Seymour
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Sustained implementation – Step Five
bookmarksSite priorities
- Children are engaged and supported in their learning.
- Connecting families to services.
- Families are connected and involved in their children’s learning.
- Improve adult learning and employment opportunities.
groups Site Partnership Group
Seymour College, Kids First Australia, Mitchell Shire Council, Department of Education, Department of Families, Fairness and Housing, Nexus primary Health, Family Care and Colman Education Foundation (Our Place).
attach_money Funding Partner
The William Buckland Foundation, as managed by Equity Trustees.
>3,665
attendances in 2023
An attendance happens each time a person attends a service or activity.
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- Access to services: Increased numbers of children accessing services through the partnership with Nexus Primary Health Care. Nexus has reported a 30% decrease in Failure to Attend figures since commencing the delivery of allied health through the hub model based at Seymour College.
- Enrolment and attendance: Increase in kindergarten enrolments for 2024 and an improvement in school attendance.
- Support for new parents: Our Place successfully implemented Baby College in partnership with Family Care and Kids First Australia. The program supports vulnerable mothers from the third trimester of pregnancy for twelve months. Based on the success of the first year, Baby College will continue through 2024.
- Early literacy: The Paint the Town REaD program, a community-wide early childhood literacy initiative, was commenced by Our Place in collaboration with Seymour Library, Seymour College, Maternal and Child Health, and three local kindergartens.
- All-Abilities Expo: An All-Abilities Expo provided opportunity for connections between families and services. In one case, this gave parents an opportunity to explain a simple procedural barrier to a provider, resulting in the removal of the barrier for all families.
- Parent Engagement: Support increased parent/carer involvement in children’s learning through improved incidental parent engagement and a coordinated program of events and activities co - designed with the school and kindergarten.
- Trauma-informed practice: Deepening the practice of the Berry Street Education Model across the primaryand secondary schools.
- Continuity of Learning: Progressing the implementation of Continuity of Learning practices from 3-year-old kindergarten through to the primary school.
- Paediatric services: Negotiating for monthly paediatric clinics in the multi-disciplinary setting of the Our Place Family and Children’s Centre.
- Adult engagement and pathways: Increase the number of families who are engaged and actively participating in the community by developing volunteer pathways for parents and carers at the site.