Support Worker Resources

Module 1: Working with children's strengths and interests (ideas to help child explore their strengths and build resilience) 

Module 2: Hearing and valuing children's opinions (ideas and resources to help children's ideas be heard and understood)

Module 3: Parental self-care and resilience (ideas for strengthening protective factors and resilience in parents, families and community)

Module 4: Parenting when a parent works away (ideas to help support parenting when a parent is working away) 

Module 5: Finding the middle ground (ideas to support positive conversations with children about parental absence from home)  

Module 6: Parental absence and children's understanding (ideas to strengthen children's understanding when parents work away)  

Module 7: Creating the family narrative (resources and ideas to help children develop and understand their family story)

Module 8: Change affects all family members (ideas and resources to help support children's understanding of family life changes)

Module 9: Children's responses to family changes (ideas and resources to help children come to terms with change before and while a parent works away)

Module 10: Changes in children's social behaviours (ideas and resoursces to help children, and their parent, manage their social responses the absence of a parent)

Module 11: Help is at hand (links and resources to help families connect with support services in their community)

Module 12: Changes in parental relationships (ideas to help families cope with changing parental relationships)

Module 13: Imacts of unexpected or unwanted change (ideas and resources to help support families through impacts of change)

Module 14: In harm's way (ideas and resources to help support families affected by violence, abuse and neglect)

Module 15: Coping with physical parental change (ideas and resources for supporting families living with parental injury and medical change)

Module 16: Parental mental health changes (ideas and resources to help support families living with parental changes in mental health conditions)

Module 17: The death of a parent (ideas and resources to help children and parents cope when a parent dies)

Module 18: Ben's Story - Dad's service-related injury (a downloadable read-along book with resources)

Module 19: Sam's Story - Mum's service-related injury (a downloadable read-along book with resources)

Module 20: Nathan's Story - Mum's service-related mental health condition (a downloadable read-along book with resources)

Module 21: Liam's Story - Dad's medals (a video read-along story to help children understand the importance of a parent's medals on ANZAC Day)