MAKE A STAND
Join your community in the annual Make a Stand Against Abuse Walk.
Thursday, 28 November, 2024
11.00am – 1.00pm at Macquarie Park
Parenting Programs
Term 4 programs are now closed.
The Northern Centre offers a range of parenting groups to provide parents and carers with effective activities, information and coaching to assist them to build positive parenting skills.
Our groups are usually held during school terms and are listed below. Our Targeted Early Intervention (TEI) program funding allows us to deliver many of our programs at no cost. We also offer childcare for the duration of some programs. Please notify us at the time of booking program if you need this service.
Circle of Security
Circle of Security is a highly successful 8 week evidenced based program for parents of 0-5 year olds that focusses on how you can strengthen your relationship with your child through understanding and responding to their needs and behaviours.
Circle of Security is a relationship based, early intervention program designed to enhance attachment security between parents and children. Decades of university-based research have confirmed that secure children exhibit increased empathy, greater self-esteem, better relationships with parents and peers, enhanced school readiness, and an increased capacity to handle emotions more effectively when compared with children who are not secure. For further information, see www.circleofsecurity.net.
When: Wednesdays: 8 May to 26 June
Time: 6:45pm to 8:45pm
Where: Via Zoom (link will be provided prior to sessions)
Circle of Security – Mandarin
This program supports parents to be good enough caregivers, both physically and emotionally. Find out how your relationship with your child can help them to become happier and more confident.
This Circle of Security Parenting Group will be delivered over 5 consecutive days in July with a follow up call by the facilitator. Resources and handouts are in Mandarin and provide examples of parent experiences that everyone can relate to. For further information, see www.circleofsecurity.net.
家長會:
– 更體會子女的需要
– 通過適當的溝通改善兒童的行為
– 給父母在教育子女上增加選擇
– 與子女建立及加強良好關係
– 使孩子在愛中成長
When: 15 to 19 July 2024
Time: 10:00am to 12:00pm
Where: The Northern Centre – Level 3, 3-5 Anthony Road, West Ryde
Registrations are essential. Book here.
Engaging Adolescents
Over 3 sessions, parents/carers will be provided with practical tips to prepare for tough conversations with young people. It teaches strategies to maintain open communication, build a relationship with your teenager and foster safe independence. Parents/carers will learn to better understand adolescents and appreciate what are reasonable expectations to hold. The program works towards giving parents/ carers a renewed sense of confidence about the role they can play in their teenagers’ lives, without conversations morphing into arguments.
Dates: Tuesdays: 13, 20 and 27 August
Time: 10:00am to 12:00pm
Where: Level 3, 3-5 Anthony Road, West Ryde
Tuning in to Kids (Korean)
Focuses on the emotional connection between parents and their 4 – 10 year old child. Aims to teach parents emotion coaching skills, to help their child understand and manage their emotions, as well as improving communication and parent-child relationship. Help develop your child’s social skills and manage frustrations and conflict, thus increasing positive behaviours.
Teach your child to understand and regulate their emotions.
- Teach your child the skills of ‘emotional intelligence’ – the ability to understand and control emotions.
- Help your child communicate how they’re feeling and to then move to problem solving.
- Explore family parenting styles and how emotions, including conflict, are handled within the family.
- Learn new ways to handle emotions including those of their children, which leads to improved family relationships.
When: Thursdays: 23 May to 27 June
Time: 10:00am to 12:00pm (limited childcare available upon request)
Where: Level 3, 3-5 Anthony Road, West Ryde
123 Magic and Emotion Coaching (English)
Developed by Dr. Thomas Phelan, a registered clinical psychologist and internationally renowned expert of child discipline and Attention Deficit Disorder, this program aims to teach parents with children 2-12 years how to deal with their child’s difficult behaviour by using an easy to learn and easy to use signalling system for managing difficult behaviour. This program runs over 3 weekly sessions of 2 hours.
When: Tuesdays: 5 to 19 November
Time: 10:00am to 12:00pm (limited childcare available upon request)
Where: Level 3, 3-5 Anthony Road, West Ryde
