Early Years

Evidence tells us that early childhood services play a significant role in a child’s positive development. Access to maternal and child health services, child care, kindergartens and other programs such as playgroups also provide an opportunity to enhance family participation in their community.

Our Early Years Program seeks to explore the barriers and enablers to inclusion, and to develop strategies to promote full inclusion of families from refugee backgrounds through:

• The provision of resources, professional learning opportunities and consultancy
• Place-based collaborative projects to establish meaningful dialogue between community members and representatives from the early childhood sector
• Collaborative projects with local and state-wide early childhood education and service providers

Resources

• Building partnerships with families from refugee backgrounds.
• Working effectively with interpreters to support families from refugee backgrounds.
• Supporting Early Years to School transition for children and families from refugee backgrounds during COVID-19

Videos

• Webinar: Supporting Early Years to School transition for children and families from refugee backgrounds during COVID-19
• Kindergarten to School Video Series – Arabic 
• Kindergarten to School Video Series – Dari
• Kindergarten to School Video Series – Dinka 
• Kindergarten to School Video Series – Hakha Chin 
• Kindergarten to School Video Series – Hazaragi
• Kindergarten to School Video Series – Karen 
• Kindergarten to School Video Series – Pashto

Queries

Katherine Cooney
Early Years Program Coordinator
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