YWCA NSW

YWCA NSW - Encore Media Release

YWCA ENCORE - PROUDLY CELEBRATING 25 YEARS IN AUSTRALIA

Please click here for the media release

Aborginal Women's Health & Wellbeing - the Y Community Consultation

Lesley Russell, Menzies Centre for Health Policy: presentation & speech.

Jo Willmot: speech.

Denele Crozier, Executive Officer, Women's Health NSW: speech.

Media coverage from Aboriginal & Torres Straight Is Health & Wellbeing consultation:

- Koori Mail - week of 22 Sept, interview with Lillian Holt

- Wentworth Courier Health Journal - info & image on website 15 Sept

- SBS Radio Indigenous Program with Lola Forester - live interview with Lillian Holt, 12.30pm, 15 Sept.

VETAB Re-registration is successful

It is with excitement that we have the opportunity to announce that the YWCA NSW's Training Division has successfully re-registered as a training provider this month. The audits with VETAB took place at the Sydney and Parramatta sites,  they inspected sample student records, assessment and training tools as well as inspected our facilities.

Made it through this process without a non-compliance, the YWCA NSW now has had all the additions to our scope approved (please go to NTIS to view scope) and is now registered until the 28 October 2013.

This process involved numerous staff members from offices state wide, all of whom should be congratulated. A special mention should be made to Caecilia Roth our training manager who prepared the foundations for this process and spent many months preparing for the audits prior to her maternity leave.

YWCA Annual Reports

Following are links to download the YWCA Annual Reports:

Click here to download the 2006/2007 YWCA Annual Report

Click here to download the 2005/2006 YWCA Annual Report

Click here to download the 2004/2005 YWCA Annual Report

Y Files Magazine

Following are links to download the YWCA Y Files Magazines:

Click here to download The Y Files - Issue 7

Click here to download The Y Files - Issue 6

Click here to download The Y Files - Issue 5

Click here to download The Y Files - Issue 4

Click here to download The Y Files - Issue 3

Y CAN Newsletter

Following are links to download the YWCA Y CAN Newsletter:

Click here to download Y CAN - Issue 4

Click here to download Y CAN - Issue 3

MakingCents at the top of its class

The brainchild of the Finance First partnership – a non-profit collaboration between leading financial institution Citi and YWCA NSW – MakingCents is a program of financial literacy that aims to provide primary school children with the basics of good money management.

A team of leading educators including Associate Professor Christine Halse of the Centre for Educational Research, University of Western Sydney (UWS), recently conducted a thorough evaluation of the MakingCents program, including interviews with parents and teaching staff. The results of this review were overwhelmingly positive with the provision of outstanding teaching resources receiving noteworthy praise.

Ron Bunker Chair of Citi and the Finance First partnership points out, “These days children are more likely to see parents using ATMs and credit cards leaving the impression that our store of cash is unlimited – an outlook that has the potential to seriously jeopardise the next generations’ chance of growing into sensible money managers.”

Far from being alarmist, this view is backed up by many of the teachers involved in the delivery of the MakingCents for students program. As one teacher noted,

Teacher feedback during the evaluation of MakingCents underpins the need for financial education among Australian children. Technology has changed our handling of money, and growing numbers of children simply do not understand where money comes from, with many seeing ATMs as offering an unlimited supply of money.

However participation in the MakingCents program opened young eyes to the realities of day to day money management – and many teachers were surprised at the readiness of young children to grasp basic financial concepts.

Gayle Osborne, Head of Community Services and Program, YWCA NSW, says, “The readiness with which we can access cash ‘on the plastic’ these days is creating false impressions in young minds about an apparently endless supply of money”.

The MakingCents for students program is aimed at dispelling these myths by providing basic skills in budgeting and saving. But it goes one step further by running a MakingCents for Parents program in tandem with classroom learning.

Parents and teachers interested in the adopting the MakingCents program can access a range of freely available learning materials on the program’s website www.makingcents.com.au. The website also features a number of financial tools including a budget calculator.

Click here to the MakingCents Page.

International Women's Day

International Women's Day is a day to celebrate the gains women have made over the years and to bring our attention to the issues that still face us.

Most of all, it's a day to recognise that we, as women, have made and continue to make a difference. A day to celebrate women's contribution to making Australia and the world a better place for everyone.

Make your contribution to a better world
Join (link to membership form) the special community of women and be part of an organisation that is changing lives and communities around the world.   

"I Joined YWCA to be a part of a special community of women who are changing lives and communities. Make an active contribution to your community? Join YWCA."  Rachel Ward

International Women’s Day Partners
Wel NSW - welnsw.org.au
The Office for Women - www.women.nsw.gov.au/WhatsNew/iwd.htm
OWN NSW - www.ownnsw.org.au

New YWCA Patron - Rachel Ward

Rachel Ward has been the Patron of the Mother of All Balls an event she established in 2004 to raise money for mentoring through Big Brothers Big Sisters and Aunties and Uncles. Rachel has been a mentor for many years and is very committed to promoting these benefits as well as encouraging people to make active contributions through volunteering.

Through her ongoing involvement with the YWCA Rachel has continued to be impressed and surprised by the range and quality of our community services and has agreed much to our delight to put her face and weight behind our organisation.