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PIT STOP
Kingston Family Support Services in partnership with Better Men Australia have joined to present the PIT STOP Parenting Program for Men, at the City of Kingston.
Pit Stop Program has been created by men for men. The program assists men to get a better handle on fathering, by utilising effective strategies that help raise happy and healthy children.
Below is a sample of the information and strategies that the program provides fathers:
- Develop a healthy parenting style
- Improve family communication and closeness
- Understand the ages and stages of childhood development and how to support children through these stressful stages
- Appropriately discipline children
- Provide evidence on why Dads matter in the lives of their children
- Balance life, work and family, and
- Motivate Dads to be committed, confident, capable and caring when parenting.
Pit Stop has something for every Dad, regardless of the ages of their children. The program has been designed for executive Dads, separated Dads, single Dads, teenage Dads, step Dads, grand Dads, first time Dads, Dads of infants, young children, primary schoolers, high schoolers, Dads from all cultures and same sex Dads.
Strengthening and Raising Healthy Families
The new Strengthening and Raising Healthy Families Program will be delivered by the Kingston Family Support Services and will run consecutively for 10 weeks at the Westall Community Hub.
The purpose of the program is to provide parents with support and education to raise healthy children and families. The weekly sessions will assist parents to undertake positive parenting through mutual respect, assist in developing an understanding of the ages and stages of child development, learn positive strategies and boundaries that will yield
better outcomes in their child/ren's behaviour.
The program is structured to train and educate parents in the implementation of strategies and techniques, that will enable them to understand these crucial stages in their child/ren’s development, increase their community resource awareness and service utilisation.
The program will provide parents with information that they can utilise and empower them with confidence to raise healthy child/ren and families.