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  • 1: Building strengths, & resilience; staying connected
  • 2: Listening to children’s voices
  • 3: Fostering children's language about parents working away
  • 4: Strategies, benefits and barriers to partner with families
  • 5: Building children’s understanding; supporting family communication
  • 6: Developing children’s narratives; creating digital narratives
  • 7: Supporting household transitions; resilience; protective factors
  • 8: Emotional, physical and cognitive responses to parents working away (work rosters)
  • 9: Children's social responses to parents working away (work rosters)
  • 10: Links to the community
  • 11: Child and family trauma
  • 12: And so, things have been a bit different: Ben's story
  • 13: In Sickness and in Health: Sam's Story
  • 14: Nathan's story: Oh, by the way, my Mum has PTS
  • 15: Transitioning from service life; changing careers
  • 16. Moral Injuries (under construction)
  • 17. Relocation (under construction)
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  4. 4: Strategies, benefits and barriers to partner with families
  • 4: Strategies, benefits and barriers to partner with families

    4: Strategies, benefits and barriers to partner with families

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    • Benefits to partnering with families Benefits to partnering with families
    • Barriers to partnering with families Barriers to partnering with families
    • Strategies to partnering with families Strategies to partnering with families

    • Educator resources
    • Educator resource: Effective partnerships with families who have a parent who works away (pp.7-10) Educator resource: Effective partnerships with families who have a parent who works away (pp.7-10)
      Please scroll down to pages 7-10
    • Educators using their strengths, skills and time to support defence families Educators using their strengths, skills and time to support defence families

      This journal article explores the way busy educators unrecognised strengths, skills and time were appreciated by defence families.

    • Family centred approaches Family centred approaches

      A family-centered approach is a way of working in partnership with families to help them make their own decisions.

    • Communicating with parents Communicating with parents

      When professionals and parents share knowledge and experience, it’s good for children’s well-being and development.

    • Involving parents in school Involving parents in school
      Parental involvement in school is good for parents, teachers and children. Schools can encourage parental involvement by treating parents as partners and sharing information.
    • Parent partnerships - does compliance influence your practice? Parent partnerships - does compliance influence your practice?

      Not all families are seeking advice, support or education from early childhood educators. What happens to partnership with families when we view early childhood relationships through different lenses?

    • Teaching activities in Children's Resources

      To accompany this module, please use the following resources from Children's Resources:

      1. What do you do when you miss your parents? Rachael's story eBook and accompanying resources, including a downloadable, printable eBook, audio and video read-along versions, extension teaching activities, and printable teaching materials

      2. D is for Duff activity book where educators help the children make the book using photos the child has brought in, or drawings. If the child is not from a Navy family, you might like to work with the family to create an Air Force or Army version of this book and share it with us at ecdefenceprograms@une.edu.au

    • Resources for parents and educators

      There is some good research-based information in these online articles. There will also be many tips that are relevant for educators.
    • How to talk to your child's teacher when there is a problem How to talk to your child's teacher when there is a problem
    • Conversation starters with teachers (for primary school aged children) Conversation starters with teachers (for primary school aged children)

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    • I found a small error (e.g. link that won't work, typo, grammar, spelling, terminology I found a small error (e.g. link that won't work, typo, grammar, spelling, terminology
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