Jane Hanckel

Pamela Simon

Joselyn Anderson

Spirit of Childhood Foundation

Inspir=EdSuccessful

Indigenous Children’s Programs

Creating a powerful learning environment

for children and parents

The Inspir=Ed Project covers objectives across social wellbeing, health promotion,

employment and training, childhood development and parent education. ……a proven model which makes positive social

change for the whole of community.

We acknowledge and pay our

respects to the past and present traditional custodians of this land

Principles of the program

Principles of the program

Principles of the program

Training for local

community

Professional

Development

Health & early

childhoodPrograms in

community

Creating strong and resilient

children, families,

community

Learning Outcome 1: Children have a strong sense of identity and wellbeing

• Children feel safe, secure, and supported

• Children develop their emerging autonomy, inter-dependence, resilience and sense of agency

• Children develop knowledgeable and confident self identities

• Children take increasing responsibility for their own health and physical wellbeing

Belonging, Being, and Becoming:Early Years Learning

Framework for Australia

www.deewr.gov.au/Earlychildhood

Outcomes:

Learning Outcome 2:

Children are confident and involved learners

• Children develop dispositions for learning such as curiosity, cooperation, confidence, creativity, commitment, enthusiasm, persistence, imagination and reflexivity

• Children develop a range of skills and processes such as problem solving, inquiry, experimentation, hypothesising, researching and investigating

• Children transfer and adapt what they have learned from one context to another

• Children resource their own learning through connecting with people, technologies and natural and processed materials

www.deewr.gov.au/Earlychildhood/

Outcome 3:

Children are effective communicators

• Children interact verbally and non-verbally with others for a range of purposes

• Children engage with a range of printed, visual and multimedia texts and get meaning from these texts

• Children express ideas and make meaning using a range of media

• Children begin to understand how symbols and pattern systems work

• Children use information and communication technologies to access information, investigate ideas and represent their thinking

www.deewr.gov.au/Earlychildhood/

Learning Outcome 4:

Children participate in relationships and communities

• Children learn to interact in relation to others with care, empathy and respect

• Children develop a sense of belonging to groups and communities and an understanding of the reciprocal rights and responsibilities necessary for active civic participation

• Children learn to respond to diversity respectfully

• Children become aware of notions of fairness and social justice, think critically about bias, and learn to take action in unfair situations

• Children learn to respect the environment and develop an understanding of how they can take action to create socially responsible and sustainable futures

Inspir=Ed has ……..

developed a comprehensive evaluation process demonstrating and measuring the effectiveness of different aspects of the program in urban, regional and rural settings.

established a collaborative joint research partnership with the Centre for Equity and Innovation in Early Childhood, Graduate School of Education, University of Melbourne to complete and extend the research

Evaluation of the program

The Inspir=Ed program was introduced at the Tharawal Aboriginal Corporation, an Aboriginal Medical Service in Campbelltown, Sydney, NSW in February 2008.

Tharawal Aboriginal

Corporation

Case Study 1

• Program provides a sensitive and culturally appropriate series of two hour child sensory integration programs.

Tharawal Aboriginal Corporation

Case Study 1

Post Natal Depression/Support “Bonding with Baby”,

A 9 week program ( x 2 hours) for mothers and children focused on building self esteem and confidence

Case Study 2

Lismore Family Support Inc.

• strengthened parents relationship with their children and helped develop parental self-esteem and confidence.

Case Study 2

Outcomes: Post Natal Depression/Support:

Two Day Professional Development Program.

• Increased skills and strategies to engage with hard to reach parents and positively effect parenting knowledge and behaviour.

Case Study 3

Early Intervention Professional

Development – Newcastle

Key Outcomes –

• Improved skills to strengthen early parent-child bonds

• Increased understanding of the ages and stages of child development

• Increased ability to support parents in their social and community connection

Case Study 3

Mt Warning Pre-School

Parent-Child Education Program

A 4 week program (2 hours) for mothers and fathers and children focused on building parent - child relationship and increasing parenting skills.

Case Study 4

Key Outcomes –

• Stronger parent child bonds

• Greater capacity to create nurturing family environments

• Increased parenting skills

• Increased child focused parenting

• Establishment of local facilitator led Inspir=Ed parent-child groups in Murwillumbah.

Case Study 4

Grass Roots ‘Train the Facilitator’ Program Mullumimby, NSW

Case Study 5

Key Outcomes:• Creates local employment• Increases local skills and knowledge• Builds local community capacity• Supports parents and children on local and culturally appropriate level

• Strengthens early parent child bonds• Builds parenting skills

• Increases understanding developmental ages• Strengthens family & community bonds

• Increases parent self-esteem & confidence• Improves parent mental health

• Improves school readiness• Engages hard to reach parents• Engages fathers in parenting

• Increases social connectedness• Increases parent-child enjoyment

• Improves nutrition• Increases parent-child self-esteem and resilience

Inspir=EdSuccessful Indigenous

Children’s Programs Helping to Close the Gap

……making a positive difference in outcomes for children, parents

and communities

Inspir=EdSuccessful Indigenous Children’s Programs