Links
Parenting SA
Government of South Australia
Parenting SA is an initiative of the Government of South Australia to promote the value of parents and the important role of parenting. The Parenting SA website provides a directory of parent groups, information on grants and a range of factsheets that cover different stages of child development.
Visit the Parenting SA website
Child & Youth Health
Child and Youth Health is a service that provides support to parents, families and children with additional needs; and health services for infants, children and young people. The Child and Youth Health website contains practical heath information on different stages of life, from pregnancy to early childhood through to young adulthood.
Visit the Child and Youth Health website
Raising Children Network
On the Raising Children website, parents will find reliable, scientifically validated information and resources to support them in the day-to-day work of raising children, and looking after their own needs. There are practical illustrated guides, an online community where parents can talk to parents and even a Karaoke, just for baby.
Visit the Raising Children website
Gateway Services
Government of Tasmania: Department of Health and Human Services
The Gateway Services are the single entry point to all family and disability services in each Area of the State - South East, South West, North and North West of Tasmania. This section of the Department of Health and Human Services website provides factsheets about Gateway services and a memorandum of understanding for child Protection and Gateway Services.
Visit the Gateway Services website
Child Health and Parenting Services
Government of Tasmania: Department of Health and Human Services
Child Health & Parenting Service is a free community-based health service for children and their families. This section of the Department of Health and Human Services website provides contact details for a range of child health and parenting centres as well as a brochure for specialist programs and services.
Visit the Child Health and Parenting Services website
Child Health Centres
Government of Tasmania: Department of Health and Human Services
Child Health and Parenting Services are available through more than 80 Child Health Centres around Tasmania that provide counseling, support and child development assessments. These centres also offer women screening for postnatal depression and provide counselling, support and referral. This section of the Department of Health and Human Services website provides contact details and location maps for each centre, as well as links to related services.
Visit the Child Health Centres website
Early Years
Government of Tasmania: Department of Education
Early years programs are designed to nurture and stimulate young children’s learning, support their families and engage communities. This section of the Department of Education website provides parents with departmental publications on child development in the early years and outlines government approach to learning during the early years.
Visit the Department of Education website
Families Australia
Families Australia is an independent not-for-profit organisation dedicated to the needs and interests of families. The Families Australia website offers a range of publications and articles on family-related issues as well as the latest information on upcoming events for National Families Week in 2011.
Visit the Families Australia website
Baptcare
Baptcare provides Gateway services in the North and South-West regions of Tasmania.
Gateway is an intake and assessment service that provides a clear point of contact for children, young people, their families and people with a disability, seeking Family Support Services (FSS).
The Family Services section of the Baptcare website profiles the services and related programs on offer.
Visit the Baptcare website
Child Protection Services
Government of Tasmania: Department of Health and Human Services
The role of Child Protection Services is to protect children and young people who are at risk of abuse or neglect. This section of the Department of Health and Human Services website provides contact details for Child Protection Services in each state and describes how professionals and members of the public can make a notification.
Visit the Child Protection Services website
Grandparents Raising Grandchildren
Government of Tasmania: Department of Health and Human Services
This section of the Department of Health and Human Services website provides links to organisations, groups and agencies in Tasmania, Australia and internationally that offer advice to grandparents and other relatives who care for children.
Visit the Grandparents Raising Grandchildren website
Factsheets and resources
Child Protection Services resources
Government of Tasmania: Department of Health and Human Services
This section of the Department of Health and Human Services website provides downloadable information about family group conferences, carers, children and Child Protection Services.
Visit the Child Protection Services Resources website
The Early Childhood Learning Resources Project
Government of Australia: Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations
The Early Childhood Learning Resources Project was developed to assist parents to introduce and develop early literacy and numeracy learning of their young children. This section of the Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations website provides downloadable publications and learning tools as well as online videos that show early learning techniques.
Visit the Early Childhood Learning Resources Project website
Children with special or additional needs
Government of Tasmania: Department of Education
This section of the Department of Education website provides a guide to milestones in early development, and profiles the services and related programs available to children and families. There is also a link to The Early Childhood Intervention Service.
