Parenting

Resourcing parents aims to assist parents to easily access information about parenting tips and parenting education and early learning events. Parenting Tips are available in over 40 languages, and can be downloaded 24 hours a day. For a listing of parenting courses being offered near you, please go to the Resourcing Parents website.

Parenting Tip topics:

• Children’s Development
• Children health
• Feeding & Nutrition
• Mental Health
• Parenting
• Parent Education
• Safety/ Child Protection
• Teenagers

Phone: 9736 9852
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Provides free, reliable, up-to-date and independent information to help families grow and thrive together. Raising Children is funded by the Australian Government.

The site provides tips and tricks for you to try, content is easy to find and easy to digest. Discover the answers to hundreds of parenting questions, where and when you need them.

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Anglicare's qualified counsellors and educators provide a range of parenting and life skills education programs as well as counselling for individuals, couples and families.

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Ph: 9798 1400

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Catholic Care has professional and compassionate teams for counselling, education, emotional support and practical strategies. Our mission is to help individuals, couples and families through life's testing times.

Ph: 13 18 19

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Drummoyne Community Centre runs a range of workshops and activities to support families and parents.  

Ph: 9719 8102

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The Infants’ Home runs a series of twelve 6-8 week parent education and support programs annually to provide parents and carers with knowledge as well as social, emotional and communication tools to improve their parenting skills.

Courses are often run in collaboration with external expert agencies. The courses can help families be more sensitive to their child’s emotions, better understand their needs, and to be calm and more purposeful in their play and interactions with their child.

Ph: 9799 4844

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A free service for families in stress or in crisis, with children under the age of twelve, living in the council areas of Ashfi­eld, Burwood, City of Canada Bay and Strathfi­eld.

Family Support can Off­er:

Advocacy and referral, where families may be having problems dealing with other agencies.

Group activities. These may be courses to develop skills—in parenting, self-esteem, communication, relationships, play skills for parents and children, money management and household management, among others .

Self-help groups where people share experiences with other in similar situations. This may be helpful where people are experiencing the effects of, for instance—grief, sexual assault or domestic violence.

Specialist Mandarin, Arabic and Farsi speaking workers available.

Activities that help family members to get to know other people, to decrease social isolation and to build supportive networks within communities.

Outreach services available in some suburbs.

Ph: 9744 1866

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Weldon's Family Support Service works with families across the Inner West of Sydney to build family capacity and enhance the well-being of families and children through the provision of a range of integrated support services focused on delivering positive outcomes for families.

The Summer Hill Service is funded to support and provide intervention to families in response to their unique circumstances and needs.  The service aims to support family functioning, increase the use of positive parenting practices, strengthen the relationship between parents and children, improve knowledge about local services and expand families’ supportive social networks.

To make an appointment to attend our office or schedule a home visit our family support worker can be contacted on:
Ph: (02) 9797 8676 or 0433 069 974
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Summer Hill Community Centre, 131 Smith Street, Summer Hill, NSW 2130

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Metro Assist provides a number of Early Intervention / Family Support Services that are family focused and child centred. We support the wellbeing of children by helping to build strong parenting skills and stronger families.

The programs support parents and carers to be confident and connected to their community, so they can support their children’s developmental needs.

Ph: 9798 1700

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