receive warm, sensitive, and respo...
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Parent’s Corner: How to Tell the Difference between Bullying and Fighting
Do you know the difference between bullying and fighting? Researchers have found that many parents struggle to know when it’s bullying or just everyday quarrels between friends, classmates, or sibli...
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In 12 months, up to 50 Aboriginal families positively impacted by outreach days
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Read More...Chat with Monica about all things Parenting
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Parents Corner: Responding to Children’s Good Behaviour
Many parenting articles talk about dealing with difficult behaviour and yet, the ways we respond to children’s positive behaviour is just as important. ...
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Generation Vape: How to Talk to your Teen about the Risks of E-Cigarettes ...
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How to Support a Very, Very Upset Child Oct 26, 2022 With Summer holidays fast approaching and families gathering at local beaches and swim...
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NCNS Snow Trip 2022
NCNS has been incredibly fortunate to be friends with the amazing people at Burton Snowboards....
Read More...Humility, a lost key to leadership
There are 3 things that struck me when talking with Reece: he’s polite; he’s articulate; he loves his community of Cranebrook and he’s humble. Okay that’s four, but it was his humility that...
Read More...Message from the Manager 2015
2015 has certainly been a BIG year – and I’d like to share some of my highlights! New Projects This year saw the Work for the Dole at Kooly program kick off, with f...
Read More...NCNS are helping Aboriginal kids get ready for school!
This term, NCNS have been running the Aboriginal Speech & Language Supported Playgroup out of Koolyangarra Aboriginal Child and Family Centre. This is a program aimed at 4 to 5 year old Aborigi...
Read More...5th Annual NAIDOC Cup
5 years ago, NCNS worker, Donna Hancock, came up with the idea to show off the natural athletic skills of our Aboriginal kids and their friends, bring schools together, learn about culture, and create...
Read More...NAIDOC Week 2015
Friday, 10 July, was a chilly, chilly morning, but that didn’t put the slightest dent in the NAIDOC Week event at Jamison Park. NAIDOC Week is always a time for celebration at NCNS, and NAIDOC at Ja...
Read More...NCNS Reconciliation Week Event 2015
On Friday, 29 May, all of the Cranebrook community, and the local service providers were invited to join Nepean Community & Neighbourhood Services in celebrating Reconciliation Week - bringing awa...
Read More...No Jab, No Pay? What NCNS is doing to help.
The Commonwealth Government will be abolishing the ‘conscientious objector’ exemption on children’s vaccinations from 1 January 2016. What does this mean? It means that unless your child i...
Read More...How did NCNS commemorate Apology Day?
NCNS is the leading provider of Aboriginal social support services in the Penrith area – providing Aboriginal supported playgroups, cultural dance, kinship carer support groups, young mums groups, c...
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Casework at NCNS
At NCNS, a large proportion of our work is casework for vulnerable children, young people and families. We are fortunate to have created partnerships with Wesley Mission and Bridging the Gap to be abl...
Read More...National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Children’s Day 2014
Each year on 4th August is National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Children's Day, and this year we celebrated at Kooly with kids from local playgroups and preschools. National Aboriginal an...
Read More...NAIDOC at Jamison Park 2014
This year’s NAIDOC at Jamison Park was huge, and NCNS were proud to be a part of it. As usual, our staff were all involved, helping out in our activities – nail painting, loom bands, ...
Read More...NAIDOC Cup 2014
Our 4th Annual NAIDOC Cup, held at Hunter Fields, Emu Plains on Friday 20th June 2014, was our biggest one to date. A partnership between NCNS and Medicare Local’s “Closing The Gap” team, we had...
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