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22 Apr 2026
Celebrating decades of connection and support at Noah’s Ark Bundoora
In July 2017, Noah’s Ark and the Education Program for Infants & Children Incorporated (EPIC) came together under the auspice of Noah’s Ark—a significant milestone that united decades of shared expertise and commitment to supporting families of children with disability or developmental delay.
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04 Mar 2026
Planned leadership transition at Noah’s Ark
Noah’s Ark announces a planned CEO transition. Our current CEO, John Forster’s final working day is Friday 26 June 2026 following formal resignation to the Board on 23 February 2026. The Board has commenced a search for the next CEO. Services continue without interruption and the mission remains unchanged.
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12 Dec 2025
John Forster celebrates 25 years of making a difference, the Noah’s Ark way
This year, CEO John Forster marked 25 years with Noah's Ark.
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17 Nov 2025
Noah's Ark Annual Report 2025
Leadership in Early Intervention, inclusive practice, and family-centred support remain central to Noah’s Ark’s identity.
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12 Nov 2025
Noah's Ark makes submission to the Thriving Kids Inquiry
Our submission to the Thriving Kids Inquiry reflects our long-standing commitment to evidence-informed practice in Australia.
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27 Oct 2025
Family Survey Results 2024–25: Listening, Learning, Improving
Each year, Noah’s Ark invites families to share their experiences through the Family Outcomes Survey, helping us understand what’s working well and how we can better support children and families.
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10 Oct 2025
Noah's Ark presents at the 2025 Early Childhood Australia National Conference
In early October, Noah’s Ark had the incredible honour of presenting at the 2025 Early Childhood Australia National Conference, 'Universal not Uniform: Leading change, strengthening unity and honouring individuality', which was held in Perth/Boorloo, Western Australia.
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01 Jul 2025
Noah's Ark staff present at Occupational Therapy Australia's National Conference
It was an honor to present and also to absorb so many thought-provoking sessions.
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27 Jun 2025
Loss of in-home support under NDIS travel pricing changes will disadvantage vulnerable families
Noah’s Ark’s CEO John Forster has deep concern about the upcoming changes to NDIS travel pricing, due to come into effect on 1 July 2025.
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18 Feb 2025
Noah’s Ark welcomes Tara McLaughlin as we launch our pilot of Embedded Learning Support Australia
This week Noah’s Ark had the privilege of hosting Associate Professor Tara McLaughlin (Massey University) to train some of our staff in Embedded Learning Support and Practice Based Coaching, as we commence our pilot of Embedded Learning Support Australia.
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10 Dec 2024
Noah's Ark Annual Report 2024
There is a new horizon for children with disabilities and developmental delays and their families, following the review of the National Disability Insurance Scheme. It is an important period of change and Noah’s Ark can be proud of its contribution.
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05 Dec 2024
Noah's Ark Heidelberg hosts Parliamentary Secretary for Disability
Noah's Ark was privileged to partner with Down Syndrome Victoria and MyTime to host Iwan Walters MP, Parliamentary Secretary for Disability to our Heidelberg site this week for International Day of People with Disability.
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26 Aug 2024
Speech Pathology Week and Let's Chat
Speech Pathology Mentors, Heather and Steph, discuss our upcoming Let's Chat online course which helps educators increase their skills and knowledge in oral language and literacy.
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23 Jul 2024
Minister Bill Shorten announces an NDIA Children's Expert Advisory Group at Noah's Ark Heidelberg
The group features some of Australia’s most respected early childhood experts and will help shape improvements to the experience of children and their families in the NDIS.
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19 Jul 2024
New Learning and Development Blog
Noah's Ark has published the first of many articles to be featured on the new Learning & Development Blog on our refreshed Professionals Hub.
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07 May 2024
Celebrating RAP week
Members of the Bendigo/Ballarat Team gathered at our local Bendigo Botanic Gardens’ Larni Garingilang precinct.
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23 Apr 2024
New Graduate Connection Day
On Thursday the 21st of March, Noah's Ark hosted the first New Graduation Connection Day at our Wyndham site.
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08 Mar 2024
Noah's Ark CEO John Forster meets with Minister for the NDIS and Government Services, Bill Shorten MP
On Thursday 7 March, Minister for the NDIS and Government Services, Bill Shorten MP visited Bendigo, Victoria.
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18 Jan 2024
Noah's Ark participant creates LEGO® stop motion video
Bettina Barber from the Noah's Ark Albury team has shared a video made by one of her clients.
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17 Jan 2024
Deborah Ang wins a Melbourne University award
Deb from the Noah's Ark Craigieburn team was recently the recipient of the Excellence in Clinical Education 2023 Award from Melbourne University's Speech Pathology Clinical Education Team.
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07 Dec 2023
Training Manager, Lou Ambrosy in Singapore
In late November, Training Manager Lou Ambrosy was the invited keynote speaker to the Development Support Learning Program in Singapore.
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15 Nov 2023
Noah's Ark Annual Report 2023
Reconnection with our community. It has been a year of connections and reconnections inside and outside the organisation.
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17 Oct 2023
NDIS Review: A response to ‘moving from defining problems to defining solutions.’
This response will discuss two issues critical to the future of services for children with disabilities and their families.
