Events

Upcoming Events

Past Events

Hearing Awareness Week - from 22 August 2010

During Hearing Awareness Week, The Shepherd Centre hosted an Open Day at each of our five centres. Open Days are a great chance for the community to come and meet the families and staff and to take a tour of the centre. Those who attended had the opportunity to observe live Auditory-Verbal Therapy sessions and learn more about the System 5 Cochlear Implant. The Open Days were a great success, THANK YOU to everyone who attended.

 

CITY2SURF 2010

On Sunday 8th August, Team Shepherd Centre participated in the Sun-Herald City2Surf fun run. Over $7,000 was raised by the team members and their friends and families and by other supporters of The Shepherd Centre. Special thanks to our families who raised money for The Shepherd Centre, including Felix’s grandfather from Wollongong, Kaitlyn’s mother from Sydney and past student Emily’s father from Roseville. Your support is very much appreciated. 

 

The Shepherd Centre Australian Father of the Year Award

Congratulations to Guy Cooper, Australian Father of the Year 2010 and Robert Schneider, NSW Community Father of the Year 2010. Both winners were presented with their award at the Opera House on Friday 27 August 2010 in recognition of their ongoing commitment to their families and the wider community.

  

 

Hear for You Mentoring Group conduct their final workshop at The Shepherd Centre...

 

 

Over the past five months Hear For You, who provide a mentoring program for hearing impaired adolescents, has conducted 3 workshops, commencing with a meet and greet in February 2010. They finished with their final workshop and graduation at The Shepherd Centre on 6th June, 2010.

Hear for You aim to mentor young deaf people and to help them integrate more effectively into the hearing world. The workshops bring together teenagers with varying levels of hearing loss to help them realise that deafness is more a “difference” than a disadvantage and aim to improve their confidence and help them to develop better social, communication and leadership skills.

 

The final workshop consisted of parent sessions, a skit performed by the students and two guest speakers who spoke about their experiences of being married to a deaf person and bringing up a hearing impaired teenager. The day finished with an end of program ceremony highlighting the achievements of the students. The day was a real success, with a total of 60 people attending, including the students' parents who arrived in time for the parent sessions and Graduation Ceremony.

 

Although one-to-one mentoring has ended, the students will continue to receive support via on-line mentoring untill the end of the year.

 

If you would like any further information about Hear For You, please visit www.hearforyou.com.au