Yarra Ranges Parental Guidance Program

A program for Yarra Ranges parents wanting to engage in a behaviour change journey with their child.
Includes:
• Improving communication
• Coping with crisis
• Supporting parents to take ownership of children, empowering them to make a difference
• Supporting their child and recognising existing services to assist in facilitating change

If parents ‘lose control’ of their teenage child, they often feel self-blame and worry, causing a shift of responsibility to community and organisations.
This program encourages development of active listening, understanding communication barriers, and teaches parents to facilitate a person-centric conversation that can be the drivers for change.

Disengagement from school, community and home is resulting in family violence, person and property offences, mental health and drug and alcohol issues among our youth. Parents are struggling to maintain family relationships and anti-social behaviours with offences being committed are affecting the community as a whole. ‘PG’ is a one on one or family group program teaching parents how to communicate and manage behaviour change with their teenager. With a psychologist and councillor allocated to each family, this is an opportunity to make fundamental change to bring the family unit back together and to support youth with re-engagement.