Tag: Nepean Community & Neighbourhood Services
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
NCNS is o...
Read More...Chat with Monica about all things Parenting
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Read More...Getting creative in Cranebrook, working with Community Artist Diamando Koutsellis
We’re being creative in Cranebrook, working with Community Artist Diamando Koutsellis to create some life size figures to decorate the fences beside the walkway between the Cranebrook shopping centr...
Read More...30 minutes each Wednesday all DCJ & FFT members connect through Olympic style office games
Welcome to the 20...
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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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Parents Corner
Generation Vape: How to Talk to your Teen about the Risks of E-Cigarettes ...
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Parents Corner
How to Support a Very, Very Upset Child Oct 26, 2022 With Summer holidays fast approaching and families gathering at local beaches and swim...
Read More...NCNS Snow Trip 2022
NCNS has been incredibly fortunate to be friends with the amazing people at Burton Snowboards....
Read More...4 Tips to Beat Negative Self-Talk
Self talk can be described as the conversations or simple comments we have going on in our head. It is an internal dialogue of our thoughts. It can be quite hard to catch the dialogue because it can c...
Read More...Choosing consequences
Narelle Smith, our parenting expert, recently posted this article to her blog (https://handsheartsminds.wordpress.com): What have I been talking with parents about this past month? A l...
Read More...11 Top Tips to ease the transition to High School
With young people up and down the country having just made the transition from Primary School to High School it is important that we understand how stressful this time can. High school is the place wh...
Read More...Is missing breakfast a big deal?
It is commonly accepted and understood that education is important – opening up opportunities, empowering young people to live the best life they can – and one of the most effective things we can ...
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...Risky Business Trivia Challenge
As part of the Penrith Youth Interagency (PYI), a working group was established called Risky Business, which is run by local service providers within Penrith with a focus on bringing awareness to Youn...
Read More...Mission Australia’s Annual Youth Survey
Mission Australia’s Youth Survey is the nation’s largest online annual ‘temperature check’ of teenagers aged between 15 and 19. Run every year, this highly influential survey gives young peopl...
Read More...Women of Penrith – they made a difference!
The Taste of Everything Women’s Workshops is one of the groups that run out of the Floribunda Community Centre at Glenmore Park. It was created around four years ago, as an opportunity for women to ...
Read More...Lessons learned from an outreach session
As a Community Development Worker, I want to make a change. I want to help those that are struggling, with big or small struggles – I’m not picky. Some of those that are struggling in our commu...
Read More...NCNS and Chaplaincy in Schools
With the expansion of her role, our not-so-new staff member, Emma - a Youth Caseworker in the Youth Team - is excited to be able to take on the Chaplaincy role at Kingswood Park Public School. This m...
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...Quirky Kids
The following article appeared in the July issue of the monthly Gazettes distributed throughout Penrith. Do you have a child who is different? A quirky kid? He or she does things d...
Read More...The Youth Committee Community Garden & Mural project
The Youth Committee formed after Naomi Stevenson – Community Development worker and Artist, from Nepean Community & Neighbourhood Services, saw a real need for positive and sustained engagement ...
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