Program details
- Priority area: Wellbeing (social and emotional) access and inclusion
- Primary audience: Educators, parent/carers
- Delivery mode: Professional services, online
- Strength of evidence: Level 3 - Promising research evidence
- AEDC sub-domains:
- Emotional maturity - anxious and fearful behaviour
- Emotional maturity - aggressive behaviour
- Social competence - responsibility and respect
- Item cost: Variable
Program description
Parents Building Solutions (PBS) is a strengths-based, developmental parenting program that builds on the existing skill base of parents/carers. It aims to strengthen child development and wellbeing through enhanced parenting skills and family relationships. Each program is co-designed with parents attending to develop a customised program that meets individual needs.
The program runs for 2-hours per week for six weeks. One-off workshops (2-hours commitment) can also be delivered on selected topics.
The program involves evidence-based strategies that include:
- understanding and acknowledging existing strengths, skills and experiences
- harnessing the strengths and knowledge within the group to share learning
- connecting new knowledge to existing experiences
- selecting group activities that scaffold current knowledge and skills
- experiential learning and practice of skills
Detailed cost
Six week program (six x 2-hour sessions) for up to 12 participants: $5,624 (excluding GST)
Two hour workshop on selected topics for up to 15 participants: $1,100 (excluding GST)
If required, the following will affect the price:
- Travel
- Interpreting costs: If required interpreting can be arranged at industry rates through Victorian Interpreting and Translating Service (VITS) LanguageLoop
- Venue hire: Parents Building Solutions can be delivered at your early years’ service, if suitable. If a venue is required (for example, local council venue or library) additional charges may apply.
- Catering: if required to be supplied by Anglicare Victoria will incur a cost
- Second facilitator.
Implementation considerations
- Target population: parents and carers with a wide variety of backgrounds, including diverse family constellations as well as multi-generational parenting, kinship carers and foster carers, LGBTIQ families, Aboriginal families (in partnership with Aboriginal Community Controlled Organisations), migrant and newly arrived communities across Melbourne, parents of children with a disability, parents with mental health difficulties, parents with language and communication needs, and families experiencing hardship and adversity.
- Program adaptability: the PBS program can be delivered online to metropolitan, regional or rural Victoria, or face-to-face within metropolitan Melbourne and Inner Gippsland. Face-to-face delivery may also be negotiated in other regional Victoria settings, but this will incur additional travel and accommodation costs.
- Staffing: services should consider the cost of backfill in determining the cost of accessing this training.
- Factors to consider: a minimum of eight participants is required. For additional participants, a second facilitator may be required, allowing up to 24 participants to attend.
- Tools and systems: if delivered online, parents will require a computer with access to the internet and Zoom.
VEYLDF alignment
Item uses these practice principles
- Reflective practice
- Partnerships with families
- High expectations for every child
- Respectful relationships and responsive engagement
- Equity and diversity
- Partnerships with professionals
Item responds to these sub-outcomes
Children become strong in their social, emotional and spiritual wellbeing.
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