The Health Connections for Youth (HCY) program is organising a Young Women’s Festival with support of Government and Non-Government services to celebrate the International Year of Youth (IYY) “Our Year Our Voice.”

The Young Women’s Festival aims to create a space and platform for young women to get together, share their experiences and strategies, energise each other, and celebrate their youth, their diversity and the potential they have to advocate for those unheard voices. It’s about women coming together in celebrating womanhood and expressing opinions and ideas freely.

The festival will be held at the Museum and Art Gallery NT on Wednesday 5th October 2011 from 10am to 4pm.

Please contact us to register your interest or to find out how you can be involved in this exciting event. Click here to see flyer.

t: 89850000
e: anglicare@anglicare-nt.org.au

Inside this issue:

• Community Partners
• Birth & Beyond
• Child Focussed Events
• Training Opportunities
• Working Together
• Events Calendar

.... and more

The Paperbark Project is an Indigenous specific project supporting young people who are expectant parents up to 25 years of age. The project provides pregnancy awareness, youth friendly child birth education and case management support for young pregnant women in Darwin/Palmerston and those coming to birth in Darwin. The Project is based in Darwin and will support the following remote communities: Maningrida, Gunbalanya, Ngukurr and Yuendumu, with Maningrida being the main focus for 2010-2011.

Inside this issue:

• Amunda Gorey - The Artist
• Role of the Reference Group
• Welcome from the Executive Manager
• Events Calendar

.... and more

'Mums with Drums' a performance troupe has just returned to Darwin after well received performances at the Dreaming Festival - June 2009 (a major annual cultural arts event held at Woodford Qld). The young women's performance troupe was formed through Anglicare NT's Pandanus Project to raise awareness of post natal depression.