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1: Using a strengths-based approach; building empathy
2: Listening to children’s voices
3: Care; resilience; protective factors
4: Parenting from different states/continents; sharing
5: Fostering children's language about parents working away
6: Building children’s understanding of parents work; communication
7: Developing children’s narratives, creating digital narratives
8: Supporting family household transitions
9: Emotional, physical and cognitive responses to parents working away (work rosters)
10: Social responses to parents working away (work rosters)
11: Links to the community
12: Relationship breakdown
13: Addictions; grief; loss; change
14: Abuse (domestic voilence, child abuse, neglect)
15: Service related injuries or medical conditions
16: Service related mental health conditions and moral injury
Module 17: When a parent dies
18: Child and family trauma
19: And so, things have been a bit different: Ben's story
20: In Sickness and in Health: Sam's Story
21: Oh, by the way, my Mum has PTS: Nathan's Story
22: Liam's story: So why do I wear Dad's medals?
23: Transitioning from service life; changing careers
24. Moral Injury (under construction)
25. Relocation (under construction)
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21: Oh, by the way, my Mum has PTS: Nathan's Story
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Terminology note: deployment, absence from home, training and workups
What is a strengths-based approach?
Why do we need to identify strengths and use a strengths-based approach?
Characteristics of strong families
Practical ways to work with children's strengths
Understanding risk and resilience in defence families
Resilience in defence families
Using narrative to build tolerance, empathy and respect in our children? Here are five practical tips for educators to create a better world one child at a time.
Thinking and learning strengths in children with autism spectrum disorder (3-8 years)
Embracing your autistic child's strengths
Praise, encouragement and rewards (1-18 years)
Positive attention and your child (1-11 years)
Encouraging positive behaviour (1-8 years)
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Why should we listen to children's voices?
How do we listen to children's voices using the creative arts?
How to listen to children through interests and chats
A framework for listening to children's voices
Empowering children through the creative arts: Is it possible to access the voice of 2-5 year olds?
Non-verbal communication (2-8 years)
Dress-up games (3-6 years)
Puppet play: How it helps child development (2-8 years)
Puppet play and emotions (3-6 years)
Making simple puppets (Birth - 8 years)
Imagining, creating and play (toddlers)
Imagining, creating and play (preschoolers)
Imagining, creating and play (5-8 years)
Active listening with Pre-Teens (8-12 years) and Teens (13-19 years)
Listening to and negotiating with Pre-Teens (8-12 years) and Teens (13-19 years) (copy)
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Domains of self-care for parents
Self-care pactical activities
Fostering protective factors in families
Diagram: Protective factors in families
Diagram: Protective factors in families and the community
Plugging into protective factors in defence families
Tips for building resilience
Building resilience in children
Resilience Practice Framework
What is resilience?
How to build resilience
Resilient Defence Families
Insight into the experiences of defence families and their children
What to avoid: The effects of toxic stress
Building adult capabilities to improve outcomes for children
What to avoid: The effects of toxic stress on development
Effective communication with parents
Reading (9 mins): Tips for building resilience
Reading (3 mins): Building resilience in children
Reading (5 mins): Changing routines: Autistic children and teenagers (3-18 years)
Group Music Making can Develop Resilience
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The challenges of parenting in military families
Parenting agreements (before parents leave to work away)
Items for parents to discuss template
Tips for communicating when a parent is away
Sharing and not sharing
Resilient Families Magazine
Benefits and Challenges of Social Media
10 Tips when a parent works away
Long distance communication with your children
Parenting when your partner works away
Challenges of Families with a Parent Working Away from Home Base
Dealing with life when your spouse works away
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Establishing a shared language with parents
Increasing understanding and vocabulary
Challenging conversations
Rituals
Songs, rhymes and finger-plays
Language development (Birth to 8 years)
Language learning (1-2 years)
Language learning (2-3 years)
Language learning (3-4 years)
Language learning (5-8 years)
Language delay (1-8 years)
Language development in autistic children (Birth-8 years)
Discussing tough topics with children (3-8 years)
Talking about death with children (3-8 years)
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First Responder families: Work and family life
Activities to do with children before their parents go away
Activities to do during the parent's absence
Activities to do with children leading up to the reunion and during reintegration
Article: Support with family narratives
Article: How to support children when a parent works away
Household chores for children: Ages 2-18
Family rules: 3-18 years
Creative learning through the arts: 1-3 years
Creative learning through the arts: 3-5 years
Natural play resources for creativity: Birth-8 years
Creative activities for preschoolers: 3-5 years
Outdoor play: Birth-8 years
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The power of narratives
What are family narratives and what do they look like?
