A culturally sensitive programme that supports parents to strengthen their parenting skills and enhance relationships with their children.
The programme considers ways to build stronger community connections and promote children’s safety and wellbeing.
It addresses issues relating to community violence – including drugs, guns and knife crime.
Parents also learn techniques to teach key rites of passage that can be adapted according to children’s developmental stages.
Topics covered:
- understanding children’s development
- building positive family relationships
- valuing family and cultural traditions
- 10 steps to positive discipline
- handling stress and anger
- community involvement
- employment and training support
- community violence
Parents are encouraged to maintain and incorporate their own traditional customs and positive values from their individual ethnic, spiritual and cultural backgrounds.
They may be offered a weekly call-in between sessions to help put ideas into practice. Delivery includes:
- group discussion
- group activities
- speakers
- ‘have a go’ tasks to try at home
