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‘To make a difference is to be important in the life of a child.’
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New position application documents (uploaded 9 July, 2010)
Welcome! Here you can view and down load the application documents for our currently advertised position: Contracts Manager (full-time)
We have now passed 3000! (June 2010)
Our Baby Essentials education has had 3000 participants in its first seven months. More than 1000 of these took part in the intensive 2 hour version facilitated by a trained peer and 2000 have been to the 15 minute online version. We are delighted by the interest and commitment of people to protecting babies' lives and encourage all readers to go there if you have not already been through Baby Essentials, or encourage others to if you yourself have.
Help from TV (Mar 2010)
On Tuesday 23 March, the Safe Sleep programme got some help from TV3. The channel ran a piece on their Sunrise breakfast show, interviewing Stephanie Cowan about the warning on baby slings recently issued by US officials following the deaths of 14 babies in slings.
Exposure such as this is like gold to a 1.5 FTE service that is run on a shoe string budget. Achieving the kind of change we are chasing requires extensive reach across the many social systems that divide people. The interview was an opportunity to explain a baby's vulnerability when placed in unsafe positions and emphasise the principles of safe sleep for babies. The video clip is available here.
Baby Essentials Online has passed 1000! (Mar 2010)
Our goal was 1000 people to the online education in its first 4 months and this happened on Friday 26 March 2010. We trust the information is as supportive for most as this comment from a recent user suggests :
"I have just completed the Baby Essentials Online programme and am in awe of the way you pitch things. I particularly liked the slide that addressed the differences in opinion in bed sharing, how the messages came from the babies themselves and the focus on using influence."
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