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Sharing can make the difference Stacey Brown

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- I'm a proud Yorta Yorta

Dja Dja Wurrung descendant.

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I've been working at

Yappera now for 25 years.

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So quite a long time.

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I think that child information sharing

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will definitely impact

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and benefit children within out service.

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Yappera is a multi functional

Aboriginal children service.

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Our strengths come because we are

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Aboriginal community controlled.

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We're governed by Aboriginal

members of the community

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right from the board of management

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down to the management within the service.

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I've seen a lot of children come in

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and there's particular families that will

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always stand out in my memory

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and when I reflect on what we've done

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I really think about

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what could have happened

for particular children

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and I've seen particular cases

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where children have come into Yappera

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and they've slipped through the system,

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because we've not been able to

effectively share information

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or we as educators haven't

been given the tools

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to effectively work with those children.

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So we've worked in isolation of each other

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rather than working together collectively

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to support that child.

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I strongly believe that,

that investment for services

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to be able to collaborate

have the resources they need,

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create set savings in the long term

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and allows strong

confident resilient adults.

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