Supporting family narratives before the parent goes away
Supporting family narratives when the parent is away
How to support children whose parent works away for long periods
Effective communication with parents
Communicating well with babies and children (Birth to 12 years)
Building positive family relationships
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Introduction: Managing household transitions
Understanding how change affects adults and children
Building children's understanding
Using mindmaps to support children with change
Links between protective factors, resilience, well-being and learning
Sharing information with educators and others
Support for partners and children with special needs (Defence Member and Family Support DMFS, formerly DCO)
Article: Executive functioning is much harder for children from chaotic households
Behaviour management
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Children's possible physical, emotional and cognitive responses to parents working away
Before a parent leaves to work away from home
Template table for parents to use
During the parent's absence
Reunions
Reintegration
Article: Challenges during reintegration in defence families
Video: Reunions in defence families
Video: Airport reunions in defence families
Article: Helping children manage emotions
Tracing hands activity
Puppet play and emotions: 3-6 years
Emotions and play: Babies
Emotions and play: Toddlers
Emotions and play with 3-5-year-olds
‘It’s not fair!’ Children and teenagers grumble and complain for a reason, here’s how to handle it
Learning about emotions activity
Toddler tantrums
Self regulation (self control): 1-6 years
Emotional development in autistic children
Encouraging good behaviour: 1-8 years
Handling sibling fights: 2-8 years
You can't be happy all the time
Learning about emotions 'Inside Out' movie: Ages 9+
Separation anxiety: Babies to 8 years
School-age and pre-teen sleep: What to expect
Sleep problems and how to address them: Age 3-18
Sleep concerns, questions and answers: Babies and Toddlers
Dots with Feelings
Resources about social and emotional regulation using Bluey cartoons
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Children's emotional, physical and cognitive responses to parents' shift work and on-call duties
Children's Common Social Responses to Parents Working Away
How to Support Children's Social Responses (and their families)
Challenges for at-home parents, feelings of guilt, social media supports
Diagram showing potential effects of grief and loss during long parental absences
Clinginess in children - how to support them
Services and support: An overview
Finding a babysitter for your family
Making new friends in a new area
eBook: Supporting young children through change and everyday transitions
Links to DCO childcare options
Resources about social and emotional regulation using Bluey cartoons
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Referral to community groups and supports
Social media supports
Advocacy
Rituals
Using a family centred approach to support children
Support services for Indigenous families
Supporting minority groups in your community (same-sex and rainbow families)
Help and support for single parents
13YARN
Community connections for children (5-8 years)
Parenting and support services
Strong families - connected to the community
Preventing child-sexual abuse in families and communities
Recommended children's book: What will I see on Anzac Day?
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Planning short and long term support strategies
What happens during a relationship breakdown (separation and divorce)?
Transitions
Risk and protective factors, pain, guilt and re-partnering
Moving forward
Relationship breakdown factsheet from Defence Member and Family Support (DMFS, formerly DCO)
You've lost that loving feeling (Defence Families Australia blog)
Breakdown of relationship support group (DEFGLIS)
Self-care practical activities
Grief, loss and change
Fostering children's understanding
Providing children with opportunities to safely practice their emotions
Diagram: Protective factors in families and the community
Children's booklets about worry, sadness, grief and loss
Tapping into a family's protective factors
Template for identifying your family's protective factors (support base)
Support services
Service pamphlets and booklets to download or order
Parent resource: How to protect children's mental health during a separation
Talking to children about tough topics (2-8 years)
Pictorial article: Coping with traumatic news
You can't be happy all the time
Conflict management for parents
Non-verbal communication matters
Healthy partner and parent relationships
Building positive family relationships
Video: How separation and divorce can impact children and parents
Parenting after separation or divorce
Helping children adjust after separation and divorce
Helping chidlren adjust to two homes
Single parents and positive single parenting
Divorce and the law
Video: Single parenting
Co-parenting - getting the right balance
Coparenting with your ex - Military Life (US based)
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Addictions
Health programs for alcohol, tobacco and drugs (Defence Member and Family Support DMFS, formerly DCO)
Grief, loss and change
Fostering children's understanding
Providing children with opportunities to safely practice their emotions
Children's booklets about worry, sadness, grief and loss
Tapping into a family's protective factors
Service pamphlets and booklets to download or order
Support services
Template for identifying your family's protective factors (support base)
Parent's alcohol and drug use
Talking to children about tough topics (2-8 years)
You can't be happy all the time
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Abuse in families, including domestic violence
Parent helplines and hotlines
Links to community supports for partner abuse
Domestic family violence
Child maltreatment (including abuse and neglect)
Helplines and services for child sexual abuse
Child sexual abuse - general information
When you feel you might hurt your child
Statistics of child sexual abuse
Grooming
Disclosure
Defence Family and Domestic Violence Strategy (Defence Member and Family Support: DMCV formerly DCO)
Domestic violence (Defence Families Australia)
Links to defence supports
Military Wifelife Podcast Episode 51 about domestic violence
The consequences and programs
Personal boundaries activity for 3-15 year olds
Preventing voilence: Teaching children respect for women
Reasons why victim survivors don't report
Recognising financial abuse and what to do about it
Helping someone out of an abusive relationship
Reporting child abuse and neglect in different states and territories
Preventing child sexual abuse in our communities
Child sexual abuse: What is it and what to do (Birth to 18 years)
Signs of a perpertrator
What to do if a child is abused?
