ACWA in the News: Schools as Service Hubs for Collaborative Placed-Based Service Delivery
This article published in The Mandarin highlights the collaborative efforts of the community services and education sectors to improve responses to vulnerable children and families.
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Supporting Vulnerable Kids to Get Active: Here’s How Caseworkers Can Help
With community activities now beginning to resume in the wake of COVID-19, ACWA is eager to remind NGO caseworkers and support staff how easy it is to get the children and young people you are working with involved in sport, recreation and creative pursuits currently available through the NSW Government’s Active Kids and Creative Kids […]
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New Campaign Reminds Community How it Can Help Keep Children Safe
NSW non-profit agencies Fams, Adopt Change and BackTrack Youth Works have launched a public awareness campaign, It takes a village, to highlight the important role the broader community has to play to help keep children safe, during the current pandemic period and beyond. ACWA is pleased to support this joint campaign, which aims to educate […]
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ACWA Sector Development Update: June 22
Welcome to our latest sector update, which highlights several systems reform initiatives that ACWA has been working on with other stakeholders: Establishing a NSW Child and Family Research Advisory Council Late last year, ACWA, the Department of Communities and Justice (DCJ), NCOSS and academics came together to explore the potential benefits of establishing a Research […]
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Research Stocktake Report Makes Case For Establishing NSW Child and Family Research Advisory Council
Late last year, ACWA, the Department of Communities and Justice, NCOSS and academics came together to explore the potential benefits of establishing a Research Council (with the current working title of the NSW Child and Family Research Advisory Council) to provide a platform for the Government, NGO sector and academic institutions to regularly come together […]
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