Parent Education, Family Counselling and Parent Support

The aim of the Parent Support Services is two-fold:

1. To provide support in a family-centered way to help you to grow confidence and skill in your parenting abilities
2. To enhance your ability to interact with your child in ways that lead to positive social and emotional wellness for the entire family.

Services offered:

Parent Support – to reduce stress with healthy problem solving skills and learn the effect of ACEs in early childhood

Family Counselling – Relationship challenges, co-parenting, divorce and separation, grief, postpartum blues, and family of origin challenges. An Experiential Counselling Model is used with children.

Parent Education Workshops – Group learning with activities for skill-building to improve family life at home. 

Benefits to the child:

• A healthier environment to grow and develop within
• A less chaotic and stressful environment for the child
• Positive role modeling can support the child’s strengths to be developed and expressed
• Bonding in emotionally secure relationships

Benefits to the parent:

These services will show parents how to use positive parenting techniques such as:

• Learning how to protect and prepare the child to survive and thrive in today’s society
• Knowing how to support their child’s cognitive, social, and emotional development
• Using solution-focused problem solving skills to improve relationships
• Increasing good co-parenting skills to reduce overall stress
• Encouraging optimal self-care and its importance for sustaining you and your child’s bond

Benefits to the community:

• Intervention is likely to be more cost effective when it is provided earlier in life
• A robust Child Development Programme will impact future national planning for early childhood

School readiness in early childhood lessens the demand for support services