Providing Community Support and Social Inclusion for Disabled Children and Young People
Issue 18 - January 2009
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It's Party Time!Join us at our Half Term Party on THURSDAY, 19th FEBRUARY 11-3pm at TRINITY CENTRE, Beechwood Road, E8 3DY. |
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Melanie and Turenne are qualified massage therapists doing a post graduation course in Craniosacral Therapy. They need your help. What they need from you is an hour and a half of your time to receive some therapy. They will be at the HFBU building once a week (days may change due to availability). If you are interested, please contact them on 07947 473150 (please leave a message if you get the machine) with the reference Hackney Family Backup and they will book you in. (The therapy is free of charge but donations welcomed). |
Disability Backup The Disability Forum continues to grow, the next meeting is on Thursday 5th February and will be addressing Transport issues in Hackney (e.g. blue badges etc) Contact Catherine for more information. Recent events: We enjoyed a trip to Discover activity centre in December last year and this year many of you joined us at Hackney Empire to see the pantomime! Great fun was had by all! |
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Hackney Families Together This month we are having a special session looking at 'A break for you and fun for your kids'. We will be talking about short breaks in Hackney and what you would like. The meeting is on: Thursday 29th January 2009, 9.30 - 2.00 We have moved venue for this meeting to: City Edge (Morley Hall) 125-127 Mare Street E8 3RH. There will be lunch provided at this meeting and a prize draw! We are enclosing a copy of a questionnaire with the print version of this newsletter, asking for your views about Short Breaks. It is important that as many people as possible reply to this, whether or not you currently get a break. It is important that you say what you like as well as what you'd like to see improved. All existing short break services will be reviewed as part of this process so make sure you have your say! Send the form back to the FREEPOST address on the form - not to HFBU. | |
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Forthcoming Training for Carers, Volunteers & Home
Child carers: You must telephone to book your places ASAP! All training courses held at HFBU Managing Challenging Behaviour*: Sunday 22nd February, 9.30am-4.30pm Manual Handling: Saturday 28th February 9.45am-3pm AND/OR Sunday 22nd March 9.45am-3pm Child Protection: Saturday 14th March, 9.30-4.30pm *Managing Challenging Behaviour with Studio 3 (held at HFBU) |
Hackney Family Together is keen to increase participation by all Hackney's communities and so has appointed a new part-time worker. The work will involve making contact with key people in community organisations and faith groups and exploring with them the barriers their communities face in having a voice and accessing services. Contact Deborah at HFBU for more details. |
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There have been many changes to the staff team at Hackney Family Backup, here's an update: 
New Team members:Vesna Glavas has joined us as our new Toy Library Worker, welcome! Christian Muehl is our new Finance Worker, welcome! Existing Team members: Elizabeth Narasimha is now our Interim Family Support Manager Sebastian Eisenberg is now working with Catherine on Disability Backup All of the other staff, Sheila, Martina, Tess, Gillian, Catherine and Deborah are still here and still doing the same roles. | |
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