Sexual abuse: Talking to children
Supporting a child who has been abused
Signs of grooming
Signs of sexual abuse in children and teenagers
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Coping with the initial news
Changes to one's identity
Explaining injuries to children
Providing children with opportunities to safely practice their emotions
Establishing new family routies
Fostering children's understanding
Practical activities and supports
Injured or ill ADF members (Defence Members and Family Support: DMFS, formerly DCO)
Personnel experiencing trauma
Tapping into a family's protective factors
Diagram: Protective factors in families and the community
Template for identifying your family's protective factors (support base)
Support services, and a story from a Legatee involved with Legacy
Service pamphlets and booklets to download or order
Children's booklets about worry, sadness, grief and loss
Animation: Understanding PTS and how it can be passed on to family members
Personal story: How my life has been impacted by my Dad's service injuries
Personal story: How a child coped with her father's severe war injuries at different stages of her life
Coping with traumatic news - an illustrated guide
Parenting with a physical disability
Looking after yourself
Talking to children about tough topics (2-8 years)
Conflict management for parents
You can't be happy all the time
Dots with Feelings
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Spotting the changes and seeking support
Communication in a relationship
Encouraging a loved one to get help (Defence Member and Family Support: DMFS, formerly DCO)
Personnel experiencing trauma
Recognising and understanding moral injury
Explaining mental health issues to children
Children's booklets about worry, sadness, grief and loss
Providing children with opportunities to safely practice their emotions
Fostering children's understanding
Tapping into a family's protective factors
Diagram: Protective factors in families and the community
Template for identifying your family's protective factors (support base)
Support services, and stories from those involved with Legacy
Service pamphlets and booklets to download or order
Animation: Understanding PTS and how it can be passed on to family members
Personal story: How untreated service-related mental health conditions can affect relationships between parents
Personal story: How untreated service-related mental health problems can affect parenting
Personal story: How untreated PTSD can affect children differently
Looking after yourself
Abuse, Violence, Trauma and Grief (Birth to 18 years)
Conflict management for parents
Talking to children about tough topics (2-8 years)
How preschoolers can learn to communicate signs of stress
Good mental health for children (3-8 years)
How to talk to young children about mental health
Talking about mental illness with your child
Talking about parental mental health issues with a primary school aged child
UK Video: Primary school aged animation video to start conversations about mental health
Canadian video: You are not your thoughts
Pictorial article: Coping with traumatic news
Suicide prevention resources
You can't be happy all the time
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Dealing with the news and the initial stage
Supporting families communication with children's educators and others
Links to services and resources
Resilient Families Magazine
Stories from those involved with Legacy
When somebody dies (3-8 years)
Talking to children about tough topics (2-8 years)
Pictorial article: Coping with traumatic news
You can't be happy all the time
Dots with Feelings
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Video: What is trauma? (5 minutes)
How children and families experience trauma
Childhood trauma and the brain (5 minutes)
Transfer of trauma within families
Signs of trauma in young children
Trauma and the nervous system (9 minutes)
Book review: A useful book about the impacts of trauma
When does mental distress become a mental illness?
