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Kids Inspire is an Essex-based children’s mental health charity supporting children, young people and their families who are experiencing anxiety, depression, trauma, self-harm, and other worries. Our young people’s mental health has significantly suffered through the pandemic, and it continues to be the case. Creative therapy gives a young person a weekly space to talk to one of their highly qualified team members. They are taught a range of skills to enable them to cope with and be resilient to life’s daily challenges and enable them to go on to lead happy, fulfilled lives in adulthood. Alongside, family support or therapy is essential to the long-term outcome for a young person. It’s a journey of discovery and understanding for everyone that surrounds a child and the charity offers specialist training for people who want to upskill and to do what they can to be there for a child experiencing trauma or mental health issues.

Kids Konnected was developed on the premise that when a parent gets cancer, the entire family is affected and the needs of the children must be addressed. Our programs started in California and soon spread nationwide. The mission of Kids Konnected is to provide friendship, understanding, education and support for kids and teens who have a parent with cancer or have lost a parent to cancer.

KIDS KORNER offers long daycare for children from 6 weeks to preschool age and many of our centres also provide well structured Before and After School Care and Holiday Programs for school age children. KIDS KORNER centres are carefully designed to feel like a childs home away from home with each room meeting the unique requirements of its age group and boasting the very best learning and play resources. KIDS KORNER is now offering franchise opportunities. Benefits of becoming a childcare franchisee include access to: - An established, growing and trusted Australian brand - Rigorous systems and procedures, ranging from staffing, development, training & marketing - Our unique custom developed local area marketing toolkit WHAT ARE WE LOOKING FOR IN A FRANCHISEE? Franchisees do not necessarily have to have a childcare background they will simply need to achieve their Certificate 3 in Childcare within 12 months of opening the business. As well as a love of kids we are looking for potential franchisees with strong people management, business acumen and communications skills, who are willing to be hands-on in running their business ensuring an efficient and profitable operation. If you love the KIDS KORNER brand and philosophy as much as we do, wed love to hear from you! Please complete the expression of interest form on our website at www.kidskorner.com.au/franchising and well be in touch shortly.

Kids Like Us was established in 2013 after three children with a strong social conscience identified that there was a need to provide support to other twice-exceptional (2e) students in Australia. Kids Like US provide the safe and secure environment where 2e kids are able to identify their specific skills and pathways to advocate for their own learning, enabling them to understand how they learn to achieve their own potential. Twice-exceptional individuals are those who display heightened strengths in one or more areas of human ability that is combined with a disability which may negate, hide or accentuate their strength. The strength or disability can be found in all types of people everywhere, but the amount of each component will influence society’s acceptance or rejection of the expression of twice-exceptionality. Kids Like Us understand that 2e young people are often misunderstood and unable to communicate their specific learning needs and requirements, which often leads to a misunderstanding of their ability to achieve in mainstream school environments. We take a holistic approach incorporating multiple support services including educational, physiological and counselling under one banner with each individual receiving a tailored combination that best suits their needs. We are the only organisation in the country providing these kinds of specialised support services. • In Australia there are over 100,000 undiagnosed 2e young people, 30,000 of those in Victoria most of whom are not supported. • The 2e profile makes up approximately 7-9% of the population. Kids Like Us Australia is the only organisation in Australia to offer a comprehensive support structure and a sense of belonging for 2e students through the provision of learning and emotional support, advocacy and peer-to-peer support. Currently KLU sees 160 individuals a fortnight through one on one support contact, with an extensive waiting list.

Since 2001, Kids Matter Inc. has opened doors of promise and opportunity for foster and kinship care children and their caregivers. We do this by putting the needs of children first. Kids Matter Inc. helps children in foster and kinship care thrive. Our Fostering Healing team - therapists, legal advocates, social workers, and resource specialists - supports abused and neglected children including foster and kinship care families. This program provides a variety of services including in-home trauma focused therapy for children, legal advocacy and representation, crisis and short-term counseling, and caregiver support. Our Court Appointed Special Advocate (CASA) volunteers advocate for children who have been abused or neglected and help assure each child a safe, permanent, nurturing home. We recruit, train and supervise community members to respond to serious cases of child abuse and neglect.

Kids Matters are Brisbanes leaders in Childrens Occupational Therapy. Our team of Paediatric OTs are based in Yeerongpilly, Aspley and Greenslopes. The Kids Matters mission is to help children maximise their potential with a wide range of specialist Occupational Therapy treatments focused on assisting their development. Childrens Occupational Therapy is about making sure that kids can do the occupations that are important to them. Our Brisbane based, Occupational Therapy for kids helps with everyday life activities such as making friends, exploring and trying new things, playing, being brave, being calm when things are hard, reading, writing, spelling, doing what theyre asked and motor skills. We help parents to understand their children, cope better and know how to help them overcome their challenges.

Kids Must Read offers a customised list of recommended books to suit each individual child and resources such as tactics to get children reading books.