This is a Project funded by the Federal Government under their Stronger Families and Communities Strategy - Local Answers. It is auspiced by our service and enables us to build capacity within our community to support families as they raise their young children.
The Griffith Connections: Creating Opportunities For Family project will involve a multi-faceted approach to family and parent support, including: home visits; small workshops and focus groups; providing information on parenting and the local community in identified new immigrant home languages; support from qualified early childhood staff; drawing together volunteers from different social, economic and cultural backgrounds to work with families; and the use of a variety of information delivery mechanisms.
Through these diverse approaches, the project aims to provide opportunities for disadvantaged Griffith families to become capable, resourceful and resilient and to promote the healthy development of their children.
The project will also seek to increase the access of all Griffith families, especially those from diverse cultural and linguistic backgrounds, to appropriate support programmes.
The project will raise community awareness of the changing role of the family and of the issues that impact on families, young people and children within the Griffith community.
Griffith LGA is the fastest growing rural community in NSW, attracting families from diverse cultural and linguistic backgrounds as well as young families seeking opportunities for work. A large percentage of children born each year have a parent born in a non-English speaking country. A significant number of young children in Griffith do not speak English as their main language at home
