Ethnic Child Care - about us

Ethnic Child Care, Family & Community Services Co-op Ltd (ECCF&CS)

Building 3, 142 Addison Road, Marrickville, NSW 2204

Telephone: (02) 9569 1288, Fax: (02) 9564 2772

Email: coop@eccfcsc.org

http://www.eccfcsc.org/

ECCF&CS is a non-profit community based organisation. ECCF&CS provides information, resources, referral, advocacy, consultation, training, support and assistance in the areas of children, disability and aged services in order to ensure that every Australian from non-English speaking background is provided with the opportunity to participate and receive services relevant to their linguistic, cultural and religious needs.

The Co-op sponsors the following programs:

Ethnic Child Care Development Unit (ECCDU): A state-wide program that provides information, referral & advocacy services to NESB children and their families to enhance their opportunities to access children’s services and also assists children’s services professionals with information, training, support and make input into Departmental policies in regard to children’s services at all three levels.

Casual Ethnic Workers Pool (CEWP): A state-wide program to integrate & include NESB children, NESB children with disabilities into children services. It assists NESB children in their settling in period in children’s services by providing one to one hands support, language assistance and culturally appropriate activities through a pool of bilingual/bicultural workers. It also conducts a VETAB accredited Multicultural and Multicultural Disability Certificate courses for the workers.

Ethnic Children’s Services Workers Program (ECSW): A state-wide program which recruits and trains potential NESB carers, links them to Family Day Care Scheme to NESB families.

SUPS: Aims to increase access and participation of children with additional needs in the Inner City of Ashfield, Burwood, Drummoyne, Concord and Strathfield. It provides training, support, information, resources to increase the skills of children’s services staff. The program promotes Multicultural, Disability & Aboriginal perspectives and culturally and developmentally appropriate children services program.

Multicultural Respite Services (MRS): Provides recreational activities to children and adults with disabilities who live in the Marrickville/Canterbury region.

Vacation Care Program: Provides vacation care for children with disabilities. One to one care is provided to children who have high needs.

Ethnic Access Program (EAP): The program aims to identify gaps and barriers experienced by people from NESB in receiving HACC services relevant to their needs. This is achieved through placement of an Ethnic Access Officer in HACC funded organisations. The program facilitates the development and implementation of policies to enhance access opportunities for NESB people, and to ensure equity of outcome in service provision. The focus areas include Structural Development (development of policies & procedures), Community Development (networking & promotion) and training of staff/volunteers (on cultural diversity). The geographic areas covered include:

• St. George,

• Inner West,

• Eastern Sydney and Northern Sydney
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Eastern Sydney Multicultural Access Project (ESMAP): Covering the Local Government areas of Botany Bay, Randwick, South Sydney, Sydney, Waverley and Woollahra. The project is designed to facilitate and enhance service access and equity to HACC funded services for the culturally and linguistically diverse communities in that area. The project aims to ensure that HACC funded service providers and the related health and aged care packages are relevant to the needs of the targeted groups. The project focuses on service evaluation, structural development, community development activities and promotion strategies and cross cultural training for management, staff and volunteers.

Ethnic People with Disabilities Program (EPDP): A community development program funded by the NSW Ageing and Disability Department, EPDP aims to create awareness and understanding of disability and multicultural issues within NESB communities, Government Departments and ethnic and disability service providers. It aims to ensure that services are culturally and linguistically relevant and accessible to non-English speaking background people with disabilities (NESB), their families and carers. EPDP provides information and support to NESB people with disabilities and encourages development of support networks. It also aims to increase access to disability services by people with disability from a NESB through information provision, training, ongoing support and consultation.

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