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Acacia Outreach Children's Services Program is funded under Supplementary
Services (SUPS) Program by the Commonwealth of Australia Department of Family & Community Services Children's Services Program. The objectives of
SUPS program (SUPS Program Guidelines 1996) are:
- To increase the access and participation of children
with additional needs in Commonwealth funded Children's services, and
- To facilitate developmentally and culturally appropriate programs in these services for children with additional needs.
The aims of Acacia Outreach Program are:
- To promote children's services to Indochinese families and community, assist Indochinese families with children equitably accessing the children's services,
- To assist the children's service providers to meet the needs
of Indochinese children and families in a cultural relevant way.
Acacia Outreach Program is not only provide services
to Indochinese families whom children are enrolled at the Acacia but also
at the other local children's services in Melbourne metropolitan.
With the existing ability, expertise and qualification
in child care, community development and cross-cultural communication of
the Acacia's outreach staff, we provide free of charge services in the
following areas:
- Working with Vietnamese/Chinese children on the language
development, on occasional or fixed session. Providing assistance for individual or group of children in needs.
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Bridging the cultural gap between Indochinese parents
and staff (cultural aspects/ expectation, child rearing practice etc...).
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Helping children's services providers develop strategies
to promote the service and encouraging Indochinese families to utilise the
children's services available, particularly for the new comers in the area.
- Providing services, training
for Vietnamese/ Chinese care-givers.
- Taking part in seminars/workshops with the purpose
to gain a mutual understanding between Indochinese community and the broader
community in a multicultural context, and in a culture advocacy capacity.
- Assisting in translating short notices/information for Indochinese parents.
- Producing paper/newsletters on various cultural issues
in English for children's services providers.
- Providing information, booklets, relating to child
care, health care and children’s
services in Indochinese languages and/or in bilingual (English-Vietnamese).
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Email: acacia@yarranet.net.au
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