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Premier opens Waitara Family Centre<br />
Celebrating National Families Week 2013<br />
Celebrating National Families<br />
Week, Premier Barry<br />
O’Farrell, local Member for<br />
Ku-ring-gai, joined Fr Vince Casey,<br />
Vicar-General, <strong>Diocese</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>Broken</strong><br />
<strong>Bay</strong> and Member for Hornsby,<br />
Matt Kean for the <strong>of</strong>ficial opening<br />
<strong>of</strong> CatholicCare’s newly refurbished<br />
Family Centre at 29 Yardley Ave<br />
WAITARA on Thursday, 16 May.<br />
“Balancing the demands <strong>of</strong> being<br />
a family in 2013 can be exhausting,<br />
bewildering and even beyond<br />
our own resources at times,” said<br />
Deirdre Cheers, Executive Director<br />
<strong>of</strong> CatholicCare and National<br />
Families Week Ambassador.<br />
“This new Family Centre, co-locating<br />
a 67 place Early Learning<br />
Centre within Waitara Family<br />
Centre’s existing services will help<br />
to support families living in our<br />
local Hornsby – Ku-ring-gai area<br />
to get the balance right.”<br />
In 2011-2012 Waitara Family<br />
Centre assisted 1225 families,<br />
including 1753 children. Each week<br />
200 children are enrolled in the<br />
Waitara Family Day Care service<br />
and the Family Centre’s 60 place<br />
Out <strong>of</strong> Hours School Care and<br />
Vacation Care program assists 100<br />
families each term.<br />
Waitara Family Centre programs<br />
and services are funded with the<br />
support <strong>of</strong> the Australian, NSW<br />
and local governments. This<br />
support builds on a continuing<br />
partnership between the non-government<br />
sector and government,<br />
supporting families in the local<br />
community, and building healthier<br />
and more sustainable community<br />
relationships.<br />
This year’s National Family<br />
Week theme, ‘Families working<br />
together: Getting the balance<br />
right’, encourages everyone to<br />
think about ways we can work<br />
together to achieve happy and<br />
healthy lifestyles.<br />
The new Waitara Family Centre<br />
is a major service centre and<br />
resource hub for families in the<br />
Northern Sydney region and will<br />
make integrated services, designed<br />
to be family-focused and person-centred,<br />
as well as responsive<br />
to individual and family needs,<br />
more accessible and available to all<br />
in the community.<br />
“Every Australian can share in<br />
the responsibility <strong>of</strong> helping families<br />
to “get the balance right” by participating<br />
in their local community,<br />
looking out for others, and lending<br />
a hand when the opportunity arises”,<br />
says Ms Cheers.<br />
“Many <strong>of</strong> our children are living<br />
in families where life can be<br />
tough, so caring adults such as foster<br />
carers, neighbours and friends<br />
can make a difference. Especially<br />
now in Families Week, let’s all take<br />
the time to work together to get<br />
the best balance in all life’s activities.<br />
When families work together,<br />
everyone benefits.”<br />
CatholicCare Family Centres are<br />
located at Waitara, Naremburn and<br />
Brookvale, as well as Warnervale on<br />
the Central Coast. More information<br />
is available on the website at<br />
www.catholiccaredbb.org.au<br />
EARLY LEARNING AND CARE<br />
• Forestville<br />
• Waitara<br />
• Lake Munmorah<br />
• Terrigal<br />
OUTSIDE SCHOOL HOURS CARE<br />
• East Gosford • Lake Munmorah<br />
• Forestville<br />
• Mona Vale<br />
• Freshwater<br />
• Pymble<br />
• Waitara<br />
• West Pymble<br />
OUT OF HOME CARE<br />
• Kariong<br />
• Pennant Hills
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