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10 Oct 2023
Reconciliation Action Plan launch
The Reconciliation Action Plan (RAP) was launched at Bendigo Noah's Ark, Wednesday the 4th of October and included a Welcome to Country, Smoking Ceremony and didgeridoo performance from the Traditional Landowners, the Djarra (Dja Dja Wurrung people).
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15 Aug 2023
Shoot to Score group program runs in Melton
It was with great excitement that we offered our Shoot To Score Group Basketball Program in the July School holidays to clients on the Melton Team for the second time this year.
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04 Aug 2023
Dr Paul Prichard presents training in Bendigo
Noah's Ark was thrilled to welcome Dr Paul Prichard to present training in Bendigo this week.
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19 Jun 2023
Free Kindergarten to School Transition Program for Parents
The program is funded by the Victorian Department of Education, and aims to help parents and families learn about how to best support their child to be ready to start school next year.
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31 May 2023
Family survey results 2023
Over six weeks we surveyed families and received 140 responses. Here are the results.
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25 May 2023
The age of children supported under the NDIS early childhood approach is changing
From 1 July 2023, the early childhood approach will progressively change to include children younger than 9.
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20 Mar 2023
Noah's Ark makes submission to the Independent Review of the NDIS
While the NDIS is a generous program, there are many issues for children with disabilities and their families in the way it is currently implemented.
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19 Dec 2022
Noah's Ark Annual Report 2022
Noah’s Ark celebrated its 50th birthday in 2021, an important milestone in working with families to help build better futures for children with disabilities.
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20 Jun 2022
Noah's Ark runs training in Singapore
The Noah's Ark Training team recently returned from 2 weeks in Singapore working with AWWA.
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18 May 2022
New co-working space in Canberra
The team have a suite to utilise for deep work and then shared spaces, depending on the purpose of their work together.
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10 Mar 2022
Noah's Ark supports International Women's Day
Our teams got involved in IWD2022 by crossing their arms in support of this year's theme 'Break the Bias'.
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11 Feb 2022
Noah's Ark conducts training in Maitland, NSW
Training Manager Lou Ambrosy ran a training session for Early Links with a focus on best practices for Early Childhood Intervention.
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06 Dec 2021
Noah's Ark Annual Report 2021
The Annual Report for last year was made available at the Annual General Meeting held in late 2021.
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23 Nov 2020
Noah’s Ark Annual Report 2020
The Annual Report for last year was made available at the Annual General Meeting held in late 2020.
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29 Jan 2020
Noah's Ark Annual Report 2019
The Annual Report for last year was made available at the Annual General Meeting held in late 2019.
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11 Jul 2019
Celebrating NAIDOC Week
Hundreds of children attended with their families, carers or education centres and participated in a wide variety of activities.
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14 May 2019
Zalie donates her art to Noah’s Ark
Joanne and Zalie Copeland present ‘balloons’ to Bundoora Team Leader, Lynn Duncan.
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18 Nov 2018
Noah's Ark Annual Report 2018
The 2018 Annual Report for Noah's Ark was made available at the Annual General Meeting held on Thursday, 15 November 2018.
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25 Oct 2018
Dr Kerry Bull speaks at Early Childhood Conference, Florida
Noah’s Ark is sharing their effective approach to teamwork and the Key Worker model at the Division for Early Childhood conference in Orlando, Florida.
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18 Apr 2018
$10,000 Community Grant
Pakenham and Wonthaggi branches welcome this wonderful contribution.
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01 Dec 2017
Michelle Kenny speaks at Early Childhood Education Inclusion Conference
Michelle Kenny was recently in Surawak, Malaysia speaking at the first Conference on Early Childhood Education Inclusion: The Way Forward.
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28 Nov 2017
NDIS Options and Services Expand in Ballarat
The Noah’s Ark Ballarat branch was set up 12 months ago and recently expanded its services by adding a speech therapist and occupational therapist.
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14 Nov 2017
Noah's Ark Annual Report 2017
Noah’s Ark is committed to providing detailed information about our services, organisation and financial performance in our annual reports.
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13 Jul 2017
Welcoming EPIC to Noah's Ark
Noah’s Ark and the Education Program for Infants & Children Incorporated (EPIC) are merging.
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15 Nov 2016
Farewell Ken: volunteer of 34 years
For 34 years Ken Bunn has been a volunteer at our Geelong centre.
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04 Nov 2016
Students build bikes for Noah’s Ark
Three children from our Hoppers Crossing and Tarneit branches were presented with new bikes and helmets.
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28 Sep 2016
Tim wins gold at the Rio Paralympics
Noah’s Ark congratulates Tim Disken on his three medal haul at the 2016 Paralympics.
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15 Aug 2016
Werribee family's fundraising gesture
A social evening arranged by the Giarrusso family has raised $1000 at auction.
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21 Jun 2016
Bikes for Tykes
Thank you to The Mercury Group and Corporate Challenge for the bikes and helmets!
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04 Jan 2016
Noah's Ark siblings receive bikes
Three siblings each received a new bike, thanks to Corporate Challenge and Goodyear and Dunlop Tyres (ANZ).
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16 Sep 2015
Noah's Ark welcomes NDIS agreement
The Victorian government has signed the Bilateral National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) Agreement with the Federal Government, securing the rollout of the NDIS across the state.
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