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Kids Helpline: Bullying

When bullying happens at school, it’s hard to know how to help your child. Let’s explore what bullying is and what you can do as a parent.

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Parental Stress Centre

Awesome parenting programs and resources. To help parents experience personal peace and to feel good about themselves – to teach them to be able to accept the ups and downs of life and cope with the challenges that we face.  For parents to be able to pass these life skills onto their children. 

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Christina Keeble Consulting

My aim is to educate, collaborate, support and uplift families/carers, individuals & professionals who are neurodivergent (Autistic, ADHD, learning differences, etc.) themselves, who support a neurodivergent individual or who may just be looking to understand more about neurodiversity. I will do this from my lived experience as a teacher, as a woman and as an Autistic & ADHD mum to two neurodivergent PDAers.

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Generic Youth Suicide Action Plan – Square Tile

Click below for step by step action when a young person is in danger of suicide. Square tile for your socials. Don’t forget to tag us!

 

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Generic Youth Suicide Action Plan – Landscape

Click below for step by step action when a young person is in danger of suicide. Print out and fill in your own local information.

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Generic Youth Suicide Action Plan – Portrait

Click below for step by step action when a young person is in danger of suicide. Print out and fill in your own local information.

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Northern Beaches Youth Suicide Action Plan – Square Tile

Click below for step by step action when a young person on the Northern Beaches is in danger of suicide. Square tile for your socials. Don’t forget to tag us!

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Northern Beaches Youth Suicide Action Plan – Portrait

Click below for step by step action when a young person on the Northern Beaches is in danger of suicide.

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Alcohol & Drug Counselling Online

Counselling Online is a free and confidential service that provides 24/7 support to people across Australia affected by alcohol or drug use. It’s for anyone who wants to change their drinking or drug use, or for friends and family of people managing substance use. Advice for parents on how to approach the subject with their teens.

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What is Cannabis? Effects, dependence, resources etc…

Australian advice and information on marijuana. It’s good to be informed and calm before you storm your kids bedroom or brain…

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Cannabis: FAQs for Parents

Talking to your kids about drugs. What every parent should know. Tons of useful information from Cannabis Information and Support.

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Northern Beaches Youth Suicide Action Plan – Landscape

Click below for step by step action when a young person on the Northern Beaches is in danger of suicide.

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Podcast: Parenting Through Grief

From the Good Mourning Grief Podcast series. “Today we are sharing your experiences and tips on parenting after a loss and talking to kids about grief…”

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Podcast: Good Mourning Grief

Good Mourning shines a light on what grief is really like with honesty, hope and humour. Hosts Sally Douglas and Imogen Carn are two mates who are real, truthful, a little bit sweary and on a mission to help others feel less alone after loss.

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Podcast: Advocating for kids with Autism & The Future of the NDIS

Part of the NDIS Know-How Series: This conversation covers how to advocate for our kids – especially those with autism – at an NDIS planning meeting, the liberating benefits of being plan managed, and what changes to our government and the NDIS could mean for our community.

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Podcast: NDIS Know-How

Welcome to NDIS Know-how, a podcast series that asks parents how they get the very best NDIS plan and ample funding to support their kid.

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ReachOut: Free One on One Parent Support

A free coaching service for parents and carers. Create clarity and increase confidence to support your teen through a tough time.

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The Educating Parents Homeschooling and Unschooling Facebook support page

A supportive and informative Australian Facebook page with over 32000 members…

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Prevention United

Prevention United is a new national charity with big ambitions. We’re different. Unlike other mental health organisations in Australia, we have an exclusive focus on promoting mental wellbeing and preventing mental health conditions – across the entire spectrum of conditions.

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Kids Helpline: Supporting a Child who is Thinking of Suicide

As a parent, it’s frightening to hear your child talk about suicide and it can be difficult to know how to help.

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Raising Children: The Australian Parenting Website

Suitable for 12-18 years
Suicidal thoughts and suicide attempts: teenagers

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Youtube: Lucy Clark author of Beautiful Failures

Lucy Clark talks about her daughter’s situation trying, wanting, failing to attend school. A must listen for every parent and teacher with a young person struggling to attend school or just struggling with school in general.

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Parenting Guidelines for Adolescent Alcohol Use

Information, risks, tips, resources, links to other websites.

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Parenting Strategies

Parents have an important positive influence on their child’s mental wellbeing. There’s now good evidence to show that by supporting parents in their parenting we can help children and teenagers to stay well.

