Tag: young people
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...
Read More...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...
Read More...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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Read More...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...
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...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...Introducing – CRANEBROOK CONNECTS!
The Cranebrook Collective Impact Project moves to its next stage! With hundreds of entries, from primary schools, high schools, services and community members, our Name Our Project competition gave...
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...NCNS Youth Team promote Mental Health Month at Nepean High School
Mental illness is thought to be an underlying factor in about 90% of all youth suicides, which according to research is the leading cause of youth death in Australia. One of the defining factors for b...
Read More...It’s Happening – the Cranebrook Youth Hub is up and running!
It’s been 6 months in the making! NCNS Youth Staff have relocated to a new building, set up the centre and made renovations. We are opening the doors officially with a launch on Monday, 29 June, and...
Read More...Mission Australia 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, since 2002, this highly influential survey gives...
Read More...Seniors Week with NCNS!
NSW Seniors Week 2015 ran from 14-22 March and NCNS wasn’t content with running just one event. The first event was held at Torton Place, and we had a great time with residents planting beautiful...
Read More...NCNS celebrates our young people! Youth Week 2015
Youth Week this year runs from 10 April t...
Read More...Creating our Leaders of the Future (and Now)
Our young people will run the world some day - and it’s our job to prepare them, and help them grow into the leaders we know they can be. We want our young people to feel a sense of ownership, an...
Read More...NCNS Youth Team ramp up the School Holiday Fun
Each school holidays, our Youth Team put on a program of activities for the young people aged 11-17 years from Cranebrook and Kingswood Park. The Youth Holiday Program is a social and recreational b...
Read More...Safe Partying Tips!
Well, the end of the year is approaching very fast, and with that comes all the Christmas and New Year celebrations. Many Young people and many who are young at heart, will be out at parties or music ...
Read More...Breakfast Club – more than just a bowl of cornflakes
Every school day kids around Australia go to school hungry – affecting their behaviour, their ability to learn, and their health. NCNS have developed a program for kids from schools in the local are...
Read More...Mental Health Month Roadshow
Did you know that 1 in 16 young people experience a Depressive Disorder and I in 6 experience an Anxiety condition? http...
Read More...Look what our Young People can do – Callisto Drive Playground!
What do you get when you get a bunch of young people that want to make a difference in their community, and the local Mayor throws down a gauntlet to those young people? A beautifully upgraded playgro...
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