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This free parenting program developed by the Australian Childhood Foundation (link: https://childhood.org.au) promotes respectful and caring relationships between parents and caregivers and their children. Your skilled practitioner will support you to build positive healthy relationships with your children through mindfulness and reflection.  Through participating in the program, parents and caregivers will understand child development, improve communication and build positive relationships with their children.  

There are three programs available: 

  • Bringing Up Great Kids – The Early Years for parents within children aged 0 – 5 years. The program uses ideas of mindfulness and reflection to support parents to review and enhance their patterns of communication with their children, to promote more respectful interactions and encourage the development of children’s positive self-identity. All families referred to Caroline Chisholm Society for parenting support will participate in this program. 
  • Bringing Up Great Kids- The First 1000 Days for parents at the beginning of their parenting journey.  The first 1,000 days of life – the time spanning roughly between conception and a child’s second birthday – is a unique period of opportunity when the foundations of optimum health, growth, and neurodevelopment across the lifespan are established. 

The parenting style experienced in the first 1000 days is critical to the way a child can experience attachment and has an impact on the health and wellbeing outcomes for the child in later life. Research on the importance of the first 1000 days identifies a warm, responsive, mindful, reflective and supportive parenting style as providing the best outcome of children’s overall development while the children are young and impacts positively on their later life skills and health. 

The Bringing Up Great Kids in the first 1000 days program has been designed to nurture parents as they embark on their journey supporting their children. 

All parents that participate in the Caroline Chisholm Society First 1000 Days will also participate in this program. 

  • Bringing Up Great Kids – After Family Violence supports female victim survivors to reclaim their confidence with parenting. Often, women and children who have experienced family violence can become disconnected from family and community as a result. It offers parents the opportunity to find connection, solidarity and a sense of safety by connecting with facilitators and other participants who have similar experiences. 

Bringing Up Great Kids is a 12 hour program, usually delivered over nine weeks and is free of charge for families receiving family services support.