Parenting Program Services
Centacare and the Family Relationship Centre are here to help you strengthen family relationships, help families stay together and assist families through separation.
Centacare NENW offers the following parenting programs and education groups:
Building Connections – One 3-hour session
This 3-hour program aims to help separated parents have healthy and strong relationships with their children.
The pre-meditation program covers:
- Ways of communicating with the other parent
- The impact of separation and conflict on children
- Setting goals for future parenting
Keeping Kids in Mind – Five 3-hour sessions (FEES APPLY)
This 5-week court approved post separation parenting course designed to help separated or divorced parents in high conflict.
This course covers:
- How to help parents handle strong emotions better
- Understanding how entrenched conflict negatively affects children
- Tips for parenting during tough times
Circle of Security Parenting – Eight 90-minute sessions
The Circle of Security Parenting program is based on research about how secure parent – child relationships can be strengthened. This program is designed for parents/caregivers of children aged 0-4 years.
Parents and carers will learn to:
- Understand your child’s emotional world by learning to read the emotional needs.
- Support your child’s ability to successfully manage emotions.
- Enhance the development of your child’s self-esteem
Surviving Your Adolescents – Two 3-hour sessions
Provides parents with some useful skills for dealing with teenage behaviour. Surviving Your Adolescents helps parents to better understand:
- What is normal behaviour for a teenager
- How to manage risk-taking
- tips to maintain and improve your relationship with your teenager
- What not to do and what to do with your teens.
Helping Children with Trauma – Four 3-hour sessions
This course helps parents/caregivers to:
- Understanding the behaviour of children with developmental trauma
- What to look for and how to help
- Attachment and why it’s important
- Using PACE and Therapeutic Parenting
- Vicarious or Secondary Trauma and how to take care of yourself
- Helping children thrive with the Six Core Strengths
Tuning in to Kids – Six 2-hour sessions
This program aims to teach parents and carers skills in recognising, understanding and managing their own and their children’s emotions. For parents/caregivers of children aged 2-12 years old.
Parents and carers will learn to:
- Improve talking with and understanding your child
- Help your child learn to manage their emotions
- Help to prevent behaviour problems in your child
- Teach your child to deal with conflict
Tuning in to Teens – three 3-hour sessions
For parents of children aged 12-24 years. This course helps parents/caregivers to:
- improve communication with and understanding of 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
- Help your teen develop their emotional intelligence
Parenting Explosive Kids – Four 3hour sessions
For parents of children who are easily frustrated and chronically inflexible.
Parents will learn to:
- Identify the child’s concerns & triggers that cause the behaviour
- Teach the child coping skills and find workable solutions that satisfy both parent and child.
Practical Parenting – Three weekly sessions
Practical Parenting offers strategies to take the stress out of parenting. Suitable for parents of children aged 0-12 years old.
Parents will learn:
- 12 strategies to help your child
- Better ways to discipline
- Helping children with their emotions
- Collaborating with your child
- What gets in the way of parenting
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Helping with parent anger
Bringing Up Great Kids - Six 2-hour sessions
A mindful, reflective and respectful parenting program with a focus on building loving and nurturing relationships between parents and carers and their children. This program is designed for parents/caregivers of children aged 0-6 years.
The Bringing Up Great Kids program supports parents and carers to:
- Reflect on their own parenting style.
- Learn about the child’s brain & the relationship to behaviour
- Explore communication
- Overcome obstacles getting in the way of being the kind of parent they would like to be
- Learn about the importance of parents/carers self-care
Helping Children with Trauma – Four 3-hour sessions
This course helps parents/caregivers to:
- Understanding the behaviour of children with developmental trauma
- What to look for and how to help
- Attachment and why it’s important
- Using PACE and Therapeutic Parenting
- Vicarious or Secondary Trauma and how to take care of yourself
- Helping children thrive with the Six Core Strengths
Toolkit for Dads – one 3 hour session
Helping Dads learn about:
- What gets in the way
- What to do if you ‘lose it’ and new ways to discipline
- self-care for dads
For more information on our parenting programs or to register for any upcoming sessions please call 1800 272
826
or speak with one of our facilitators directly on 6738
7200
