Volunteer Hosts for Children with a Disability

Enquiries are invited from families, couples or individuals who can offer a fun and safe environment to support and care for a young child with a disability for 1-2 days each month.

Screening and relevant checks are conducted.

For information phone Virginia at Northern Beaches Interchange on 9970 0506

Play and Language for Autistic Youngsters (PLAY) Workshop by Dr Richard Solomon

Parents and professionals working with children with Autistic Spectrum Disorders are invited to hear Dr Rick Solomon, founder and medical director of The PLAY Project, which entails effective, low cost ways to provide intensive early intervention for children aged 1-7.

No childcare is available at this adult learning event.

8.30am registration for 9am-4pm
Saturday 4 April. PLAY project launch at 4pm.
The Northcott Building, 1 Fennell Street, North Parramatta.

$150 (professional)
$70 (parents/carers)

includes morning tea, lunch, cocktail reception to the official launch of the P.L.A.Y Project in Australia at 4pm.

For information and telephone bookings by 25 March, phone Elizabeth Mead on 9890 0135.

Download application form at www.northcott.com.au, as well as information.

Inside Out

Inside Out is a ground breaking new drama exploring the impact of mental illness on the relationship between a mother and her son.

One in five Australians will directly experience a mental illness in their lifetime, an experience which is deeply personal, often misunderstood and always leaves its mark.

Inside Out is an honest, courageous and compassionate journey into one young man’s mind, to the place where borders are shifting and battle lines are drawn; and into his mother’s struggle to understand what is happening, to maintain her loving relationship with her son, and somehow find a way to help. What do you do when life abruptly turns you upside down, grabs your heart and squeezes it tight? When you need to find all the love, strength and resilience possible?

Courageous, heartbreaking and yet surprisingly funny, Inside Out is a compelling story of love and insight, where realities collide and lives are transformed.

Inside Out will play at the Seymour Centre from May 13 to 30, 2009. Inside Out is directed by Carol Woodrow and produced by Christine Dunstan, starring Tracy Mann and Lindsay Farris.

13th – 30th May
Everest Theatre at the Seymour Centre
cnr City Road & Cleveland Streets, Chippendale

Mon 6.30pm
Tues – Wed 11am
Wed – Fri 8pm
Sat 5pm & 8.30pm

Performance is 90 minutes duration with no interval
Bookings by phone on 02 9351 7940 or www.seymourcentre.com.au

Indigenous Community Volunteers (ICV)

Indigenous Community Volunteers (ICV) is a not-for-profit, non-government organisation. ICV help Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians harness opportunities and assets available to them to overcome social and economic disadvantage through community and human development projects. We are helping to ‘close the gap’ on Indigenous disadvantage. ICV works in partnership with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people - we do things ‘with’ them, not ‘to’ them or ‘for’ them.

ICV vision is to be the peak development NGO for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians.

For more information go to: www.ICV.com.au

International Exchange Fair

Thursday 19th March, 2009
11am – 3pm – MacLaurin Hall (The Quadrangle) Free Entry!!!

Study Overseas as part of your University of Sydney Degree

· Meet representatives from our world-wide network of partner universities
· Learn about our programs at over 230 universities in over 30 countries
· Undergraduate and Postgraduate Studies
· Courses in English and other languages
· Scholarships and loans available

Ever thought about enriching your university experience by studying overseas and still graduate on time with a University of Sydney degree? Now is your chance to obtain valuable first hand information from Overseas Partner Universities, Consulates and exchange students at The University of Sydney International Exchange Fair.

Questions like :

* Where can I go?
* When I can go?
* Which university do I choose?
* What is a particular university like?
* Experiences of students from that University and University of Sydney students who went on exchange there?
* How will exchange benefit me?
* How can I apply for financial support?

For more information about the Exchange Fair, please contact:

International Exchange Program
International Office, Jane Foss Russell Building G02
Level 4 (Next to Wentworth Building)
Tel: 02 8627 8322
Fax:02 8627 8390
Email: exchange@io.usyd.edu.au
Web: http://www.usyd.edu.au/current_students/student_exchange/fair.shtml

Become a member - OT Australia NSW

OT Australia NSW - Have you joined yet?

Click here to read more about OT Australia NSW and the benefits of student membership

As a member you can take advantage of professional mentoring and apply for student scholarships to attend the OT Australlia NSW state conference.

You can download the 2009 Student Membership form here.

The Indigenous Allied Health Australia website has website members pages where Indigenous and non-Indigenous allied health professionals and students can:

• be in touch with each other (there's a Website Members Directory)
• join in discussions on a range of topics
• post articles for others to access
• view articles and informative documents

If you are an Indigenous allied health professional or student we would appreciate you joining and swelling our ranks. There are website pages for Indigenous participants' discussions, planning and networking.

Read more

8th NATIONAL ALLIED HEALTH CONFERENCE 25-27 October 2009

Allied Health Professions Australia will auspice the next Allied Health National Conference, in Canberra in August 2009. Built around the theme – ‘Allied Health Leading Change’ this event will be a major opportunity to focus on the crucial role of allied health professionals at the forefront of Australian health care.

Visit www.nahconference2009.com.au for more information about the conference and www.visitcanberra.com.au to find out more about Canberra.