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Numbering up: CCSS helps students with financial literacy
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| CCSS Senior Manager Ann O’Brien with Wenty Leagues Club President Ian McCann. |
Centacare Catholic Social Services (CCSS) is helping local high schools students learn how to budget and manage their money, thanks to the support of community clubs in Western Sydney.
CCSS’s financial literacy workshops – ‘Not Enough Month and the End of the Money’ – are being offered to Year 11 and 12 students in selected schools in the Holroyd Local Government Area (LGA) following its successful application for a $8,460 Community Development Support Expenditure grant from Wenty Leagues Club, the Hills LGA after a $4,320 grant was received from Castle Hill RSL Club and the Penrith LGA thanks to $8,460 from St Marys RSL.
“The ‘Not Enough Month at the End of the Money’ workshops include simple but effective ways for students to learn more about credit cards and debt, mobile phone costs, the hidden costs of following fashion and the latest trends, the traps of gambling, the real costs of owning a motor vehicle and other related topics,” CCSS Senior Manager Ann O’Brien said.
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Indigenous conference stepping stone to stronger future
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| ACSS Team Members. |
The Aboriginal Catholic Social Services (ACCS) Team has returned from last week’s 9th World Indigenous Women & Wellness Conference in Darwin with a renewed spirit of kinship to put into practice in its work with the Indigenous community of Western Sydney.Themed ‘For The Generations To Come’, the 22-to-25 August conference brought together Indigenous representatives from across the globe to share their wisdom and stories while exploring ways to motivate healthful and positive life changes, engage with contemporary issues, support strong female leadership and build Indigenous relationships internationally.
ACCS (a part of Centacare Catholic Social Services – Diocese of Parramatta) won a seat at the table at the conference via a heartfelt submission from team member Jenny Ebsworth. Jenny said the most important lesson from the conference was that true leadership is shown through example.
“In our culture and others around the world, we see a history of Indigenous people - both men and women - being disempowered,” Jenny said. “Through that loss of power comes a loss of respect. As well as providing support and guidance, I think the most important thing we can do at ACSS is to live and lead by example: showing others that the way forward is through showing respect for one another.”
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30/08/2010
The Aboriginal Catholic Social Services Team has returned from the 9th World Indigenous Women & Wellness Conference with a renewed spirit of kinship to put into practice in its work with the Indigenous community of Western Sydney
23/08/2010
Centacare Catholic Social Services (CCSS) is helping local high schools students learn how to budget and manage their money, thanks to the support of community clubs in Western Sydney.
20/08/2010
A submission from the heart from Aboriginal Catholic Social Services (ACSS) Team Member Jenny Ebsworth has given ACSS a seat at the table at the 9th World Indigenous Women & Wellness Conference in Darwin next week.
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