Online Learning & Resources
Children and young people spend significant amounts of their lives online in the cyber world, but how do we ensure that their online experiences are safe? There are so many issues to consider: how do...
There are valuable resources available on these peak bodies' websites which contain lots of useful information for home-based carers:
FOSTER CARE ASSOCATION OF VICTORIA
The Foster Care Association...
Resilience for Carers with Cheryl Harrison
Watch the Giraffe Resilience pre-recorded webinar, helping you build a set of skills and behaviours to help you to build your resilience in ways that work...
The Centre for Excellence in Child and Family Welfare presented a training session for carers on practical National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) training to better support children in care...
Griefline presented a webinar on Understanding and Coping with Living Losses. Topics focused on understanding and coping with these plus providing further options for support. A range of grief...
Throughout our lives, grief is an unavoidable and essential part of what it is to be human. When individuals and families experience a loss, every member of the family can feel and process their...
What is neurodiversity? This is a term describing the idea that people experience and interact with the world in many varied ways but there is no one ‘right’ way of thinking, learning, or behaving...
This pre-recorded 45 minute training session by Griefline, designed for kinship, foster, and permanent carers, focuses on understanding loneliness and isolation while emphasising the importance of...
This pre-recorded 45 minute training session is presented by Megan Corcoran, Director of the Wagtail Institute.
In this session, carers will learn:
- How to recognise their stress response and...
Access or contact visits with biological family can be challenging and may produce a range of emotions in children in kinship care families.
The visits can be formal or informal, and sometimes they...
What does the latest research tell us about the benefits of play for the wellbeing of children and young people? The February 2023 edition of the Royal Children’s Hospital National Child Health Poll...
What are the latest trends in nutrition? What does recent research say about what and how we should eat? And what the children in our care, in particular those children with neurodevelopmental...