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School Can’t Australia – Facebook Support Page

Support page for parents and carers of school can’t kids. So much support here with almost 9,000 families with lived experience. And resources. You will quickly realise you’re not alone.

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YouTube: Tuning Into Teens Webinar

Pick up some practical skills to connect with your teen.

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Violent and Challenging Behaviour

Sharing essential parenting strategies to help you to lead your child beyond their anxieties, fears, confusion and extreme behaviour. If your family is coping with on-going violence and challenging behaviour from a child with a neurodevelopmental disorder, here’s some basic information as a guide only.

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Podcast: Dr Ross Greene

Dr. Ross Greene, originator of the Collaborative & Proactive Solutions model and author of The Explosive Child, Lost at School, Lost & Found, and Raising Human Beings, provides guidance to parents on understanding and helping kids with social, emotional, and behavioural challenges.

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Podcast: Dr Shefali Tsabary and Oprah

Conscious parenting can change the world. Clinical psychologist, parenting expert, and bestselling author Dr. Shefali Tsabary shares with Oprah her eye-opening ideas on raising happier, more conscious children.

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Dr Mona Delahooke

I’m a clinical psychologist empowering joyful, resilient parent-child relationships by translating neuroscience research into practical and compassionate tools and strategies. Mona Delahooke’s books are so important for parents and educators alike.

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Dr Ross Greene – CPS Model

Dr. Greene is a clinical psychologist, and he’s been working with children and families for over 30 years. His influential work is widely known throughout the world. He is the creator of CPS – Collaborative and Proactive Solutions.

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Dr Shefali Tsabary

Conscious parenting guru. How to recognise the way our ego can drive our parenting choices. Drop the ego and see the child as their own person, not a continuation of us. This can be liberating.

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Circle of Security

What is the Circle of Security?

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PAAA: Parents for ADHD Advocacy Australia

We are a national volunteer-run community group dedicated to improving the lives of young people with ADHD, and their families, through ADHD awareness, education and advocacy.

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Podcast: Avalon Youth Hub – Anxiety

Anxiety – from young people’s perspective. This episode explores very personal views on what anxiety really feels like, physically and emotionally, triggers for causing anxiety and how young people want others to address anxiety. How should we be responding?

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YouTube: Kristina Kuzmic and her son Luka

Kristina and Luka open up to each other about his mental health and drug and alcohol addiction struggles. Hope and humour.

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PFLAG: Parents, Family and Friends of Lesbians and Gays

PFLAG is a non-profit voluntary organisation whose members have a common goal of keeping families together. PFLAG is here to give help, support and information to families and friends of all gay people. We endeavour to build a more inclusive safer place for all gender-diverse communities.

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Article: From denial to unconditional love, a mother rejoices in her trans child

Nevo Zisin, 25, is non-binary and an author and educator on transgender identity. Their mum, Sharon Swiatlo, 63, is an English teacher turned Melbourne tour guide. Despite rock-bottom times, their relationship endures.

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QLife

QLife provides Australia-wide anonymous, LGBTI peer support and referral for people wanting to talk about a range of issues including sexuality, identity, gender, bodies, feelings or relationships. QLife services are FREE and include both telephone and webchat support, delivered by trained LGBTI community members across the country. Our services are for LGBTI individuals, their friends and families, and health professionals in Australia.

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Twenty10 – Gay and Lesbian Counselling Service of NSW

For resources, training, phone support, webchat, posters and flyers, workshops, counselling, case management and much more…

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Butterfly – Get Support – Eating Disorders

Free and confidential support
National Helpline: 1800 33 4673
Phone, online chat or email
Find a Professional – Database

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Family Advocacy

We work with families to defend and promote the rights and interests of people with developmental disability.

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Podcast: Too Peas in a Podcast

Listen to Mandy Hose and Kate Jones laugh (a lot) and cry as they chat to each other and friends about parenting multiples with disabilities and additional needs.

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YouTube clip: The Coke Bottle Effect

When autistic kids hold it all together at school or otherwise known as ‘had a great day’ and explode when they get back to their safe place. Explained by an autistic adult. Main story starts at the 4min mark.

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Reflection: A mother and son chat on mental health and drug dependence

Comedian Kristina Kuzmic and her son open up honestly about his mental health struggles, drug dependence, violence and what she learned through raising him.

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Message from the mother of a struggling teen

We all need to hear this from comedian Kristina Kuzmic…”If the timeline that you have set for yourself, or the world has set for you does not work out, that’s okay. Prioritise your mental health and be so proud of your achievements whenever they come.” Go to resource for a bit more of the story….

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