WHAT WE DO
We are a dynamic organisation constantly changing and responding to the unmet needs of our local community.OUR INITIATIVES
HIPPY
HIPPY (Home Interaction Program for Parents and Youngster) is a free, two-year, home-based early childhood learning program that empowers parents and carers to be their child’s first teacher (pre-school years 3 to 5 years old). Families that live in a HIPPY catchment area start HIPPY the year before school and continue during their first year of school.
The HIPPY curriculum is aligned to the Early Years Learning Framework, the Australian Curriculum and is informed by contemporary learning approaches. HIPPY is designed to fit in with the daily lives of the families, by spending 10 to 15 minutes a day doing education activities with their children. In the first year of HIPPY, families learn skills to get their children ready for school. In the second year, parents learn more about supporting their children’s learning and development at school and at home.
Every local HIPPY Program is supervised by a HIPPY Coordinator who trains and supervises a team of Home Tutors who visit parents in their home. Trained HIPPY Tutors are assigned a cohort of parents (with children in the specific age group) with whom they will work e.g., 3-yo, 4-yo or 5-yo. HIPPY Tutors are:
- Parents or carers involved in HIPPY, either currently or in the past 12-months
- Employed for two years to provide peer support and deliver HIPPY to families by practising HIPPY activities using Role Play.
PLAY GROUPS: PLAY BASED LEARNING
The facilitated playgroups are designed to:
- Support families to give children a good start in life through improved early childhood development, care, education, and school readiness.
- Get children to school.
- Improve literacy and numeracy.
- Support successful transitions to further education and work.
Ngunga’s Playgroup Educators support parents and children through the early years (0-3) with a minimum of 7.5-hours contact every week: 3 x 2.5-hrs sessions. The PG Educators plan and run weekly activities for parents and children based on the Abecedarian Approach to development: provide at-risk children with experience in multiple individualized games, reading sessions, and information-filled caregiving/language interactions with responsive adults. The educators ensure families are engaged with the services, are supported in their child’s development, and are involved in decision-making regarding childhood activities. From this early experience, the child comes to expect to receive adult input, to pay attention, to respond, and to succeed.
Connected Beginnings
The Connected Beginnings Program was developed in response to the Forrest Review of Indigenous Training and Employment – Creating Parity – which recommended that all governments prioritise investment in early childhood, including through progressive investment in integrated early childhood services.
Connected Beginnings draws upon the strength and knowledge of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders communities to increase children’s and families’ engagement with health and early childhood education and care. It improves access to existing early childhood, maternal and child health, and family support services so children are safe, healthy and ready to thrive at school by the age of five.
Ngunga’s Connected Beginnings Family Engagement Officers integrate local support services so children and families can access culturally appropriate support services, including:
- maternal and child health
- early childhood education and care
- family support
- preschools and schools
- local government and council support.
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Our shop has inexpensive clothes and various household items for sale. Drop by to see what we have on offer. We are offering many items at very reasonable prices to our community.
CONTACT US
25 Stanley Street, Derby WA 6728 | P.O. Box 642 Derby WA 6728
EMAIL: reception2@ngunga.com.au
TELEPHONE: 08 9193 1455
