Please join us next week at 4.00pm for our AGM, followed by our partyto celebrate the Centre providing services to women of the Illawarra for the past 30 years!
With a 1980’s theme: big hair, fluoro gym wear, french onion dip, and great memories of the past its going to be lots of fun! We look forward to seeing you here.
The Illawarra Women’s Health Centre team
RSVP (for catering purposes): Monday 24th Oct 4255 6800
It’s AGM time again and you maybe planning to engage new board members for your organisation or need to refresh current board members skills.
The Good Governance; Essential Board training is a great foundation for new board members and has been updated to include amendments to the Associations Incorporation Act (2009) and the new Regulation (2016) that began on 1 September 2016. If you have already attended this training you may like to refer a friend or colleague to the training.
In response to a number of requests we have also designed a Fabulous Finances course for board members covering understanding financial reports, budgeting, and risk and fraud prevention. This training is a must for all board members – not just Treasurers.
The Foundations of Facilitation training is on next week. Whether you are chairing board meetings, groups or simply meeting to plan a project, the skills you learn in this training will enable you to become a dynamic facilitator.
Click the links below to book training
Click here for information on all Illawarra Forum Training opportunities.
The Illawarra Forum offers generous discounts on training fees for members. If your organisation is not a member you may wish to take advantage of member’s rates by becoming a member online. Click here for more information.
Its our 30th birthday (and our AGM!)
This year, we at the Illawarra Women’s Health Centre are celebrating our 30th Anniversary (est 1986)!
We have provided essential support to women over three decades in the Illawarra. So please come along and help us celebrate on Wednesday 26th October at 4pm.
If you would like, please bring a plate of your favourite 80’s food (french onion dip anyone?) and dress for the occasion. We will be here to greet you in our very best flouro and big hair with a plate of frankfurters.
If you know of anybody that has been involved in the Centre over the last 30 years and would like to attend please pass on the details.
We’d love to hear their stories on the day!
This year, we at the Illawarra Women’s Health Centre are celebrating our 30th Anniversary (est 1986)!
We have provided essential support to women over three decades in the Illawarra. So please come along and help us celebrate on Wednesday 26th October at 4pm.
If you would like, please bring a plate of your favourite 80’s food (french onion dip anyone?) and dress for the occasion. We will be here to greet you in our very best flouro and big hair with a plate of frankfurters.
If you know of anybody that has been involved in the Centre over the last 30 years and would like to attend please pass on the details. We’d love to hear their stories on the day!
Our AGM will be held Wednesday 11th November 2015 at the fabulous new SYFS Shellharbour Hub from 10am.
The AGM will feature guest speaker Mark Isaacs – author of The Undesirables described on ABC’s Big Ideas as “a gobsmacking eyewitness account of the shambles and the shame that is Australia’s offshore processing policy”.
Mark will speak about his time working in Nauru from 2012.
In October 2012, Mark was employed by the Salvation Army to work at the Nauru Regional Processing Centre. He eventually resigned from the Salvation Army in June 2013 and spoke out publicly against the government’s No Advantage policy.
Mark’s book, The Undesirables, accounts for his time inside one of Australia’s most infamous detention centres. Since leaving Nauru, Mark continued his passion for humanitarian work and was employed for two years as a social worker at an asylum seekers settlement agency in Sydney. He is now traveling the world as a freelance writer.
This is a free event
Register here or by clicking the link on the attached invitation.
9.00am – 10.30am FamS Innovative Practice forum
Our Innovative Practice forums aim to increase knowledge about best practice approaches that contribute to better outcomes for children and families. This forum will focus on both the research and practice behind how we can better support children and families when there is parental substance misuse. Dr Stephanie Taplin is the Associate Director of Institute of Child Protection Studies (ICPS) at the Australian Catholic University and she will discuss her research around parental substance use and child protection.
Kerry Moore is the Senior Manager at Barnardos, South Coast Centre and Hunter/ Central Coast. Kerry will provide a practical example of the work Barnados are doing in their Substance Use in Pregnancy and Parenting Service (SUPPS).
For all information – click here
11.00am – 11.30am FamS Annual General Meeting
The NSW Family Services constitution provides for the election of half of the members of the Board of Governance every year. The term of appointment is two years.
This year, calls for nomination are required for the positions of Chairperson, and Ordinary Board Member (three positions to be filled).
If you are interested in nominating for a position on the NSW Family Services Board of Governance you should complete the forms that were recently sent to your via email and then return them in accordance with the instructions contained on Nomination Form.
If more nominations are received than positions available, a postal ballot of eligible members will be held in accordance with the provisions of our constitution.
11.30am – 4.00pm FamS District Reps Forum
For more infromation on these forums please contact our office:
Illawarra Interagency 