Welcome to Kingsgrove
Community Aid Centre Incorporated
In the Community • For the Community • With the Community
We are community
based, locally managed community organization committed to identifying and
responding to a range needs in the local community with special consideration
for the socially, economically and linguistically disadvantaged. As a not for profit
organization funded by a range of government agencies we hold no affiliations
with either political parties or religious organizations and we provide our service
in a non-discriminative manner.
Kingsgrove Community
Aid Centre provides a variety of services ranging from Child Care programmes, Family
programmes, Aged Care and Allied Health Care programmes and programmes for
people with a disability.
The Kingsgrove Community Aid Centre Inc. is an Approved NDIS Provider
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to Help You
KCAC provides support and programmes to those most
disadvantaged, to vulnerable families and to the elderly. Some programmes are
not funded, and the organization is contantly searching avenues of support from
the community. Kingsgrove Community Aid Centre is a registered charity and all
donations over the value of $2.00 are tax deductible.
“Building a sustainable society that is welcoming,
harmonious & inclusive. A place where people are healthy & feel happy
& safe”
Kingsgrove Community Aid Centre Inc, is supported by Georges
River Council and the State & Federal Government.
Why Choose KCAC?
Our Blog
On Tuesday 23 May, the Italian social support group, celebrated their birthday’s for the months of January to June, at Enzo’s Cucina in Penshurst. Hope you all had a great time celebrating. 🎂🎉🎈
Such a lovely day celebrating with friends 🌹🌹🌹
Beautiful day
The Able and loving it disability participants created some tie dye art on Wednesday. These turned out amazing! Well done to all. 🌈
The Able & loving it disability group enjoyed a movie and popcorn day with yummy hot dogs for lunch. It was also a birthday celebration for Katie and Sam who both had birthdays this month. The participants watched Zootopia and found it very entertaining. 🎂🎉🍿🎥🌭🥤 😀
What awesome pics guys 😍
☀️ POPPY Playgroup (Parent’s Opportunity to Participate in Play with their Young) is a supported playgroup for mothers with mental health difficulties and their children from 0 to 5 years. Being the mother of a baby or a pre-school child can be a wonderful experience, but many mothers also find that they have to cope with feelings of depression, anxiety or distress.
☀️POPPY is a space where mothers can relax, meet other mums, share experiences and have fun with their children in a safe environment.
☀️The playgroup was established in May 2011 through the initiatives of the Kingsgrove Community Aid Centre. It has been running at KCAC every Monday during the school term between 10am-12pm. Mothers can be referred to the playgroup by their health professional or contact Kingsgrove Community Centre on 9150 7823 to self-refer.
☀️The Playgroup supports parents to play with their children, giving particular attention to children’s development and play interests and also offers information sessions featuring guest speakers to support the mothers with their mental health challenges. The sessions include information on child development and related behaviour issues, stress management, nutrition information, speech therapy, early literacy, child safety, mental health issues, toilet training, family budgeting, quit smoking, meditation and informal discussions on a variety of subjects initiated by the parents.
☀️POPPY Playgroup is partially funded by the Department of Communities & Justice.
☀️Many of the participants comment on how supportive other mothers are and start forming social networks outside of the group with one another. People like that they can be open and honest at the group and that there is always a facilitator they can talk to.
👏 Testimonials:
"I’ve been loving coming to this group, it encouraged me to get out of the house a bit more and focus on myself and my child" – Mother 1
"Thank you for all your support, without this playgroup I don’t know what I’d be doing" -Mother 2
“In coming to this playgroup, I’ve met many people going through similar things and it helps you realise that you’re not alone. Even just to talk about things that parents who don’t have mental illness won’t necessarily understand. Even ways that I wouldn’t have anticipated like, my daughter’s pretty shy and even though she goes to day care she finds playgroup less confronting as it’s a smaller group. Just coming here over the years has increased her confidence in dealing with groups of people. She has made good friends here and the mums also get together outside of POPPY time, so I’ve made some really good friends through this group. I would highly recommend people joining this playgroup.” – Mother 3
🌈 Have a look what POPPY has planned for next month.
It was wonderful to attend the naming event of the Marrickville library auditorium in honour of my late colleague Chrys Meader . I had the privilege to have worked with Chrys in the 80s and 90s where we worked to better the lives of those in our local community.
Chrys dedicated her life preserving the local history of Marrickville and the suburbs surrounding the Inner west as the Librarian at Marrickville Library . She co-authored the book “ Marrickville People and Places”1994 . It was also wonderful meeting Cheryl Pattison Chrys,s younger sister as well as dear friends and fellow students of St Brigid’s Marrickville .
A wonderful reunion with our Prime Minister the Hon Anthony Albanese and Emeritus Mayor Barry cotter was also nostalgic as we all worked together in Marrickville.
Marrickville launched my career as a young aspiring social worker running the community centre “May Murray” for over 20 years . They were interesting and life challenging years .
Contact Us
Head Office
| Address: | 30 Morgan St., Kingsgrove 2208 |
| Telephone: | 02 9150 7823 |
| Email: | admin@kcac.org.au |
| Website: | www.kcac.org.au |
Hurstville Oosh
| Address: | Hurstville Public School Forrest Rd., Hurtsville |
| Telephone: | 0418 481 358 |
| Email: | hoosh@kcac.org.au |
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ABN: 77 897 124 722 | Donations over $2 are tax deductible.
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