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A FREE, 8-week group for Afghan women to develop and enhance your parenting skills, focusing on building your relationship with your children.

Do you:

  • have difficulty managing your child’s behaviour?
  • want to strengthen your parenting skills?
  • want to learn ways to better connect with your child?
  • feel concerned about the level of conflict in your home?
  • want to meet and connect with other Afghan women?

In this program, we'll talk about:

  • emotional intelligence and why it’s important
  • how to maintain important cultural values whilst also incorporating new parenting ideas and research
  • the 5 steps of emotion coaching
  • our family experiences and how they might influence how we parent our children
  • different parenting styles
  • anger and conflict management
  • problem solving
  • emotional self-care.

Who can attend?

We’re funded to provide this program for Afghan women with children aged 12 years and under and a connection to any of the following areas:

  • City of Boroondara
  • Shire of Cardinia
  • City of Casey
  • Greater Dandenong City
  • City of Hobsons Bay
  • City of Keilor
  • City of Brimbank
  • City of Manningham
  • City of Melbourne
  • Melton
  • Bacchus Marsh
  • City of Monash
  • City of Greater Shepparton.

This group is facilitated by Afghan women who are fluent in several Afghan dialects.

Parents are able to attend this group with babies and pre-school children. Childcare and refreshments will be provided.

Upcoming group dates

Eight sessions from 9:30am - 12:30pm on Tuesdays in term 2, 2025:

  • 29 April
  • 6 May
  • 13 May
  • 20 May
  • 27 May
  • 3 June
  • 10 June
  • 17 June.

A free, 6-week group for multicultural parents and carers in Greater Dandenong to develop and enhance your parenting skills, focusing on building your relationship with your child.

This group will help you to:

  • be more aware of and regulate your own emotions
  • be more aware of your child’s emotions
  • use your child’s emotional experiences as an opportunity for closeness and teaching
  • teach your child skills to verbally name their emotions
  • teach your child skills to solve problems
  • guide your child’s behaviour with appropriate limits.

Who can attend?

Parents and carers with children aged 12 years and under who have a connection to the Greater Dandenong area. 

You can come on your own or with another person who cares for your child.

Our multicultural facilitators will use simple English during sessions. Please contact us if you need an interpreter in your own language.

Please note: We will provide child-minding support and refreshments.

 

Contact us

To express your interest in upcoming groups or to find out more, contact our Cranbourne Centre. You can: