Parenting

6-week interactive group for fathers with children aged 0-17 years. The group will help explore: (Note term 3 group has been cancelled)

• Parenting
• Children’s development
• Healthy relationships
• Managing a work/life balance
• Cyber safety Supports and activities available to you and your children
  

  Contact Number:	(03) 5990 8400
  Email:	[email protected]

  Please refer to attached flyer as it contains dates and times for all 4 terms of 2025. Flyer

Are you a parent under 25? Would you like to meet other young parents with children aged 0-5 years? Come along to this playgroup, enjoy activities with your child and meet other young parents.

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MacKillop Family Services’ Early Help Program is excited to facilitate a vibrant peer support group for multicultural mothers raising children in Australia. This community driven initiative provides a welcoming space where mothers can connect, share experiences, and engage in discussions that cater to their unique needs.

Each session is shaped by the collective input of the mothers and the Early Help team, ensuring that topics and themes reflect what matters most to the group. These interactive sessions promote positive relationships within families and the wider community, fostering both personal growth and stronger family connections. The group actively encourages participation from both mothers and their children, creating a nurturing environment that supports the well-being of all. Since its inception, the group has expanded from two families to six, and we invite other mothers in the Pakenham area to join us.

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The New Parent Infant Network (Newpin) is a centre based parenting program, which provides an interactive and supportive approach to enhancing parent-child relationships. Newpin supports parents and children’s social and emotional development through individual and group work programs that support parents to build their self-esteem and confidence in parenting.

What does the program offer?

• One on one parenting support
• Information about your child’s development
• Parent education groups on topics such as sleep, fussy eating, behaviour management
• Individual play groups
• Getting to know other parents with children of similar age

Contact the program on (03) 9793 3707 or email [email protected]

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This 6- week program offers an opportunity to reflect on parenting and adolescent, and how you can support your child in having the experiences you hope for as they grow. It is suitable for parents and carers of children aged 10-17 years.

• Explore your parenting style.
• Learn more about brain development during the adolescent period and it’s influence on adolescents thoughts, feelings and behaviour.
• Explore new ways of communicating with your adolescents.
• Discover ways to take care of yourself, practice self-compassion and how to find support when needed.

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This program is aimed at supporting parents to become more informed about neurodiversity and build off their ability to connect with their child. It also offers a supportive space for parents to share experiences with others on a similar journey.

What we’ll explore together 

• Understanding ADHD, ASD and other neurodivergence
• Building confidence in parenting
• Supporting your own self care
• Connecting with others with shared experiences

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Parents are telling us that they are concerned about their children’s safety online, but with technology evolving so quickly, it is very difficult to ‘keep up’

These 3 sessions will build on each other and focus on informing and equipping parents to explore topics such as:

• Understanding online child exploitation and keeping our children safe (guest speaker from the Australian Federal Police presenting the ThinkUKnow program for session one)
• Setting reasonable and appropriate boundaries around tech use at home.
• Parental controls- what they are and how to use them.
• Understanding the risks of online gaming.

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This engaging six session parenting program is designed for parents and carers of children aged 2-10 years.

Based on an easy-to-follow five-step emotional coaching approach, Tuning into Kids empowers families to build stronger relationships and support children’s emotional well-being.

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A free six session parenting program for parents of teens aged 10-18 years.

Would you like to lean how to:

• Be better at talking with your teen?
• Be better at understanding your teen?
• Help your teen learn to manage their emotions?
• Help to prevent behaviour problems in your teen?
• Teach your teen to deal with conflict?

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Please refer to the attached document that outlines the regular group parenting programs that Uniting offer. Also find below flyer containing contact details.

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