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Intensive Support Playgroups
 Playgroup Victoria delivers the Intensive Support Playgroups program in the City of Dandenong in partnership with the City of Greater Dandenong with funding from the Australian Government.
Families are referred to Intensive Support Playgroups, known as PlaySpot, by local service providers including community health, maternal and child health, refugee and women’s housing services.
About PlaySpot
PlaySpot is a mobile, playgroup- activity-filled van staffed by a playgroup coordinator, family support and peer support staff which provides playgroup at five locations (one of which is Dandenong Plaza shopping centre) in the City of Dandenong during school term.
PlaySpot Dandenong Plaza playgroup
PlaySpot Dandenong Plaza playgroup happens on the ground level of the shopping centre just outside Target every Wednesday during school term from 10-11.30am. It is within easy reach of the carpark, post office and Medicare.
The aim is to promote playgroup to people who might not know about it. At the playgroup session children are given lots of open ended activities to choose from and play with in the first hour, everyone than helps pack up, and group time follows with songs and music to bring it to a close.
It's lots of fun with plenty of things for children to play with that can be copied at home and an easy way to pick up brochures about local child care, kindergartens, maternal and child health services and family day care.
In the last six months of 2010, 153 families attended the playgroup. Of those, 65 came three or more times and 88 came once or twice.
Target groups
Intensive Support Playgroups (PlaySpot playgroups) are funded to target:
- Newly arrived refugees
- Vulnerable and isolated families
- Families experiencing financial disadvantage
- CALD and Indigenous families
- Families who are homeless or in transient housing
- People experiencing
- chronic child protection issues
- disability
- mental health issues
For more information
Contact Paula on 9791 7313 or email paula@playgroup.org.au to find PlaySpot locations, make a referral or find out more.
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