Here is the list of the planned educator program modules. These may change as we work through them.
- Children’s emotional, physical and cognitive responses to parental separation (information, supports [for the child and parent] and strategies)
- Building children’s understanding of deployment (information, strategies, stories, the benefits of varied parent communication)
- Supporting the non-deployed parent with social responses to deployment (the importance of supports, maintaining relationships, resources for self-soothing, social responses)
- Supporting family transitions and protective factors
- Fostering the language of deployment to improve children’s understanding
- Developing children’s narratives and creating digital narratives (information, strategies to support children’s understanding)
- Strategies, benefits and barriers for partnering with military families
- Working from a strengths-based perspective (information, strategies and supports for children and families)
- Links to the community (information and strategies around rituals, referral and advocacy)
- Listening to children’s voices in military families
Here is the list of the planned parent program modules. These may change as we work through them.
- Children’s emotional, physical and cognitive responses to parental separation (information, supports and strategies)
- Building children’s understanding of deployment (information, strategies and stories that assist, the benefits of varied family communication)
- Supporting the mental health of the non-deployed parent (information, the importance of supports, maintaining relationships, and resources for self-soothing)
- Supporting and managing transitions and children’s social responses (information, strategies, protective factors, narratives)
- Fostering the language and narrative of deployment and relocations (to build and support their understanding)
- Co-parenting from different continents, sharing and not sharing (information, strategies and supports)
- Discovering family and individual strengths and staying connected (information, strategies and supports)
- When a parent comes back injured (this is only for families where this is relevant)(information, strategies and supports)
- When a parent comes back with mental health conditions and/or moral injury (this is only for families where this is relevant)(information, strategies and supports)
- When a parent doesn’t come home at all (this is only for families where this is relevant)(information, strategies and supports)
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- Song competition information
- give us ideas for the programs and resources (we would love to hear from parents, educators and family workers)
Explore other resources:
- educator’s and family worker resources
- parent’s resources
- Auslan Keyword Signing resources (for those with disability or language delays, or those wanting to learn Auslan Keyword Signing)
- academic and policymaker resources
New resources being created:
- eBooks, digital interactives and activity books list and age groups
- eBooks (a peek inside)
- a makeover of our old eBooks (a peek inside)
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