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  • Austprem
    Through Austprem, families who have experienced the complex challenges of parenting a premature infant reach out to other families facing this journey, and offer friendship, information and support.
  • Australian Multiple Birth Association
    Support from 'those who know'. For families with twins, triplets, quadruplets and more...
  • Bonnie Babes Foundation
    The Bonnie Babies Foundation is a counselling service for families that have experienced the loss of a baby through miscarriage, stillbirth or prematurity and related issues such as infertility.
  • L'il Aussie Prems
    Australia’s online support site for parents and families of premature babies.
  • Miracle Babies
    Miracle Babies celebrates and honours the birth of babies who enter our world challenged by prematurity or sickness.
  • Moment by Moment
    My main aim is to help other families by providing links to information and family support services and selling clothing and accessories. Most importantly of all I want to make all the Mums and Dads smile. If you know someone who has had a premature baby please direct them to this site or email me at fiona@momentbymoment.com. and I will help in anyway possible.
  • National Premmie Foundation
    6 of Australia’s prem support groups have come together to form a national organization that will unify, and act as a guiding body for existing prem support groups, help to create new ones, help to improve the treatments and outcomes available for premature infants, and represent the interests of these infants and their families in terms of health policies, funding and standards of care.
  • PIPA - Preterm Infants' Parents' Association
    PIPA was formed in 1980 to provide a support network for the families dealing with the Premature birth of their baby in Queensland and Northern New South Wales Hospitals. For over 25 years this work has been carried on by a large number of volunteers whose lives have been touched and changed by a premature birth.
  • SANDS - QLD
    SANDS (Qld) Inc. provides mutual support, information, education and advocacy for parents and their families who experience the death of their baby to miscarriage, stillbirth, neonatal death and other reproductive losses.
  • SANDS - SA
    SANDS offers support to all bereaved parents and relatives who have suffered the death of a baby anytime from conception through to 28 days after birth - this includes, miscarriage, neonatal death, stillbirth, ectopic pregnancy and genetic/medically advised termination. Our support to bereaved parents does not cut off at 28 days after birth, bereaved parents whose baby dies later in infancy are also welcome to SANDS. SANDS (SA) is a statewide, self help voluntary organisation run by and for bereaved parents. We receive no government funding and rely heavily on fund-raising efforts and donations. SANDS also exist in other States and the ACT. There is a National SANDS body to which States belong. SANDS is a self help group consisting solely of bereaved parents. SANDS bring bereaved parents together in a number of ways, through a Newsletter, Support meetings, and over the telephone. Parents who are 'down the track' in their grief, and who have done some training, support those who are just starting to grieve.
  • SANDS - VIC
    SANDS is a self-help support group comprised of parents who have experienced the death of a baby through miscarriage, stillbirth, or shortly after birth. SANDS provides immediate and ongoing support to bereaved parents, families and friends. Sharing with others who have had similar experiences can assist parents to work through the often intense grief which follows the death of a baby.
  • Sids and Kids
    SIDS and Kids is dedicated to saving babies' lives through the elimination of sudden and unexpected infant deaths, and supporting bereaved families. We deliver on our vision through world class education, research, evidenced based intervention and advocacy.
  • Teddy Love Club
    Teddy Love Club Pregnancy and Infant Loss Support is a support program for bereaved parents who suffer the loss of their baby or babies to miscarriage, genetic inducement of labour, stillbirth and neo natal death.
  • The Featherweight Club (VIC)
    The Featherweight Club is a voluntary organisation established to support the families and babies of the Special Care Nurseries at Mercy Hospital for Women in Heidelberg, Melbourne and to raise awareness of their particular needs, both within the hospital environment and the broader community.

We love our supporters - Meet Johanna Hayes from The Photo Store

 It is so lovely when people put their hand up to help out the ACOCP, so we'd like to introduce and give a shout out to Johanna Hayes from The Photo Store

About

Johanna Hayes – The Photo Store www.thephotostore.com.au

The Photo Store is an importer and wholesaler of professional photo albums and photographic presentation products.

We have been supplying albums to Pro Photographers and Glamour Studios since 1997. Our range of products is the "off-the-shelf" alternative to custom album manufacture, so our pricing is ultra competitive and stock is readily available.  The Photo Store’s albums are not limited to Wedding use. Proud parents can display precious family photographs and Graduation memories. You can use the album to present your own portfolio of photos, giving them a "Professional Look". Groups of friends and family can share the cost and purchase a wonderful Anniversary Gift or Wedding Present.

How did you find out about the ACOCP?

 I saw a recent advertisement in the AIPP Newsletter calling for volunteer photographers. I was intrigued and went to the website to read more. As soon as I read about Siobhan Cowell and her past life as a Registered Nurse I felt an instant connection. I too had been an Intensive Care Nurse and could relate to how precious photographic memories would be for families with critically ill children.

What made you to want to help the ACOCP?

Put simply, I’ve been really lucky to have 2 sons who are happy and well. As a nurse I saw many who weren’t so lucky.  

I knew that I couldn’t take photos, but I could offer photo albums to present the gift of photographic memories to the families.

Why do you think we need a community like the ACOCP?  

Life is not always a fairytale and unfortunately the ending isn’t always happy. The kindness of volunteer photographers with the ACOCP can help keep memories alive in the hearts of the recipients.

Johanna is one of our newest supporters and we really appreciate her commitment to the ACOCP 

Without the help of people like Johanna the ACOCP would not be the great organisation it is today

Thanks Johanna! 

Posted on August 20, 2008 in Meet our ACOCP supporters | | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

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