Thank you CREATE Volunteers!

Support for National Children's Commissioner

National Volunteer Week (14-20 May) is the largest celebration of volunteers and volunteerism in Australia, and provides an opportunity to highlight the role of volunteers in our communities and to say thank you to the more than 6 million Australians who volunteer. Australian volunteers are essential to society, and many charities would struggle to survive without the support of their volunteers. CREATE Foundation would like to thank all the amazing men and women who volunteer for us and make so much of our work possible.

 

For more information on National Volunteer Week or to register to volunteer on behalf of CREATE check out the website www.govolunteer.com.au.

 

 

 


 

CREATE Foundation welcomes the recent move from the Australian

Government to introduce a National Children’s Commissioner. 

The appointment of a Commissioner is a key action listed in the

National Framework for Protecting Australian Children 2009-2020. 

The Government has committed to establishing the office before

the end of 2012. CREATE Foundation CEO, Jacqui Reed,

highlighted the importance of consulting with children and young

people in determining the role and functions of the

National Children’s Commissioner.

  

“Meaningful consultation with children and young people is not only

a responsibility of the National Children’s Commissioner, but it is

both timely and of paramount importance  that the children and young

people who the system is designed to care for have a say

in the development of the legislation and policies that underpin the role,”

stated Ms Reed. 

 

 

 

CREATE Your Future Grant Scheme

National Families Week

Are you aged 15 - 25? CREATE could grant you between

$250 & $3000 towards achieving your dreams! 

Click here to find out how you can apply for the 2012

CREATE Your Future Grant Scheme. 

Applications Now Open and close June 29th! 

 

In National Families Week 2012, everyone is encouraged to think

about the valuable role families play in helping children to develop,

learn and grow, and to reflect on the influence families have on a

child’s wellbeing.  This years theme is Families Make All the

Difference:  Helping Kids to Grow and Learn, and the week also

coincides with the UN International Day of Families on

Tuesday 15 May. 

 

For children and young people in care, their experience of ‘family’

may be quite different than their peers who are not in care.  They

may have some contact with their natural parents or no contact

at all.  They may have stable placements with carers that they

may consider to be like ‘family’ or they may move around, living

in several different households and sometimes for only short

periods of time.  Some children and young people in care get

to live with other relatives and in the same place as their

siblings, but there are many who find themselves in an unfamiliar

place without anyone around who they would call ‘family’.  

CREATE Foundation acknowledges the role that families play

in the development and growth of children and young people. 

CREATE also recognises the vital role that siblings, grandparents

and other relatives and carers play in the lives of children and

young people in care.

 

Families Australia states that “Families are the foundation for

shaping children’s physical, social, emotional and cognitive

development”.  When families are unable to provide this

foundation, it is imperative that the community steps in to ensure

that each child or young person is provided with a nurturing

environment that ensures they have every opportunity to develop

and reach their full potential. 

 

This National Families Week, CREATE urges people to

consider the lives of children and young people in care and

celebrate the diversity of family experiences that support the

growth, development, and learning of children and young

people in care.

 

For more information about National Families Week please

go to the Families Australia website at www.familiesaustralia.org.au/familiesweek.

 

 

 



 

 


 

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