 Child Friendly Community Action Networks (CANs) are groups of people: service providers and local community members who are pooling their talents and resources to create local child friendly initiatives aimed at protecting and nurturing children and their families.
CAN's identify local needs, and then develop achievable and sustainable initiatives to respond to these needs.
Each local community action network is supporting NAPCAN's vision for a child friendly Australia, are excellent examples of primary prevention of child abuse and neglect.
A NAPCAN supported initiative in the Oenpelli community of Arnhem Land has yielded incredible results and won the community a prestigious award MORE
This remarkable group of people held it's first public event in June 2006. From this meeting has developed a community committed to making Toowoomba a child friendly city MORE
The Whitsunday Child Friendly Community Action Network in Queensland grew from humble beginnings. Inspired by the Child Friendly Challenges in National Child Protection Week in 2005 members of the community decided they wanted to keep preventing child abuse on their agenda all year round. In May 2006 they released a new Child Protection in the Whitsunday Brochure, sponsored by the Whitsunday Building Safer Communities Action Team (initiative of Department of Communities) MORE
In 1999 Windale was ranked in the worst 1 per cent of NSW postcodes for child abuse and neglect. By 2003 it was ranked among the best 25 per cent. Since then, the Windale Community Interagency Alliance has worked to keep the child friendly initiatives moving. In February 2007 the Windale Child Friendly Community Action Network was formed MORE
The Australian Government's Stonger Families and Communities Stategy: the Communities for Children initiative, aims to assist children aged 0-5 years to have the best possible start in life and to influence the contexts within which they live - their family and community, and the broader social, economic and cultural environments. MORE
NAPCAN's Child Friendly Community Action Kit HERE will assist you form a Community Action Network and plan child friendly initiatives that are right for your community.
Check out our other resources to assist you in the Toolbox HERE
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