Disability Services, Disability Support, Volunteering, Children's Disability Services, Community Service

Exchange of Ideas

by Sandra Leehy, Publicity IOE
10th March 2010

We were delighted to be able to host an evening get together with Umberto and Bruna, who were accompanying their son on the ATLHA Onlus Melbourne – Milan (Melmi) exchange project, and some parents from our own Interchange program.

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Clean Up Day

Sandra Leehy
4th March 2010

A willing band of IOE staff and Balance participants met at the Liverpool Road Retarding Basin on Business Clean Up Day, Tuesday 2^nd March, keen to help ‘Clean Up Australia’.

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Join Us to Clean Up Australia

by Sandra Leehy
24th Feruary 2010

It’s Business Clean Up Australia Day on Tuesday 2^nd March and Interchange staff and Balance participants will be donning gloves, grabbing bags and wheelbarrows and doing our bit to clean up part of our local area.

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Communication Program Success

by Belinda James, Manager Interchange Outer East
18th February 2010

It is always good to share success.

Interchange Outer East recently received funding to develop and create communication aids for participants who are subject to restrictive interventions and who use our recreational programs.

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Hosting Has Many Rewards

By Kerry Hands - Host Coordinator
February 9th 2010

From personal experience I can tell you the rewards are many. Over the last 16 years I have regularly hosted 4 young people and have ongoing friendships with their families and their extended networks of family and friends, as they have with mine.

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First Volunteering Experience

By Ellen Youlden - Volunteer
February 16th 2010

The camp at Coonawarra during the January 2010 school holiday program was my first experience as a volunteer with Interchange Outer East.

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