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3 Ways to Build Your Teenager’s Resilience

4 Tips for Raising Mindful Padawans: Parenting Lessons from Star Wars

5 key benefits of Supported Independent Living

5 myths about foster care you probably didn’t know

5 parenting lessons we learnt from watching Bluey

5 steps to becoming an approved foster carer

5 tips for managing pandemic fatigue

5 ways to develop healthy romantic relationships

A 10-year wedding anniversary with a twist

A Cuppa for a Cause: The Biggest Morning Tea

A Day In the Life of A Kinship Carer: Alison’s Story

A day in the life of an occupational therapist

A Decade of Volunteering

A helping hand for a traumatised child

A home for life: more than one way to make a family

A job with purpose.

A leap of faith: becoming a foster carer

A place to call home

A safe haven: grandparents step into the breach

A sense of fulfilment money can’t buy for carers

A Stress-Free Christmas: Tips for a Joyful Holiday Season

A Trauma Informed approach to the holidays

ADHD Awareness Month: Shedding Light on Neurodiversity

Ashley’s experience of moving into Supported Independent Living (SIL)

Ask a psychologist: When children lie

Ask a therapist: Is your child showing aggression?

Back to school wellbeing

Bayden’s riding a wave of success

Becoming a foster carer: How It Works with your Carer Compliance Officer

Bringing the CARE Framework to Life: Applying the Trauma-Informed Principle

Building relationships at Christmas: the opportunity and the challenge

Celebrate Disability Pride

Celebrating Foster Carers: Kate shares her story

Celebrating National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Children’s Day in Maitland

Challenge Art Competition Winners Announced

Challenge Community Services COVID-19 vaccine roll-out update

Challenge Community Services response to the novel Coronavirus (COVID-19)

Challenge Community Services response to the novel Coronavirus (COVID-19)

Challenge Community Services update on Coronavirus (COVID-19)

Challenge Community Services updated response to COVID-19

Challenge Disability Services Coronavirus (COVID-19) FAQ

Challenge host Trangie all abilities league tag carnival

Challenge open new Illawarra Hub

Challenge’s Backtrack program gets green light from Council

Changing lives for the better through Recycling

Coming Soon: Purpose-built SDA in Quirindi!

Connexions Cafe: Tamworth cafe run by exceptional people with disability

COVID-19 Update – Returning to Day Programs

Daniel takes control with the NDIS

Disability Leadership Team Immersion Recap: Empowering Our Future

Dive into the 2025 Gunnedah Swimming Carnival!

Do more of what you love: Kristy’s story

Do you have what it takes to be a foster carer?

Earning their trust: how to help a child in care feel secure

Embracing Growth and Community: Challenge Community Services Opens New Support Office in Tamworth

Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD) – The “invisible disability”

Finding a vocation in an unlikely place

Finding career inspiration after school

Finding inspiration for your NDIS Plan

Finding new hope with Supported Independent Living

Five tips to cope with anxiety during COVID

Focus on feelings: one way to help a child with behaviours of concern

Foster care: enriching the whole family

Foster love: a critical link for Ella

Foster to adoption brings new beginnings

Fostering as a single parent: Jason’s Story

From L-plates to excavator tickets: How Quirindi clients are getting qualified

Giving a child a second chance

Giving hope in the face of a bleak future

Giving young talent a start

Grief & Loss: when the foster care placement ends

Gunnedah Challenge Swimming Carnival a great success

Gunnedah Swimming Carnival 2024

Hayden’s Journey: A day in the life of a Disability Support Worker

Helping children in care grieve

Hidden grief: the experience of loss in out of home care

How career skills can shape your foster care journey

How one small boy enriched a family

How Supervised Contact Workers support children and young people in foster care

How to create a peaceful physical space

How to Support Your Teen’s Identity

How Warialda locals work towards their goals

Hunter’s vulnerable children doing it tough

Is it a Temper Tantrum or a Meltdown?

Join our Dubbo foster care info session

Josh’s Story: Building life skills with Challenge

Lizzie and Abby living the life they love!

Managing behaviour of concern: breaking the conflict cycle

Managing sibling relationships in foster care

Max’s journey to finding a stable family

Meet Mary

My Foster Care Journey: Verity’s Story

NAIDOC Week 2024

National Pyjama Day 2024

National Reconciliation Week 2023

National Reconciliation Week 2024: “Now More Than Ever”

Navigating Christmas Burnout: 5 Expert Tips to Manage Holiday Stress

Neurodiversity Celebration Week & International Women’s Day: Elevating the Voices of Neurodivergent Women

Nicholas celebrates 20 years with Tamworth Recyling!

Opening their homes: giving children in need a future

Our Board Hits the Road in the Hunter Region

Our happy place: a house filled with children

Out and about at events in October

Out of control: creating a calm home environment for troubled children

Pain-Based Behaviours in Foster Care: What’s Really Going On?

Parenting a Teen with Autism: Nicole and Scott’s Story

Purpose-Built Specialist Disability Accommodation (SDA) is Changing Lives

Q&A: Client matching in Supported Independent Living

Raising Awareness and Building Support: Our Foster Care Teams in Action

Rheanne’s story: Greater confidence through Supported Independent Living

Room for one more

Sarah-Jane Schulze: A Trailblazer in Paralympic Swimming

School holiday fun for all ages

Searching for the perfect housemate in Maitland? Meet Steven!

Searching for the perfect housemate on the Central Coast? Meet Jamie!

She overcame domestic violence trauma to regain care of children

Specialist Disability Accommodation – A home designed for your needs

Start Up incubator catches the eye of 7.30 Report

Start Up incubator for people with intellectual disability begins in Mayfield

Start Up: Paving the path to self-employment

Staying strong: a little self-care goes a long way

Steve, Sharni and Carolyn’s journeys into employment

Supported Independent Living: Brisbane home right fit for Stacy

Supported Independent Living: How Jamie gained his independence

Supported Independent Living: Michael’s story

Supporting children after a natural disaster

Supporting NDIS participants with the skills they need to become self-employed

Supporting our community through disaster

Supporting the leaders of tomorrow

Supporting you to achieve your goals in 2020

Supporting Young People in Foster Care to Thrive

Swimming success and lifelong friends

Tamworth Community Supports: Gone Fishing!

Tech Talk: Helping teens stay safe on social media

Tech Talk: Helping teens stay safe online

Ten benefits of therapy

The Challenge Community Art Competition exhibition photos and winners

The most important role of your life: caring for our most vulnerable

The neurodivergent shift.

The power of one dedicated foster carer

The power of predictability

The Power of Trusting Relationships in Care

The Regional Entrepreneurship Challenge is coming soon

Therapy Services and Autism

Tony’s journey towards a more independent future

Tony’s story – how he’s inspiring others to challenge their disability

Top 10 FAQs about Supported Independent Living

Top 5 accessible holiday destinations!

Understanding Supported Independent Living (SIL) and Specialist Disability Accommodation (SDA)

We’re Stepping Up for STEPtember!

What Does It Mean to Be Trauma-Informed in Foster Care?

What is a Positive Behaviour Support Practitioner?

What is Supported Independent Living?

What NDIS funding for Supported Independent Living means for you

What support will I receive as a foster carer?

What’s left to do? 3 activities to get through the school holidays

Why Focusing on Development Really Matters in Foster Care

Young people living with a disability empowered through Challenge Connexions

Your partner in care: the role of the Challenge Case Worker