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 Traineeship resources

CHC50302 (Diploma of Children’s Services) – Sample pages of the Trainee, RTO and Workplace Supervisor guides.

 Web resources

Australian Drug Foundation (ADF) - works to reduce alcohol & drug problems using the media and other communications to influence public policy, law and legislation.

Australian Institute of Family Studies - provides research projects information, publications, resources, a library, links and other information. 

Child Care Choices - a collaboration project between several universities, government & the Australian Institute of Family Studies.

Child & Youth Health - information & resources from the Australian Department of Health & Ageing.

Children's Picture Book Database - gives teachers, librarians, parents, and students a place for designing literature-based thematic units for all subjects.

Children's Services NSW - provides a range of resources and links.

ChildStudy.net - provides a tutorial on classic theories of child development as well as articles about parenting babies, toddlers, and young children.

Department of Families, Community Services & Indigenous Affairs (FaCSIA) -  provides services and assistance to promote healthy family relationships and gives families the opportunities to take part in their local communities.

Department of Health and Ageing - provides manuals for purchase &/or download including Standards & Guidelines for Residential Aged Care Services.

Druginfo - the NSW Government site on drug issues outlines policies, provides factsheets on drugs, information on legal issues, plus information on the role of parents, families, and the broader community in reducing drug abuse.

EdNA: Early Childhood Education - provides news, events & resources for teachers, parents, child care workers and child care providers.

EdNA: School Education - provides a collection of websites suitable for students, parents and teachers, supporting all key learning areas of the curriculum.

Family Court of Australia - provides information about the Court's services, costs &  procedures as well as a range of brochures & booklets.

Future of Children - promotes effective policies and programs for children by providing policymakers, service providers, and the media with timely, objective information based on the best available research.

Mental Health & Wellbeing - information & resources from the Australian Department of Health & Ageing.

Multicultural Mental Health Australia (MMHA) - has a range of books & resources.

National Child Protection Clearinghouse (NCPC) - collects, produces & distributes information/resources, conducts research & offers specialist advice on the latest developments in child abuse prevention, child protection and associated violence.

NSW Department of Community Services (DoCS) - provides a large range of news & publications including fact sheets, brochures & reports.

NSW Government: Health - access information about health conditions, groups & organisations, healthy living as well as many links.

NSW Health - provides a range of publications & reports including fact sheets.

Parenting NSW - aims to strengthen families and promote the safety, welfare and well-being of children and young people - provides a wide range of information, resources & links.

Quitnow - the National Tobacco Campaign one-stop-shop with all the information you need on quitting smoking.

Raising Children Network - provides a wealth of information for mothers, fathers, grandparents and anyone else who has responsibility for the care of children.

TAFE Studylinks: Children's Services - access a wide range of websites.

 Other information

Additional information for this area may available via the wide variety of social software (link to Wikipedia) & other Internet services where people share their knowledge and connect/collaborate/communicate with others around the world who have similar interests. Some of these services (with main links to Wikipedia articles) are: 

• Wikis where information is published online through the collaborative input of many people - this information is then available for all to access & edit.
    • wikipedia  - an encyclopaedia with versions in a number of languages
    • wikispaces - used by individuals, education & special interest groups   
   
• Blogs (or web logs) are essentially online journals or diaries presented in reverse chronological order. Groups often use them to promote informal discussion on particular topics or issues.
    • blogger - search for relevant blogs with keywords of your choice
   
• RSS - this is a way of having a summary of information (or feeds) 'delivered' to your web browser or aggregator as it becomes available from online newspapers, magazines or special interest websites.
    • bloglines - an excellent way of managing your RSS subscriptions or Feeds
    
• Social bookmarking sites where users post their list of bookmarks (or favourite websites) for others to search and view. There are specialised services for particular interest groups.
    • del.icio.us is perhaps the best known general social bookmaking service
   
• Newsgroups & mailing lists are older types of Internet services (or forums) which are mainly used these days by special interest groups.
    • tile.net allows you to do keyword searches of these services

To find out more about these and the many other online information services available, explore Wikipedia further as well as its related Wikimedia Foundation projects.

 Teaching resources

Curriculum Centres provide information and resources for TAFE NSW educational staff relating to this area on their Intranet website - this is only accessible to staff from within the TAFE NSW computer network.

Last updated: 16 June, 2008

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