Visit the Department of Education Special Needs website
KidsMatter
KidsMatter Early Childhood is a national mental health promotion, prevention and early intervention initiative specifically developed for early childhood services. The KidsMatter website outlines the areas of focus of the initiative and provides downloadable publications from related early childhood organisations. Visitors can also subscribe to and download the KidsMatter eNewsletter.
Visit the KidsMatter website
Relationships Australia Tasmania
Relationships Australia provides counselling to individuals, couples and families to enhance, maintain or where necessary, manage changes in their relationships. The Tasmania section of the Relationships Australia website describes the relationship support services, counselling and courses available and provides contact details for Tasmanian offices.
Visit the Relationships Australia website
The Family Action Centre
Located at the University of Newcastle, NSW, The Family Action Centre is a multidisciplinary Centre that promotes the wellbeing of children from birth to eight years of age by engaging fathers and father figures in the lives of children. This section of the University of Newcastle website offers a range of products to help new and experienced fathers understand the different stages of their child’s development.
Visit the Family Action Centre website
Integrated Family Support Service
Mission Australia
The Integrated Family Support Service offers families an outreached-based service that aims to strengthen relationships, develop skills and facilitate referrals to appropriate services. This section of the Mission Australia website outlines how the Integrated Family Support Service can help vulnerable children and families, and describes the process for accessing the service.
Visit the Mission Australia website
Anglicare Tasmania
Anglicare is a Christian agency that is part of the Anglican Church. It helps individuals, families and communities in need by providing a selection of social services and support throughout Tasmania. Services include accommodation, counselling, employment, services for the disabled and financial help. The Anglicare website profiles services by subject and location, and the research section provides downloadable publications and campaign materials.
Visit the Anglicare Tasmania website
Centacare Tasmania
Centacare provides families with a suite of social services as part of the core mission of the Catholic Church. Services include specialised and professional support, counselling, accommodation, emergency, advocacy, education and training services throughout Tasmania. The Centacare website overviews programs and courses by subject and location, and details the specialised services for women, men and children.
Visit the Centacare Tasmania website
Good Beginnings
Good Beginnings supports parents through community-supported early intervention programs for children, their families, and the communities in which they live. Programs include Child Focused Community Development, Universal Supported Groups, Volunteer Family Support, Targeted Play Groups and Intensive Family Support. The website also contains parent support fact sheets on post natal depression and travelling with children, as well as links to programs all around Australia.
Visit the Good Beginnings website
Uniting Care
UnitingCare Family Services works with many of the Uniting Churches and organisations in its local regions to offer support to parents of young children through running the Pregnancy and Young Parents Support (PYPS) and Parenting Support programs, a free lending library and referral point through the Family Resource Centre, Early Childhood Play teaching, and problem solving utilising a mediation approach.
Visit the Uniting Care website
Family Based Care
Family Based Care North and Family Based Care North-West provide services that are specifically designed to meet some of the needs of people with disabilities (regardless of age), people who have dementia, people with mental health issues, people from a non-English speaking background and Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islanders and their families or primary carers.
Visit the Family Based Care- North website
Visit the Family Based Care- North West website
Holyoake
Holyoake is a non-profit organisation that offers a range of group or individual counselling programs in a supportive environment for people affected by their own or another’s addictive behaviour or substance misuse, such as the ‘Relationships in Focus’ program.
Visit the Holyoake website
Mission Australia: Pathways to strong families and happy healthy children
Mission Australia offers assistances to young children and their families so they have every opportunity to succeed. Mission Australia offers strategies for helping families and communities to both become stronger and be able to nurture and support their children, and provides a range of services along the continuum of care, in the form of prevention and early intervention, counselling, case management, and residential programs.
Visit the Mission Australia: Pathways to strong families and happy healthy children website
Parents Wisdom: Assisting parents, parental advice and support
Parents Wisdom began about three years ago following its founder suffering Post Natal Depression (PND). During her recovery she vowed that something good would come from that journey. It provides support for parents, carers and grandparents (raising grandchildren).
Parents Wisdom exists to support families, it was built by parents for parents. It offers a range of affordable workshops for all audience types.
Visit the Parents Wisdom website
Newpin
Newpin (New Parent and Infant Network) is an intensive child protection and parent education program that works therapeutically with families under stress to break the cycle of destructive family behaviour and enhance parent-child relationships.
