Na Marni Meyunna. Welcome everyone. We would like to acknowledge this land on which we live and work as the traditional lands for the Kaurna people and that we respect their spiritual relationship with their country. We also acknowledge the Kaurna people as the custodians of the greater Adelaide Region and their cultural and heritage beliefs are still as important to the living Kaurna people today. Taikurrendi Children and Family Centre has been developed in partnership with DECD and the Federal government through the Indigenous Early Childhood Development National Partnership. It brings together education, health and family services. Our Centre has been open since early 2013. Our Centre, Taikurrendi has a strong committed focus on supporting Aboriginal families with young children to provide the best possible start in life. Taikurrendi [Tie – ka – rendi] comes from the local Aboriginal Kaurna language meaning ‘To be mixed, together’. Taikurrendi Children and Family Centre works together with Christies Beach Primary School to deliver education and support for the community. The Centre is open to all children and families and will provide targeted support when needed. Based in Christies Beach, children and families from surrounding areas access the Centre. Taikurrendi Children and Family Centre page is for people to find out more about the Centre, the services we offer, local information and discussions about important issues impacting children and their families. There is an expectation that users will be respectful of points of view, and refrain from offensive or inappropriate commentary. Taikurrendi’s page is maintained and moderated by staff from the Department of Education and Child Development. This page is monitored Monday-Friday 9-5pm and the page will not be monitored over the weekend or on public holidays. The Community Development Coordinator will regularly review content posted to the page and reserves the right to, at its discretion, block Facebook fans and remove content that in its view breaches Taikurrendi Children and Family Centre Facebook Guidelines. Taikurrendi’s Children and Family Centre policy requires that all people shall receive fair and equal opportunity and that people will not be discriminated against because of race, gender, age, sexuality, parental status, marital status, pregnancy, physical impairment or religious belief or activity. Taikurrendi Children and Family Centre will remove any posts which:
- are likely to be offensive to other readers
- contains unhelpful advice, such as blaming a person for their parenting
- is dogmatic, such as setting out courses of action as “the only way”
- is racist, sexist or discriminatory
- is obscene, or uses graphic sexual language
- is defamatory, or overly critical of services or organisations which provide help to others
- for any other reason is likely to cause harm / distress to other young people reading the story
- are posted for commercial purposes, and
- promote inaccurate, inappropriate or harmful health advice. Taikurrendi Children and Family Centre will remove posts promoting organisations, products, services, events, competitions or information that is not relevant to the post. If you think your organisation, product, service, event or competition may be relevant to the Taikurrendi Children and Family Centre community, please drop us an email at [email protected] with information and we'll be in touch. In certain circumstances, if a post raises concerns about your safety or a child’s, we may try to contact you to check that you and/or others are safe. If there are significant concerns, we may need to pass on your contact information to authorities who can help protect you and/or others, such as a Crisis Care or the police. Our preferred way to do this would be to support you to seek help. We are obliged to try to protect you and/or others if the information you submit tells us that:
you are being seriously hurt by someone else
you are thinking of seriously harming yourself, and
someone else is being, is likely to be, seriously hurt by you or another person
a child is at risk of harm. Please note Taikurrendi Children and Family Centre recognises that sometimes people need immediate help and support. The Taikurrendi Children and Family Centre page cannot provide you with specific counselling, crisis services or support. If you need immediate assistance please call Kids Helpline on 1800 55 1800 or Lifeline on 13 11 14.
