Parent and Teacher Resources

Workshop Handbook

You can download our handbook that is associated with our parent workshops here:

• Building Resilient Kids
• How to Drug Proof Your Kids
• Bully Proofing Your Kids

Information Sheets

Here are some information sheets relating to the 40 developmental assets for creating resilient young people:

• Pre-schoolers (ages 3 to 5)
• Lower primary students (ages 5 to 9)
• Upper primary students (ages 8 to 12)
• Secondary students (ages 12 to 18)

Useful Articles

Here are some articles and resources that we think are of note:

• Struggle for smarts? - enabling young people to struggle through solving problems has great benefits
• Ten Hints for Creating Resilient Families - by Andrew Fuller
• Teaching Resilience in Children - by Justin Coulson
• How to Safeguard teenagers in the world of technology - Some useful tips for parents on cyber-safety and social networking
• Positive Parental Engagement - 7 tips on how to provide effective parental engagement with the school
• Spend Quality Time with Kids — 100 ways we can maximise & enjoy our time with our kids 
• How to be happy - by Duke University
• How to be miserable - by Andrew Fuller
• Empathy video - by Brene Brown
• Praising Effort video - Life at 9

General Resources

Here are some other useful websites, resources and contact numbers for parents:

General advice

• Parentline (Vic.) 13 22 89
• Parentline (NSW) 1300 1300 52
• Parentline (QLD & NT) 1300 30 1300
• Parentline (SA) 1300 364 100
• Parentline (WA) 1800 654 432
• Parentline (ACT) (02) 6287 3833
• Parentline (TAS) 1300 808 178

Internet safety

• ACA video on cyber-safety
• Social Media Etiquette Video
• Kids Health
• Maths Doctor

Bullying

• Bullying.No Way!
• Bully Stoppers

Depression & anxiety

• Beyond Blue