Fed: More than $1 million for disadvantaged communities

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Fed: More than $1 million for disadvantaged communities

More than $1 million has been allocated to help disadvantaged communities tackle problemssuch as child abuse, family violence, financial management and rural unemployment.

Family and Community Services Minister AMANDA VANSTONE says $275,000 will go towardsthe national child abuse prevention program, Choose with Care.

$400,000 has been earmarked for the Bendigo-based Lead On program, which has involvedover 650 rural youths and almost 150 businesses in community-based projects since it beganfour years ago.

$150,000 will go to financial management workshops in remote Indigenous communitiesin the Northern Territory.

The Centre for Community Child Health at the Royal Children's Hospital in Parkville,Victoria will receive $67,700 to run a national workshop and produce a plan for detectingchildren with developmental problems.

And the Alice Springs-based Family as Community project will receive $264,000 to helpindigenous families develop strategies against unemployment, poor health, violence, crimeand substance misuse.

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KEYWORD: DISADVANTAGED (CANBERRA)