PARENTING & CHILDREN’S BEHAVIOUR GROUPS - TERM 4 2007 - SOUTH METRO
Websites
GENERAL PARENTING
Child & Youth Health has a range of topics on parenting and children’s health and development
from babyhood to young adulthood - www.cyh.com
Parenting SA has free Parent Easy Guides covering 70 different parenting topics and also some
specifically for Aboriginal parents - www.parenting.sa.gov.au
Raising Children - covers children 0-8 yrs and has fact sheets on children’s behaviour, development,
communication, health, nutrition, play and learning, and safety and sleep. It also has an A-Z
reference of common health issues - www.raisingchildren.net.au
ABC Parents, Parenting in Pictures - has step by step picture guides to help parents master basic
baby care skills, including baby massage, breastfeeding, changing nappies, how to stop choking,
resuscitation for babies and toddlers, bathing a newborn, safe sleeping and how to wrap a baby -
www.abc.net.au/parents/parenting_in_pictures/
Y Parenting Tips - www.ywca-sydney.com.au/Programs.asp?ProgramsID=25
Parenting Research Centre - surveys parenting issues and provides fact sheets on the findings eg.
pocket money survey. Click ‘Parenting Information’ at the end of the home page for fact sheets on
Teamwork, Getting your Child to Listen, and Your Child and the Media - www.parentingrc.org.au/
Michael Grose, an Australian parenting author, has free newsletters on parenting issues -
www.parentingideas.com.au
Chat First is a website for children and teens whose parents have separated or divorced -
www.chatfirst.com.au
Mirabel Foundation supports children who are in the care of grandparents or extended family -
www.mirabelfoundation.org.au
EARLY CHILDHOOD
Children’ Centres in South Australia - www.childrenscentres.sa.gov.au/pages/ecconnections
Early Childhood Australia - is the peak national, non government organisation acting in the interests
of young children 0-8 yrs. It is a leading promoter of best practice and publishes the Australian
Journal of Early Childhood, Every Child Magazine and the Everyday Learning Series -
www.earlychildhoodaustralia.org.au
Zero to Three - has fact sheets and a wealth of information on infant and toddler development for
parents, child care providers and service providers - www.zerotothree.org
Australian Childhood Foundation - provides the ‘Every Child is Important’ booklet in 16 different
languages - www.childhood.org.au
Centres of Excellence for Children’s Wellbeing - has an early childhood encyclopaedia for service
providers, planners and policy makers - www.excellence-earlychildhood.ca/encyclopedia
SPECIAL NEEDS
Healthy Start - is an Australia wide strategy to support parents of children with learning disabilities
and promotes a healthy start to life for young children - www.healthystart.net.au
Raising Children - has a section on Children with a Disability. Information sheets include your
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PARENTING & CHILDREN’S BEHAVIOUR GROUPS - TERM 4 2007 - SOUTH METRO
child’s disability and your feelings, talking about your child’s disability, dealing with the reactions of
others, helping siblings of a child with a disability, video clips of parenting, and much more -
www.raisingchildren.net.au/disabilities
Signposts Statewide - is a Victorian, building better children’s behaviour program. It assists families
to prevent and manage difficult behaviour of children 3-15 yrs with developmental delay or
disability - http://www.parentingrc.org.au/vp/programs/programview.php?id=16&page=overview
TEENS
ABCD Parenting Young Adolescent Program has fact sheets for parents and service providers on
communication, problem solving, decision making & drug & alcohol use - www.abcdparenting.org
Headroom has fact sheets and ideas about positive mental health and adolescence, for service
providers, pre teens, adolescents and their families. Topics include adolescence, resilience,
temperament, emotional development and parenting practices - www.headroom.net.au
Reach Out is for young people and covers a range of issues including mental health, family matters
and drugs and alcohol - www.reachout.com.au
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