Communities Around Kids

Communities Around Kids extends beyond the family and practitioner network and reaches out into the surrounding community

 

Sylvanvale Foundation recently opened a new and innovative children's service called Communities Around Kids. The program will provide regular, high quality care for young children with multifaceted disabilities, as well as offering early intervention strategies and support to families in crisis. The service will be a home away from home for the child and it will also be the centrepiece of a community around the child, which will include families as well as siblings, staff and practitioners.

One of the key aims of the service is to keep families together and it will do this by providing a safe, supportive and secure environment for all family members. It will offer a fun and stable place for children to live when their families need respite and a breather to work through difficult situations.

The program will also offer a new, more efficient and effective way for families to access specialised and coordinated disability services which in the long run will allow families to spend more quality time together.

But the beauty of the Communities Around Kids program is that it extends beyond the family and practitioner network and reaches out into the surrounding community. The program aims to engage the local community via volunteering, specialist programs and sporting activities. 

At Sylvanvale, there really is a community around every child.

Leanne Fretten

General Manager Children's Services
Sylvanvale Foundation

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