What about Me? has been developed to support primary school aged children who have experienced family separation and/or reside with only one of their parents. The program aims to address the impact of separation and parental conflict and provides support to children in a safe environment.
Join other parents and learn more about parenting and how best to support your child’s development and behaviour.
This 9-week Solihull parenting program is for parents and carers with children aged up to 8 years. You’ll explore a range of topics from having fun together through to tackling challenging behaviours.
This program will be held in a mixed-delivery method format with some sessions in person held at Parkdale Family and Children’s Centre and some held online via Zoom.
Anyone who is a parent/carer of children between 0-8, and living, working or studying in the City of Kingston can attend.
PEACEFUL PARENTING – 6 week free face to face program for parents and carers of kids of all ages
- Are you tired of all the yelling – yours and theirs?
- Do you feel like you are reacting rather than knowing how to create more positive parenting and
family connections and times? - Do you have difficulties with increasing school participation?
- Do you have children with challenging behaviours for whatever reason – Living with ASD, Trauma, ages and stages of development; gender identity questions?
For parents, step‐parents, grandparents, families and carers of children of all ages trying to get children to school! There will be 3 face-to-face sessions. Come along to share ideas and create a checklist. Children can share their ideas too!
- How can school attendance be less stressful for you and the children?
- Are there jobs that need to be done the day or night before to be ready each day in the morning?
- What needs to happen in the morning to be ready for school?
Dates: Tuesdays July 30, August 6th & August 13th
Where: Mahogany Rise Primary School, Forster Avenue, Frankston North
Time: 3pm – 4pm
Cost: FREE
Contact Michelle Brown for more information: [email protected]
Join us for our “how to” parenting workshops
Session one: How to establish positive family relationships
- Understand how to develop and maintain positive relationships with your children
- Help your children learn to make great choices
- Explore the importance of rules and boundaries
Session two: How to foster your child’s resilience and self esteem
Did you know that another word for resilience is “bouncebackability” ?
- Understand how parents can support their children to develop a resilient mindset
- Explore parental behaviours that help children to develop self esteem
Find the flyer with further information here
Register here
Being Dad is a 6-week interactive group for fathers with children aged 0-17.
This group will explore parenting, children’s development, healthy relationships and much more.
This group is open to fathers/step-fathers/carers in the Southern Metropolitan Region and Bayside Peninsula Areas.
Bookings essential.
SafeCare is a parenting program for parents and caregivers of children aged 0-5 years. SafeCare educators work with families to increase the positive interactions they have with their child, keep their child healthy and make their home safe.
SafeCare topic areas
Parent Child Interaction/Parent Infant Interaction (PCI/PII)
This module helps parents and caregivers to increase the positive interactions they have with their child during play and daily activities. PCI can also help to reduce challenging behaviours in young children.
Health
This module helps parents and caregivers prepare for when their child is sick or injured and recognise when symptoms need emergency care, a doctor’s appointment or can be cared for at home. Parents and caregivers are given a health manual and shown how to maintain good health records and keep children as healthy as possible.
Home Safety
This module helps parents and caregivers to identify and remove common household hazards and understand the importance of child supervision.
The SafeCare approach
Educators begin each topic with an observation. Educators then work with the parents or caregivers to develop their skills, with a final observation undertaken at the end of the topic.
SafeCare educators conduct weekly home visits, with the program being completed in 18 sessions.
There are also options to deliver some of the program online if necessary.
Space 4 Us is a peer support group for young people who have a parent, carer or family member living with mental health challenges either in the home or in their family network.
The group runs for 6 weeks and is free to participants living in the Bayside Peninsula area. The program aims to give children and young people opportunities to:
• Enjoy food together and have fun doing activities
• Try out different games and crafts
• Meet others with similar experiences
• Receive information and support
• Learn about healthy coping strategies and ways to look after your wellbeing
• Talk about mental health challenges
Join us for a fun afternoon with other young people while learning about looking after yourself and your wellbeing
Click on the URL here to complete the Group Work Registration Form. If you would like to attend our free group work.
12 – 16 year olds with a family member who experiences mental health challenges
Community Bubs focuses on strengthening families and helping parents to overcome risks and challenges in the early stages following their child’s birth, or in the final months of pregnancy to prepare for their arrival. It is an outreach program which identifies the family’s needs and supports them to work towards meeting their goals with the support of a skilled and trained practitioner. It also assists the family to link with a range of community-based support services utilising a case management model. Community Bubs aims to create a legacy of change which can be sustained, ensuring the wellbeing of the infant and parent when services are withdrawn.
How Community Bub Works
If a parent is in the last trimester of their pregnancy, or a family has a child under the age of 6 months old, Family Life’s Community Bubs program is able to provide case management support and assistance. Community Bubs combines intensive home visiting by professionals across a period of 6 – 9 months. Practitioners have a strong focus on aiding families to connect with their local community, providing opportunities for their babies to thrive. The program operates under the Best Interest Practice Guidelines and utilises a range of theoretical frameworks, including Attachment Theory, Trauma-Informed approaches, Feminist and Empowerment Theory and is underpinned by a strengths-based approach. Highly-skilled and trained practitioners utilise tools to plan and track progress, including the use of Family Action Plans and Outcome Stars
Program Objectives
• implementing a case management model to support family members to link with a range of support services, including (but not limited to): counselling, mediation, family violence, financial counselling and mental health services
• providing advocacy and referrals to appropriate support services through use of a care team approach • building the self-esteem and confidence of family members and caregivers
• providing psycho-education regarding parenting skills and attachment-based strategies
• educating family members on infant development and ways to support developmental milestones
• supporting family members who have experienced family violence and educating families on the impact of family violence on child development • improving communication skills between family members
• exploring further education and / or work opportunities across the family
• to provide a safe environment for the client and create opportunities to work through their trauma
• to identify and build on the current strengths and positive attributes of each family member
• to develop the family’s self-care routines through a trauma and client centred approach
• provide a tailored and individualised intervention, using internal and external supports to best meet the needs of the family Referral Criteria
• Referrals can be taken for the Community Bubs Program when the mother is in the last trimester of her pregnancy, or the baby is under 6 months of age.
How to refer:
Referrals can be made via the Bayside Peninsula
Orange Door – 1800 319 353. Alternatively,
self-referral can be made by contacting the
Family Life Families & Community Team:
(03) 8599 5433
[email protected]
197 Bluff Road, Sandringham VIC 3191
• Community Bubs is currently taking referrals for families residing in the City of Bayside and Kingston
Early Intervention- Parents Under Pressure Program
The Early Intervention-Parents under Pressure program aims to focus on families with identified vulnerabilities and intervening by building their resilience and parenting strategies to manage the stressors of parenting in this 8 week support group for parents in the Mornington Peninsula shire.
It also focuses on building their resilience to become attuned and connected positive parents.
This program looks at achieving this through early identification by working in partnership with early years settings to identify families that would benefit from an intervention and deploying the Parents Under Pressure Program.
EI PUP could provide therapeutic support for eligible parents in-home or in groups.
Eligibility
- Are you pregnant or do you have a child between the ages of 0-6 years?
- This program will focus on families that have increased stressors and triggers that will likely result in statutory involvement and higher service system use and dependency
- Participants will not have, or have had a child protection notification/involvement or integrated family services involvement previously
- Participants can be identified through the maternal health nurse program, supported playgroups, or early learning centres.
- Participants could have assessed development needs and have indicators of development delays and at risk of losing engagement in the early learning centre’s or the service system.
Contact Monica Kelly