More about PTSD and children's resources
The psychology of PTSD (5 minutes)
12 signs you might be suffering from PTSD (2 minutes)
12 signs of complex PTSD (8 minutes)
Trauma support for children
Triggers - how they work and how to reduce their effects (7 minutes)
How to overcome trauma (5 minutes)
Hypervigilance and how to overcome it (5 minutes)
How the brain adapts to adversity (8 minutes)
Support services and community organisatons
Animation: Getting yourself right before you can support others (4 minutes)
The Basics: Trauma informed principles and practices (17 minutes)
Trauma informed care for social workers (22 minutes)
Recognising the symptoms of trauma (3 minutes)
Explainer animation using a hand model about amygdala for children (2 minutes)
Animation: Helping children see the positives in their lives (4 minutes)
The Resilience Project
Free resources: Supporting children through natural disasters and climate emergencies
The link between poor mental health, depression, anxiety and diet
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Ben's story: And so things have been a bit different (read-along printable version)
Link to the bookshop
Audio read-along version of Ben's story: And so things have been a bit different (read-along with page-turn notification)
Video read-along version of 'And so things have been a bit different'
Learn to say 'hello' in Sinhala (aubowan)
Learn to say 'see you later in Sinhala (gihilla ennaung)
Make time for music - the glockenspiel used in this read-along recording
Mapping activity - Ben's Story
Educational Activities - And so, things have been a bit different
Static eBook 'And so, things have been a bit different: Ben's story'
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Sam's story: In sickness and in health (read-along printable version)
Link to the bookshop
Audio read-along version of 'In sickness and in health'
Learn to say 'hello' in Mandarin (你好 nǐ hǎo)
Learn to say 'goodbye' in Mandarin (再见 再见 zàijiàn)
Video read-along version of 'In sickness and in health: Sam's story'
Learn to say 'hello' in Farsi (salam)
Learn to say 'goodbye' in Farsi (khoda hafez)
Time for music - bells used in this audio read-along
Mapping activity - Sam's Story
Educational Activities - In Sickness and in Health
eBook version of 'In Sickness and in Health: Sam's story'
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Nathan's story: Oh, by the way, my Mum has PTSD (downloadable, printable version)
Link to the bookshop
Audio read-along version of 'Nathan's Story: Oh, by the way, my Mum has PTS'
Video read-along version of Nathan's story: Oh, by the way, my Mum has PTS
How to say 'hello' in Maori (kia ora koutou)
How to say 'goodbye' in Maori (haere rā)
Make time for music - drums (used for the page turns in the recording)
Mapping Activity - Nathan's Story
Educational Activities - Oh, by the way, my Mum has PTSD
Digitised 'Oh, by the way, my Mum has PTSD: Nathan's story'
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Video read-along version of 'Liam's story: So why do I wear Dad's medals?' (younger version)
Video read-along version of 'Liam's story: So why do I wear Dad's medals' (full version)
Audio read-along version of 'So why do I wear Dad's medals' (younger version)
Audio read-along version of 'So why do I wear my Dad's medals?' (full version)
Learn to say 'how are you?' in Cantonese (你好嗎)
Learn to say 'goodbye' in Cantonese (再見)
Make time for music - the Mbira (used for page turns in the recording)
Mapping Activity - Liam's Story
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Thinking about transitions, veterans' advice, individual and family strengths
Imagining life beyond the military - weighing up the pros and cons
Template for discussions - Pros, cons, plans and strategies for leaving
The challenges of transitions
Identity
Identity: A child's place in the world
Mental health
Special challenges for children when things go wrong
The 'invisibility' of children of veterans
Using your child's strengths to help children develop skills and interests
Practical ways to work with children's strengths
Discover children's strengths and your strengths (downloadable zip file PDF documents)
Plugging into protective factors in defence families
Reunions
Reintegration (after the reunion)
Children's Social Responses to transitions
Service Related Injuries and Medical Conditions
Service Related Mental Health Conditions and Moral Injury
Well-being Research Finds Majority of Ex-Service Families are Doing Well
Resilient Families Magazine featuring a story about a family who transitioned to civilian life
Veteran Conversations
Veterans transition into study and new career pathways
Exploring the available supports
The Certainty Myth
DCN Crisis Support Resources Map
Inquiry into transition from the Australian Defence Force (ADF)(2019)
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Using strengths in maintaining routines during relocations
Using mindmaps to support children with change
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