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About OzChild Outreach
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Outreach Services provides assistance to schools and their communities to:

  • support students to maximise their full potential;
  • be proactive in the early identification of students experiencing educational, home and related issues that will impact on their persons capacity to learn;
  • assist with the development of individualised programs for students with learning difficulties, school adjustment and/or special needs across early, middle and later years of schooling;
  • work preventatively with students to build resilience, coping and motivational skills;
  • provide professional development and training to schools and their communities on a wide variety of topics according to need - these could be full day presentations and workshops to after school meetings, mentoring and/or supervision.

Professional services and projects are contracted on a cost recovery basis only. To discuss possibilities, needs, service design, costings and logistics please contact us.

OzChild's Outreach Programs and services enable children and young people to develop into confident and resilient individuals, with effective relationships and positive life directions, and include:

Education service

The Education Service supports schools and their communities and provides educational employment opportunities to qualified professional welfare staff and allied health professionals.

Language and literacy support

Lift Off With Language

Lift Off With Language is an early intervention program to promote phonemic awareness in Prep and early grade students with proven results in developing children's literacy skills.

Lifestyles

The Lifestyles program aims for sustainable behavioural change through transforming community attitudes towards nutrition and exercise. It empowers parents to make better choices for their family's health by developing a charter for action. There are two streams available:
  1. Mainstream program (Healthy & Active Families)
  2. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander program designed specifically for the Indigenous community.

Opt In

The Opt In program delivers optimistic thinking skills for children who have experienced early childhood trauma.

Training for teachers

OzChild specialist staff can develop and provide specific student wellbeing to support teachers, eg. behaviour management, learning difficulties, managing specific disorders and developing resilience skills in young people.

Proactive programs

Bright Ideas

Bright Ideas is an eight-session program designed to teach students the skills of optimistic thinking. It is suitable for class groups of students in Years 5, 6 and 7.

The Best of Coping

The Best of Coping is a resilience program aimed at teaching young people the basic skills of coping. Suitable for 13 to 18 year olds, It is based on research into coping and on soundly established cognitive-behavioural psychological principles.

Peer Activity Leaders program (PAL)

PAL is a leadership training program for 12-13 year olds who will work in a peer support framework carrying out physical activities to small groups of primary aged students. PAL programs in your school can increase peer relationships, provide a safer environment, increase physical activity and decrease bullying and suspensions and all in all lead to positive changes in school culture.

School community partnerships

School Focused Youth Services (SFYS)

This service fosters positive school-community partnerships and programs for young people at risk, helping to develop resilience and well being.

Community Victorian Certificate of Applied Learning (CVCAL)

CVCAL supports young people re-engage with education and link with further training and employment options.