Community Notices 

GV Libraries School Holiday Activities

School Holidays are fast approaching, and GV Libraries have their program of activities ready to go.

All the activities will be appearing on their website (www.gvlibraries.com.au/holidays) over the coming days.

Families can also drop into any one of GV libraries and pick up a program booklet.

Take Home craft packs will be available again these holidays.

Grab one from 11th – 23rd April in all GV Libraries. 

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Life Without Barriers

• Life Without Barriers is a leading not-for-profit social purpose organisation supporting over 23,000 people in more than 530 communities across Australia. 
• Life Without Barriers is one of Australia’s largest providers of therapeutic care for children in care and a trusted partner of state and territory governments in the provision of child, youth, and family services. Having over 30 years of experience in working with children, young people and their families, currently caring for 2,145 children and young people who live in a range of settings across Australia, including 1,987 living in family-based care and 158 young people in therapeutic residential care homes across Australia. 
• We urgently need foster carers in our areas to care for children and young people in need to of foster home until they can return to their families.
• We are actively seeking carers from all walks of life, cultural backgrounds, and family types – singles, couples, with or without children, including same sex couples to provide safe, nurturing, and stable homes for children and young people unable to live safely with their families. We also want people to know that foster carers work as part of a care team, and this means they can continue to work in their full time or part time jobs.
• As the need for child protection services increases, so too does the urgent need for more carers.  All children and young people have the need to belong. When we are dealing with children in care, the ability to connect a child or young person to culture and language is vitally important and provides a fantastic foundation for becoming a carer. The impacts of instability in a young person’s life and how their lives can turn around for the better with the right home, guidance, and nurture. The difference foster care makes.
• LWB provide care for children and young people requiring general, intensive and complex care placements, including emergency and respite care. Our service delivery model focuses on the individual needs of each child or young person as they change over time.