Promoting hub programs is key. If people in the local community don’t know about the hub, they can’t come and join in. Here are some ideas that you can recommend to hub leaders.
Word of mouth
- Use parents and local leaders from cultural groups to spread the word about the hub. The more friendships that hub leaders can encourage, the more successful the hub will be.
Hub leaders can create and distribute promotional material
- Submit articles to the school newsletter.
- Display posters, flyers and timetables in reception areas and in prep/junior/reception classrooms.
- Consider translating materials or host a newsletter translation program each week.
- Encourage them to highlight when activities are free or when food will be on offer.
- Give timetables to classroom teachers.
- Drop flyers in their local community.
- As a support coordinator you can also distribute timetables.
- Encourage hub leaders to use social media.
Hub leaders can be the voice
- They can provide updates to their school and senior leaders.
- They can present at staff meetings and speak at service network meetings.
- They can hold activities where parents bring a friend.
- Suggest they attend festivals and invite local news media to cover special events.
Referrals
- Encourage hub leaders to keep you in the loop about new programs/events and recommend they develop an email list of people working in local support services.
Guiding the way
Help people find their local hub space
Let your hub leaders know that CHA will arrange for a sign to be placed at the front of their school. Your hub leaders can add directional signage if needed. This could include arrows, coloured lines and signs out the front of the hub space. Extra signs can be bought through CHA but the school needs to cover the cost of these. The cost for an extra sign and delivery is around $100.
Create a welcoming space