Supporter Spring 2024
Community service and forging connections A new partnership between AnglicareSA’s Youth Services team and St John’s Grammar School in Belair is helping create a sense of connection while potentially uncovering the community services workforce of the future.
A fun and friendly focus
AnglicareSA’s Stronger Together and Thriving Families programs have been working together on fun and interactive activities, getting their hands dirty, hearts pumping, and creating magical memories. The first day of activities was a blend of creativity and culinary fun with the morning spent with the Art of Expression team in a workshop where young people expressed themselves through various mediums, including drawing, painting, and clay work. They then turned their hands to the kitchen and whipped up pizzas for lunch. The second day was all about the physical challenge of Ninja Warrior and inflatable obstacle course at SA Base Camp in Kilburn. The program, planned, and facilitated in collaboration with our Participation and Wellbeing team and Integrated Family Services staff, provided an opportunity for young people to learn new social skills, meet new friends, and gain confidence while discovering new interests. The Stronger Together program provides tailored interventions to families with children or young people at imminent risk. Thriving Families builds a caregiving community that is tailored to local need, and is collaborative, strengths based and trauma informed to meet a child and family’s developmental and recovery needs.
St John’s Grammar School Assistant Head of Senior School, Brady Lloyd, said the school believed in the importance of providing students with an opportunity to look beyond their own worlds and was thankful for the
It was all about school holiday fun, from whipping up a double batch of brownies, or having a kick with a couple of AFLW Crows stars, to arts, crafts, and games, as St John’s Grammar students led activities for 12 young people living in out-of-home care across Adelaide. AnglicareSA Participation and Wellbeing Coordinator, Rebecca Walker, said the partnership between Youth Services and St John’s Grammar supporting children in out-of-home care was based on mutual aspirations. “The school, through its Leader of Wellbeing Danielle Kemp, was looking for a service opportunity for students which was meaningful and a way for them to feel like they were giving back to the community,” Rebecca said. “At the same time, our team was looking for ways to provide a program for young people living in out-of-home care across Adelaide where they could come along and meet other young people who are there to support and mentor them. “We also wanted them to be able to hang out and meet other kids who, like them, are living in out-of-home care through various agencies. “This is an opportunity for them to connect with others and build a sense of community.”
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project was also a chance for students to gain exposure and understanding of more career options open to them in the community services sector, Rebecca said. “Just like with our other programs we see the ripple effect of these kinds of experiences in terms of developing a greater understanding of the need in the community as well as possibly choosing different career paths,” she said.
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