Future planning workshop for carers
Do you provide care and support to a family member or friend who needs your assistance? Are you wanting to plan for the future? If you answered yes to both these questions, then a future planning workshop run by Carer Gateway may be for you. The free workshop will be held on Thursday, 23 February
Nurse-led wound clinic commences at Port Macquarie pharmacy
Plunketts TerryWhite Chemmart at Port Macquarie has a new nurse-led wound clinic available to community members. The wound clinic is run by experienced registered nurses two days a week – Tuesdays and Fridays from 8:30am to 5:00pm. The service is offered as ‘walk-in’ and can also be booked by phoning (02) 6584 0044. Nurses will
Transport support for country patients
St Vincent’s Clinic’s Open Support program is offering transport help to people from rural and regional areas who need to travel to Sydney for medical care. In a bid to take away some of the stress of navigating the city, Open Support offers a free-of-charge to-and-from transport service between city accommodation and Sydney Airport, or Central Station and bus
Applications open for Active Ageing grants
People aged 60 and over in the Northern Rivers will soon have more options to help them stay fit, with applications now open for the ‘Active Ageing’ grants program. Active Ageing grants are now available to support exercise providers and fitness leaders to provide low-cost exercise programs for people over the age of 60 in
New website helps you find the right language resources
Find a Translation is a free multilingual search engine website for translation resources. Its purpose is to make it easy to find free trusted content in many different languages. Find a Translation does not create the information you find on the website, but enables you to search for information in your preferred language and display
Prepare for the future at Resilient Communities workshops
OzGREEN’s ‘Resilient Communities’ is an empowering program bringing communities together to take action, develop disaster preparedness and create more sustainable and resilient homes and lifestyles. As part of the program, OzGREEN will host two community landscape preparedness days – at Kyogle from 9:30am – 4:00pm on Saturday, 12 November and at Evans Head on Sunday,
Quit smoking: First 2000 Days webinar series
The 12th session of the First 2000 Days Webinar Series aims to provide you with the understanding and confidence to support patients or clients to consider stopping smoking, or help you to assist someone who is on their journey to become smoke free. Registration is essential to attend the workshop. To register, visit the Blue Sky
New support service for communities impacted by flooding
The not-for-profit organisation Social Futures is delivering a new support service – Recovery Connect – for individuals and communities impacted by this year’s floods. Social Futures Chief Executive Tony Davies said the aim of Recovery Connect is to link people to all the services they need. ‘At Recovery Connect you will meet your “recovery linker”,
Go4Fun: supporting families to stay active, eat well and live a healthy life
Go4Fun is a free after school program for children aged 7 to 13 who are above a healthy weight, and their families. Term 4 programs are starting soon and registrations for children aged between 7 and 13 who are above a healthy weight are now being taken. Contact 1800 780 900 or visit www.go4fun.com.au to register.
Northern NSW set to benefit from local healthy lifestyle initiatives
People across Northern NSW are to benefit from a grants scheme that will see a number of schools, community groups and organisations receive up to $5,000 for initiatives to support them in promoting a healthy lifestyle. The ‘Healthy and Well’ grants scheme, which opened on 19 September, supports community groups to launch or grow initiatives
Identifying hearing loss in children aged over 4
Most parents and carers won’t be aware of the need to check the hearing of their children after the newborn hearing screening test. With an estimated 1 in 10 children starting school with some form of hearing loss (including sensorineural and conductive loss and difficulty hearing in noise), a child’s hearing health needs to be considered
‘The First 2000 Days’ webinar 6: nutrition and feeding
The First 2000 Days webinar series has been designed to build the capacity of health professionals and non-government organisation service providers who support families and young children in the first 2000 days of life. This session is scheduled for 17 August, 10:00am–11:30am. It will focus on child nutrition and the importance of forming short and
