Welcome to OzVPM! Many of you would be familiar with other volunteer management newsgroups - CyberVPM probably being the best known of these. While the content...
Hello everyone out there. I excitedly watch the membership slowly build and look forward to the opportunity of discussing our sector and challenging and...
Hello to everyone who reads this message. We are a centre that helps volunteers in the widespread area of South Gippsland. We are situated at 14 McCartin St...
Dear All Just to introduce myself and the Centre fo Philanthropy and Nonprofit Studies at Queensland University of Technology. (CPNS) My name is Ted Flack and...
Thanks Ted and everyone who has posted already - let me please encourage you all to send a brief introductory message to the group so we know who is hiding...
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Rosemary Sage
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Jul 2, 2002 5:34 am
Hi Volunteering SA is putting a submission to the SA Child Protection Review, due in on July 12th. Has anyone put a submission to the child protection review...
Hi Rosemary Our organisation / volunteers have been mentioned as a part of the overall Lyell McEwin Health Service submission. This submission basically states...
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Peter Heyworth
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Jul 2, 2002 6:06 am
What responsibilties do the volunteers have regarding mandatory notifcation in your organisation? My understanding it is not a legal requirement for...
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Michelle Elding
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Jul 2, 2002 6:36 am
Dear Peter, I am not sure what the legislation states in South Australia re mandatory reporting but I do know that in certain States professionals - school ...
Hi again everyone, The following has been supplied to me by our staff development unit and relates specifically to the act. It is my understanding that this is...
Hi All As a long term member (and moderator) of cyberVPM it is great to see an Aus version of this happening. Just to introduce myself briefly (to those here...
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Rosemary Sage
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Jul 2, 2002 7:28 am
Thanks Andy I'll keep that in mind with my submission Cheers Rose...
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Peter Heyworth
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Jul 2, 2002 7:51 am
Very helpful information, since I am aware of a number of volunteering involving organisations where volunteers work with children and they are not treated as...
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Conrad Powell
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Jul 2, 2002 3:02 pm
I'm doing a paper for a national conference in August and the theme is "Administrative Loads on Volunteer Leaders".My request to your readers is to stomp on...
Hello Conrad I am not sure if the "Administrative Loads on Volunteer Leaders" refers only to Volunteer Volunteer Leaders in this context or whether it refers...
I hope you wont take the following comments as critical, but rather complementary to your comments: 1. The ABS statistics on the incidence of volunteering in...
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Northern Parent Resou...
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Jul 2, 2002 11:38 pm
Attention Peter Heyworth Our Program runs a Mobile Creche Service using solely volunteers in the Salisbury and Playford Council Areas. As part of their...
Hi all Wow! What a quality of posts and topics we have already and we are only up to message 17!!! I just wanted to make an associated comment / observation...
Hi All, I'm with you Andy - what is needed is a balance between competency and value based decision making. The problem as I see it is that the boundaries...
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Northern Carers Netwo...
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Jul 3, 2002 8:02 am
Hi all, I don't know what the answers are to the dilemmas associated with Community Boards of management however would like to reflect on the organisation...
Hi i'm a workplace assessor and also a trainer with the Country Fire Service (which also involves training cadets (11-16 yr olds). Should this information be...
Welcome OzVPMers! It doesn't surprise me at all that there have been 17 posts to this brand new listserv, since I suspected that Andy Fryar was right in his...
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Rosemary Sage
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Jul 3, 2002 11:49 pm
Hi As a NFP service deliverer I have noticed subtle changes over time about the relationship between gov and nfp's. Our sector lobbied and encouraged...
Hi Justin In light of some of the horror stories we have been hearing lately I believe this needs to be highlighted in whatever way possible. I am not sure,...
One of the reasons I believe this newsgroup will be so valuable is that it will really enable us to link into and strengthen the similarities we all have...
As someone who works in a regional area of NSW I would have to say there are very few "dedicated position" Volunteer Program Managers. Organisations such as...
In the latest edition of Volunteer Management Review, Sarah Elliston write's an interesting article about the use of the term volunteer in the USA - and...
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Conrad Powell
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Jul 5, 2002 5:35 am
My grateful thanks to Ted [and so many others for first class contribution to the issue {and my paper!}]. Ted I think captures the dilemma in technicolour - ...
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wendy walters
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Jul 5, 2002 6:34 am
Having only been in the Volunteering industry for a short time (10 months as Manager of Peel Volunteer Resource Centre) I have been busy learning all I can is...
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Joy Barrett
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Jul 5, 2002 7:11 am
The School of Volunteer Management (part of Volunteering NSW) offers training to Diploma level around Australia by external studies and some direct teaching....
