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Inglewood
Mount Isa
Warwick
Read and Grow has become a large part
of all of the playgroup sessions that I have
offered, with the children really enjoying
their story time and activities of making
and creating, colouring and singing. Triple
P seminar was offered in Stanthorpe. as
was 1-2-3 Magic with positive feedback
received.
BUSHkids acquired a tender for workforce
support through
Communities for Children
North Queensland
. The roll-out of the
program has delivered an increasing
number of community capacity-building
sessions in the Mount Isa community,
including Triple P Seminars, Play Seminars,
Developmental Milestones presentations
and supported playgroups.
At the start of 2016 the first BUSHkids-
developed Ready Set Prep program was
delivered at our Centre, a great opportunity
to showcase this inhouse program!
Fun Friends, Friends for Life and Triple P
seminars have also been offered at
kindergartens and schools in the region
and Speech Pathology services have been
provided at schools, kindergartens and the
Mount Isa Centre.
Fun Friends, Friends for Life, PALS and
Triple P and 123 Magic continue to be very
popular programs.
We have seen an increase in community
capacity-building opportunities being
offered by BUSHkids, including:
• Prep Readiness programs
• Get Set for Prep talks
• Read and Grow – community training
• Professional Development for early
childhood educators on supporting
communication development
and clinical support to:
• outreach to Yelarbon (SLP and OT)
• outreach to Allora (SLP)
ACTIVITYAND
OUTPUTS
.
I am so enjoying being back working full
time and it would be great if there were
more hours in the day to get done what
I see in my head as being possible.
The versatility that we have to offer our
services to the Yelarbon, Inglewood and the
extended Stanthorpe community is there
to grow on.
We had the opportunity to purchase new
clinical resources, toys and games from
Community Development
funding. We are
very grateful to be able to replace older
items that were in disrepair as well as
expand our pretend play toolbox!
Our Centre has experienced challenges in
the provision of multidisciplinary support
due to short staffing. We have addressed
this issue by referring to other services in
Mount Isa where possible.
Identifying another appropriate service
was often challenging due to individual
service models and staff turnover. This is
an ongoing issue.
The new Centre is an open office space
which comes with many positives (such
as learning about each other’s discipline
and easier related clinical discussions)
and some negatives (noise levels and
interruptions can at times be an issue), but
we have effectively managed to avoid this
by utilising other spare spaces within the
Centre (for report writing, for instance)
and by being conscious of the impact each
has on another.
There are several multidisciplinary therapy
rooms in the Centre each being utilised
efficiently for individual therapy, group
therapy and community workshops.
Additional spare ‘floating’ laptops to take
into therapy rooms would be beneficial
for therapists and admin staff while in the
Centre.
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CENTRE
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