Program wins award

A YOORALLA program run in Narre Warren and Endeavour Hills has won a prestigious government award last week for its contribution towards improving the health, learning, development and wellbeing of young children and their families.
The award recognises Yooralla’s ‘What About the Dads!’ playgroups – an innovative program that provides supported playgroups for fathers and siblings of children with a disability.
Yooralla staff received the award from the Minister for Children and Early Childhood Development Maxine Morand in a ceremony at Federation Square last week.
Run outside normal school hours, the playgroups help fathers to gain skills, confidence and understanding about being a parent of a young child with a disability.
The award is sponsored by Best Start, a Department of Human Services prevention and early intervention project that aims to improve the health, development, learning and wellbeing of all Victorian children from pregnancy through to transition to primary school.