Council’s Health and Family Services department is pleased to be once again running a series of Parenting Information Forums for Whitehorse parents, grandparents and carers in 2017.

What are Parenting Information Forums?

To deliver the Parenting Information Forum Program, Council uses a range of guest speakers to reflect the diverse range of parenting approaches that individuals, communities and cultures hold.  The program aims to achieve great outcomes for families, children and young people and believes that effective parenting matters to a child’s lifelong development and overall wellbeing.  By extension Whitehorse Council believes that we must support parents to develop key parenting skills and to relieve common parenting pressures through information.

The information provided to parents at our Parenting Information Forum program does not necessarily reflect the opinions of Council or any employee thereof. Council is therefore not responsible for the accuracy or validity of any of the information presented by the guest presenters.

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2018 Calendar

Below are the dates for the 2018 Parenting Information Forums. For further information please contact Council’s Parent Resource Officer on 9262 6175 or parentresource@whitehorse.vic.gov.au  

 

Date	Topic	Speaker/s	Further Information
Tuesday 27 March	Transition from Kinder to Primary School	Louise Dorrat Early Childhood Consultant	Closed
Tuesday 17 April	Parenting in a Digital World	Martine Oglethorpe	Closed
Tuesday 22 May	Promoting body safety & protective behaviours in our children	Deanne Carson Body Safety Australia	Closed
Tuesday 19 June	Positive & Effective Ways of Managing Children’s Behaviours	Sally Ward Early Life Foundation	Closed
Tuesday 17 July	Making sense of adolescence & risk taking behaviours	Rod Dungan Thriving Youth	Closed
Tuesday 28 August	Supporting our Children with Peer Relationships & Bullying	Michelle Murray Bully Zero	Bookings open
Tuesday 18 September	Managing VCE Stress	Silvana Lettieri Headspace	Bookings open
Tuesday 16 October	Surviving High School	Sharon Witt	Further information to come  Not open for bookings