{"id":2391,"date":"2024-10-02T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-10-01T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dev.build.optimodesign.com.au\/modeina\/community-fund-spotlight-caroline-chisholm-society-caroline-springs\/"},"modified":"2025-02-25T16:14:35","modified_gmt":"2025-02-25T05:14:35","slug":"community-fund-spotlight-caroline-chisholm-society-caroline-springs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/dev.build.optimodesign.com.au\/modeina\/community-fund-spotlight-caroline-chisholm-society-caroline-springs\/","title":{"rendered":"Community Fund Spotlight: Caroline Chisholm Society, Caroline Springs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Caroline Chisholm Society, Pregnancy and Family Support Service<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>In an area with so many young families, experienced local support services can make an outsized difference to those they serve.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>The Caroline Chisholm Society puts an emphasis on building adult capacity over their 50-plus years of working with mothers and babies from offices in Caroline Springs, Essendon and Shepparton.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>They were also a successful 2024 Modeina Community grant recipient this year.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Dinushka O&#8217;Neill is the Community Engagement Officer and lives in the local area. She said the funds will be used to hire a bus that will transport families to services.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe had music therapy sessions run in from June to September and a lot of families couldn&#8217;t attend because they didn&#8217;t have way of getting there,\u201d Dinushka said.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>In December they run a Santa shop and invite all involved families to come in and pick gifts for their children.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe want to be able to give those families the freedom to access the Santa Shop as well other services we offer.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Services in and around Caroline Springs currently focus on parents of children aged between zero and five.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have over 722 families impacting 1169 children who are supported through our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.caroline.org.au\/our-services\/every-child-program\/\">Every Child Program<\/a>, just one of the services currently offered,\u201d Dinushka said.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>To learn more or contribute to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.caroline.org.au\">Caroline Chisholm Society services, visit their website.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Caroline Chisholm Society, Pregnancy and Family Support Service In an area with so many young families, experienced local support services&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2346,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-events-local-area"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/dev.build.optimodesign.com.au\/modeina\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2391"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/dev.build.optimodesign.com.au\/modeina\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/dev.build.optimodesign.com.au\/modeina\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dev.build.optimodesign.com.au\/modeina\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dev.build.optimodesign.com.au\/modeina\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2391"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/dev.build.optimodesign.com.au\/modeina\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2391\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2413,"href":"http:\/\/dev.build.optimodesign.com.au\/modeina\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2391\/revisions\/2413"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dev.build.optimodesign.com.au\/modeina\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2346"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/dev.build.optimodesign.com.au\/modeina\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dev.build.optimodesign.com.au\/modeina\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dev.build.optimodesign.com.au\/modeina\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}