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Family Webinars

Are you looking for more information and resources for your family? Watch our series of webinars here.

The Family and Children’s Services team at Yarra Ranges Council are committed to supporting families and keeping our community connected.

Stay in touch with the Family and Children's Services team online until our regular face to face programming is back in action by liking and following the Yarra Ranges Families Facebook Page

Parenting Through Stress & Isolation

In this practical webinar for parents and carers of children aged 0-12 years Bec Filliponi takes you through simple strategies to increase your ability to regulate your emotions while parenting and dealing with stress and isolation.

Mindful Parents

Practice mindful moments in your daily life. Train the brain for a sense of calm, self compassion and kindness. Participants explore how mindfulness physically changes our brain, behaviour & transforms our relationships.

Connection Based Parenting

How to build better brains and relationships for all ages. Learn how to use games, play and connection to help regulate your child’s stress responses.

Reconnecting After Trauma

Learn how stress and trauma impact brain and behaviour. Practical ideas that can help restore calm, safety and connection to your family.

Taming the Tiger

Identify the emotional triggers in yourself and your family that lead to anger, understand the science and function of emotions, explore coping skills, resourcing, effective communication and practical tools and techniques to help restore calm and emotional health to your family.

Kinder and School Transition: Let’s talk about differences

There are so many differences between home, kinder and school for a child, so how can we help them to become more familiar?

Kinder and School Transition: Getting Skills Ready

In supporting our children in their transition to kinder and school, let’s consider what they need and how we can provide it for them.

Kinder and School Readiness: Brain Development and Play Based Learning

This presentation explores how we can support our child’s development and how play and positive interactions build kinder and school readiness skills.

Kinder and School Readiness: When can my child start?

Parents often ask, when will their child be ready to start Kinder or school? The transition from home, to early childhood education and onto school are important milestones for both children and their families.

Yarra Ranges Shire Council
P.O. Box 105, Anderson Street
Lilydale, VIC 3140

P 1300 368 333
F (03) 9735 4249
E mail@yarraranges.vic.gov.au

Media contact: 0409 265 642

Yarra Ranges Council respectfully acknowledges the traditional owners, the Wurundjeri people, as the custodians of this land. We pay respect to all Aboriginal community Elders, past and present, who have resided in the area and have been an integral part of the history of the region.