Curtin University staff have volunteered their time to give back to the Perth community at the Parkerville Children and Youth Care facility.<\/p>\n
A group of 13 staff from the Curtin Student Transition and Retention Team (START) have spent today painting a mural in its heritage-listed youth centre based in Parkerville and interacting with the children who use its services.<\/p>\n
START received the Vice-Chancellor\u2019s Award for Excellence and Innovation in November 2011, and have used some of their award money to purchase two iPads to donate to the Centre.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Amy Cleasby, Curtin Student Advisor Team Leader said the iPads would support the literacy and numeracy program at the Centre.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe iPads will support the literacy and numeracy development of some of the educationally disadvantaged kids,\u201d Ms Cleasby said.<\/p>\n
Ms Cleasby said START chose Parkerville because they wanted to become involved in a meaningful way with a charity who worked to provide care and protection, and better educational outcomes for children.<\/p>\n
She said Parkerville\u2019s program echoed START\u2019s focus on helping students to succeed in learning within a university environment.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe wanted to do something more hands on rather than just give money to a charity organisation,\u201d she said.
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\nSTART implements programs and initiatives to help students transition to university and successfully complete their studies.<\/p>\n
Established in 2006, START helps about 7,000 new students via the orientation and mentor programs every year.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Contact:<\/p>\n
Bonnie Ripper, Public Relations, Curtin University Curtin University staff have volunteered their time to give back to the Perth community at the Parkerville Children and Youth Care facility.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4275,"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_oasis_is_in_workflow":0,"_oasis_original":0,"_oasis_task_priority":"","_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_research-areas":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"research-areas":[],"class_list":["post-17947","media-release","type-media-release","status-publish","hentry","category-campus-and-global-community"],"acf":{"post_options":{"":null,"additional_content":{"title":"","content":"","image":false},"related_courses":false,"credits":{"author":null,"photographer":null,"media":false},"display_author":true,"banner":{"image":false}}},"featured_image":false,"author_meta":{"first_name":"Curtin","last_name":"University","display_name":"Curtin University"},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media-release\/17947","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media-release"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/media-release"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4275"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media-release\/17947\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17947"},{"taxonomy":"research-areas","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/research-areas?post=17947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nTel: 08 9266 4364, Mobile: 0401 103 373, Email: b.ripper@curtin.edu.au<\/a>
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