{"id":2031,"date":"2012-05-18T03:52:36","date_gmt":"2012-05-17T17:52:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/inthenews\/?p=2031"},"modified":"2015-04-29T13:49:05","modified_gmt":"2015-04-29T03:49:05","slug":"ward-grandparent-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/ward-grandparent-program\/","title":{"rendered":"RCH Ward Grandparent Program"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_2033\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2033\" style=\"width: 210px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/2012\/05\/18\/ward-grandparent-program\/wgp\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2033\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-2033   \" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/files\/2012\/05\/WGP-210x160.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"210\" height=\"160\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2033\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">One-year-old Minni Anstee with Ward Grandparent Isabel Mellado. Photo courtesy of Ten News.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Royal Children&#8217;s Hospital (RCH)\u00a0is currently looking for more volunteers to join our Ward Grandparent Program.<\/p>\n<p>Ward Grandparents like Isabel Mellado spend around three hours a day, three days per week at the RCH looking after patients like one-year-old Minni Anstee.<\/p>\n<p>Ward Grandparents\u00a0spend quality time with\u00a0RCH patients\u00a0to enhance the psychological health and well being of children and infants who are unable to be fully supported by parents, often\u00a0during long\u00a0periods of hospitalisation.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Ward Grandparent Program\" href=\"http:\/\/ten.com.au\/ten-news-melbourne.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Click here<\/a> to watch the full story on the Ten News website and <a title=\"Ward Grandparent Program information\" href=\"http:\/\/www.rch.org.au\/socialwork\/wgp.cfm?doc_id=13488\" target=\"_blank\">click here <\/a>for more information on the RCH Ward Grandparent Program.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Royal Children&#8217;s Hospital (RCH) is currently looking for more volunteers to join our Ward Grandparent Program.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":41,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-the-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2031","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/41"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2031"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2031\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2039,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2031\/revisions\/2039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}