Phone 4342 2070 Fax 4342 2071 Email us

2002 (c) Peninsula Community Access Newspaper Inc

 

Club funds Centacare training

 

Ettalong Beach Memorial Club has funded the training of staff at Centacare, Gosford.

The club has donated $11,000 which has been used to train six facilitators at the Australian Institute of Counselling In Addictions in Bowral and to assist in the purchase of life management manuals.

The five-day training program was undertaken by three Gosford-Wyong Centrecare staff, two community-based workers from Woy Woy and Toukley parishes and the other from Central Coast Problem Gambling Services.

"Life Management is a program for those who are looking to get their lives back on track," said Ms Diane Lee, manager of Community Development & Education at Centrecare, Central Coast.

"The club's support and funding of the program, along with the efforts and initiative of accredited facilitator, Mary Butler, has made it accessible to participants across the Coast."

"The funding also means that manuals only cost community participants $30, making the program affordable to those who need it most."

"The more we can assist those in our community who may be struggling with the weight of personal problems, the stronger our community will become, " said Mr Peter Hale, general manager of Ettalong Beach Club.

Club Newsletter, June-July