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Our Voice – Your Community

Published in Blog on 8th May 2020

Communities at Work’s blog will include interviews, tips, advice, questions and answers, resources, essays, expert insights, guest articles and more, with a focus on empowering our community.

Improving Educators’ Well-Being and Happiness – New Research Project

Published in Blog on 29th August 2022 Tags: child care and education, child care and education centre, child care centre Canberra, Professional Development, Wellbeing

A forward-thinking joint research project between Communities at Work and the University of Canberra aims to improve educator well-being and happiness for the sector, and for education in Australia, more broadly.
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The Role of Before and After School Care Programs in Child Development

Published in Blog by Communities at Work on 18th July 2022 Tags: canberra, early learning, children's development, before school care, after school care, primary education

Earlier in June, we sat down for our third episode of the Canberra Community Convos podcast with our Out of School Hours Care (OSHC) Behaviour Support and Service Development Officer, Alister Abercrombie, and Shaniah Norman, the Second-in-Charge (2IC) at a Communities at Work’s OSHC service. Join us for a deep dive into all things OSHC in the podcast episode below:
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Ten Years of Caring and Sharing: Canberra Community Pantry

Published in Blog by Communities at Work on 9th June 2022 Tags: canberra, community pantry, community service, not for profit, charity, food pantry, food support, helping hand, ten year anniversary

In May 2022 the Communities at Work Tuggeranong Community Pantry proudly celebrated ten years of caring for people in the Canberra community and sharing food with those who in need.
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What you need to know for your casual job search

Published in Blog by Communities at Work on 28th April 2022 Tags: out of school hours care, oshc, oshc educators, casual jobs, temporary jobs, shift work, canberra jobs, jobseekers, education jobs, careers, work with us

We unpack in this article three things you need to know for your casual (or student) job search.
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Women in Leadership and Gender Equity

Published in Blog by Communities at Work on 30th March 2022 Tags: International Women's Day, Gender Equality, iwd 2022, womens day, women in leadership, gender equity, workplace gender equity, workplace gender equality, working with women, canberra women

3, 2, 1… We’re LIVE! We were excited to host our first-ever live-streamed discussion panel earlier this month at Communities at Work (on 8 March 2022). And what better topic to kick off with than Women in Leadership, a thought-provoking chat about gender equity on International Women’s Day with five remarkable women from across Communities at Work.
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