lifestart.org.au Lifestart charity helping early childhood intervention and school age services

March, 2010

Lifestart, a registered charity, provides early childhood intervention and school aged services to children with additional needs, including Down syndrome, Autism Spectrum Disorder, global developmental delay and rare genetic disorders. Lifestart provides a family centred approach to meeting the needs of children living with disability and their families.  It is based on the concept of partnership with children, families and carers to assist and empower them to participate meaningfully and inclusively in our community.

Expressions Term 1 - 2010

Expressions Term 1 - 2010Expressions Term 1 2010 newsletter features an update from Lifestart Eastern Sydney about the Parent support program “My Time” and community co-operation. We also feature 9 year old Olivia’s inspiring story.  Olivia has a brother Kye who attended Lifestart Nepean.  In her words,  “I wanted to have a fundraiser for Lifestart because they have helped my brother so much since he started and I wanted to give them something that would help them.” This issue also presents the results from our family survey and welcomes our new CEO Sue Becker. There’s a reminder about Lifestart’s open play times for all our centres, picnic day coming up, members’ discounts and more…

Lifestart Expressions Newsletter Term 1_2010

Lifestart Kayak for Kids races ahead

Entries and donations to Kayak for Kids are coming in steadily and are well ahead of last year’s figures. It’s great to see so many new faces, but it’s also great to see regular paddlers such as the Yeung family and the team from Sydney Ultrasound for Women back again. Dez Blanchfield and his Blast Paddling network have been going great guns promoting the event through the paddling community and the number of single entries is well up … as are the team entries. There’s still time to to set up your fundraising page and register to paddle, so if you haven’t already why not do so and join in the party? Our continued thanks to our Principal Sponsor Trust Company, our Event Partner AROC Sport, our Major Sponsor Baiada Select Poultry and our Event Supporter PaddleNSW, whose contributions ensure that every dollar donated to Kayak for Kids goes directly to providing service to our children with additional needs. For more information visit our Kayak for Kids web site.