Kingsford Legal Centre - Employment Law Workshop
Kingsford Legal Centre (KLC) will continue its free monthly community workshop series for 2012. Their next workshop will be held on Thursday 12 April from 10:00am - 12:00pm and will be on "Employment Law". This will be an introductory workshop about the employment law, with an emphasis on unfair dismissals.
If there is anything about Employment Law that you'd like included in the session, please let KLC know. The workshop will be presented by KLC's Employment Law Solicitor, Elizabeth Meyer.
The workshop will be held at KLC's temporary offices on Level 3 of the Law Building at the University of NSW.
For a registration form for this event or for more information please contact Dianne Anagnos by email at d.anagnos@unsw.edu.au or phone 9385 9566.
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Young Students and Housing project - Research Help Wanted
Shelter NSW and YFoundations are conducting research into the impact of the housing needs of young people on low incomes not being met where they are from regional areas of New South Wales and are seeking to attend or are attending universities in Sydney.
Specifically, the research wants to identify whether lack of affordable housing hampers these young people's:
. Decision to study at universities in Sydney.
. Choice of courses.
. Capacity to complete their studies.
We would like to speak to/have email and on-line contact with:
. Young people from regional areas for whom a lack of affordable accommodation in Sydney has had any of these impacts.
. People working in housing, student welfare, careers advising in schools or any other work through which they have met young people in this situation.
If you can assist us, please contact Paul van Reyk via pvanreyk@optusnet.com.au.
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Community Drug Forum - 'Ice'
Inner Sydney Regional Council will be hosting a Community Drug Forum on Ice on May 10th at Redfern Townhall from 5pm-7pm.
There has been a resurgence in Ice (Meth Amphetamine) use in the inner city in recent months. Would you like to hear more about the effects of Ice on the user, the effects of Ice on the community, harm minimisation policies and services available to assist in the treatment of Ice addiction? The forum will consist of a panel discussion involving drug and alcohol workers, police and past Ice users.
To register for this event, please contact Char Jones on Char.Jones@innersydneyrcsd.org.au or phone 9698 7461.
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New Neighbourhood Centre in Randwick
The Junction Neighbourhood Centre is opening a new centre at Randwick. It will be called Junction Neighbourhood Centre - Randwick and JNC - Randwick. The Centre has been open for business since Thursday 22nd March 2012.
Address: Shop 9, 155 Avoca Street, Randwick
The entrance is in Albert Street
Phone: 9398 8620
When the centre is closed the phones will be diverted to the Maroubra centre
Hours: Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday
9 am to 4 pm Closed for lunch between 1pm and 1:30 pm.
The Centre is fully accessible including access to a wheelchair accessible toilet. There is a meeting room that holds 10 around a table or up to 18 in a theatre layout. There are also two interview rooms. These facilities are available for use by the community and by services and organisations on an ongoing or an 'as needed' basis. The facilities in the meeting room will include a whiteboard and a data projector and the two interview rooms will have computers with internet access. The meeting room will also be available for use by local support and interest groups.
If you would like to know more about using these facilities please contact Anna Hartree on 9349 8200 or info@jnc.org.au.
The Centre will provide a wide range of information and referral services plus a number of outreach services such as Australian Hearing and Tax Help. The Kingsford/Randwick Community Capacity Building project will also be located at this Centre.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------Mix and Mingle Community Agency Expo
The Mix and Mingle expo is a great information sharing opportunity for NGO community services based in the Eastern Suburbs. So please come along and chat with your peers, share your ideas and challenges (and solutions!) and enjoy morning tea and an opportunity to hand out information.
The next Mix and Mingle Expo is on: 9.30am - 11am Wednesday 9th May
Meeting Room 2, Mill Hill Centre, 31-33 Spring Street, Bondi Junction
To RSVP (deadline April 24th) or for more information please contact Sin Mariani on 9387 2885 or email manager@echocentre.com.au
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Working with Communities Seminar.
This free Working with Communities Seminar will provide a valuable opportunity for social work and social policy practitioners, activists and educators to share experiences from their working lives and exchange ideas about ways to work effectively to achieve long-term social change in the current challenging social, political and funding environment.
The seminar is being hosted by the University of Sydney's Social Policy Research Network and will be facilitated Dr Margot Rawsthorne, Senior lecturer in community development, University of Sydney and Dr Amanda Howard, Lecturer, School of Humanities and Social Science, University of Newcastle. The seminar will be held from 2:00 - 4:00pm on Friday 27th April at Room 426, Old Teachers College, University of Sydney.
The event is free but bookings are essential. RSVP Dr Margot Rawsthorne on 9036 9313 or email
margot.rawsthorne@sydney.edu.au.
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Leichhardt Interagency - Income Management
The Leichhardt Interagency have invited Mile Musovski from Dept of Human Services to discuss Income Management. All interested agencies are welcome to attend, even if not based in Leichhardt.
The interagency meeting is on Tuesday 10th April at 10am at Leichhardt Centrelink, 23 Balmain Rd, Leichhardt. For more information, call Char Jones on 9698 4761 or email char.jones@innersydneyrcsd.org.au
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Hanji (Traditional Korean Paper) Craft Classs
The Korean Cultural Office is hosting an opportunity to participate in the Hanji Gongye (Traditional Korean Paper Craft Making) craft class. This is an exciting chance to learn some of the beautiful techniques involved in the art, not to mention experience crafting using the resilient yet flexible traditional Korean paper.
The class is open to everyone who is craving to learn about Korean culture in a fun way. Regardless of whether you're a beginner or a crafts enthusiast, have an original and refreshing experience today! Seeing your object slowly takes life and to finally take it home is an enjoyable experience not to be missed.
Classes will be held at the Korean Cultural Office, 255 Elizabeth Street, Sydney and run from April 10 - May 29, 2012 (8 weeks) Every Tuesday 5pm-7pm. The cost is $20 members/$40 non-members.
For more information visit http://www.koreanculture.org.au/culture-classes or phone 02 8267-3400
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