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Bundaberg
Dalby
Emerald
ACTIVITYAND
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The change in our model of care has seen
an increase in community education and
community engagement activities from the
Bundaberg team.
Targeted programs being run have also
increased and programs currently provided
to our community include: PALS, Fun
friends, Stop Think Do, Alert program,
and Fingergym; the team has goals for the
year ahead to take on new programs and
community capacity-building courses, e.g.
parent play.
We aim to provide ongoing support to the
Bundaberg and outreach communities in
the areas of community capacity-building
and targeted programs.
We are running more groups than ever!
Our Psychologist offered ADHD education
groups and small groups in schools, with
the Psychologist and FHSW trained to run
Triple P and keenly providing the programs
to the communities.
PALs is offered far and wide by the FHSW
in the majority of kindergartens in Dalby,
and this is now expanding to Millmerran,
Cecil Plains, and Chinchilla.
Prep readiness talks were provided in
Millmerran, Jandowae and Kingaroy,
helping children with school readiness; as
well, the Speech Pathologist and OT offered
school readiness programs here at the
Centre early in 2016.
The Occupational Therapists ran many
programs to schools in Dalby and at
Moonie State School for handwriting, as
well as the Alert Programs.
Our Speech Pathologist helped provide
training to professionals and parents in the
Read and Grow program.
SLP Felicity continued her busy caseload in
local and outreach communities, as well as
initiating recruitment of a volunteer, with
the assistance of Rachel in the Brisbane
office, to support resource preparation and
administration for the clinicians’ busy
caseloads. The aim of this support is to
reduce preparation time and increase the
number of clients on active caseloads.
FHSW Rhianna and SLP Felicity have been
working closely with The Gemfields
playgroup families, conducting Read and
Grow sessions where there is limited access
to early education services. The FHSW and
SLP have also supported the playgroup’s
efforts in improving the facilities, creating
community links such as The Gemfields
RSL members volunteering to mow the
lawn.
Psychologist Myles has provided multiple
seminar sessions of Triple P at the start of
the year and more are planned. Myles has
also provided outreach to Clermont and
Dysart, as well as beginning to engage in
telephone sessions to outlying communities
where appropriate to do so.
New graduate OT Jess is busy establishing
her caseload, and planning to commence
a Fingergym group with our FHSW. Jess
enjoyed outreach to Clermont earlier in
the year.
IN OUR
CENTRE
We have had a few visits from the clinical
leadership team for building audits and
professional support through in-services,
observations, face-to-face supervisions and
team planning.
During this time with the professional
leads, the team identified goals for the
coming year, including: re-establishing
psychology services, continuing multi-
disciplinary work, continue providing
outreach support in priority areas,
and establishing new programs/courses
(parent play, PALS/ Alert, ADHD parent
workshop, A Steady Start to Schoool) in
addition to current targeted programs.
One of our key achievements this year
has been our multidisciplinary teamwork
approach. During this time, the team
had effective open communication and
collaboration which positively impacted
on clinical outcomes and family-centred
practice. We hope to continue this with our
new full team.
Although our Centre building has been
identified as less than ideal, in attempt to
make the building more family-friendly, we
have identified some areas of the building
that could be improved, such as with new
paint and rearranging some of the spaces.
Our Centre is a lovely welcoming place for
families to access and is well resourced.
The team is very positive in supporting
each other in providing the best possible
services to as many families as possible.
Dalby Centre now begins a new era with a
new team for the coming year – which is
exciting to continue with the great work
we are doing.
The Emerald Centre has nice grassy areas
around the building, but there are often
bindii and prickles, making it difficult to
make the best use of this resource, as lots of
our children love to take their shoes off.
If we could get the prickles permanently
removed, we could make better use of this
outdoor space.
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