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Category Archives: Families & parenting
3 reasons I do not support a postal vote on same-sex marriage
Like most other Western countries there is increasing support for legalising same-sex marriage in Australia. We are about to have a national postal vote, run by the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS), to discover whether or not Australians support legalising … Continue reading
Password protected post
You may have noticed that I just published a password protected post. I had hoped that subscribers would not be notified, but you were! It includes a couple of resources for Alternative to Violence Project facilitators that will not be … Continue reading
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Creating an online course on engaging families and communities
From 2018, an undergraduate online elective I teach on community engagement at the University of Newcastle will be one of a growing number of courses (or subjects) the Family Action Centre is offering in family studies at both an undergraduate … Continue reading
Recruitment: an important step in engagement
Without successful recruitment, family and community engagement can flounder. Before programs and other initiatives can successfully engage participants, people need to show up or become engaged in some other way. Although advertising and promotion are not engagement in their own … Continue reading
The importance of recruitment in engagement – an example
There were some problems with formatting that I couldn’t fix so I’ve re-done the post here.
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Strengths-based measurement
As practitioners and researchers we need to think carefully about the types of measures we use with the people we support. The measures we use can cause pain and distress for participants, undermine trust and engagement, and produce unreliable data. … Continue reading
Principles of effective parent engagement in early childhood education
The engaging diverse families project of the National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC) identified principles of family engagement in early childhood education, collected case studies of good practice and developed resources to help programs more effectively engage … Continue reading
An Alternatives to Violence Project workshop for parents
I am currently helping to plan and facilitate an Alternatives to Violence Project (AVP) workshop for parents through Family Support Newcastle. We have a good team of four facilitators with a variety of experience and backgrounds. While this workshop will … Continue reading
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Tagged Alternatives to Violence Project, AVP, Conflict resolution, Facilitation, Nonviolence, Workshops
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10 tasks of “good enough” parents
When we had our first child, I genuinely worried I would leave her on a train or forget her while out shopping. I’m glad to say that she is now 16 and my fears never came to pass. (Although I … Continue reading
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Tagged For students, Parenting, Working with families
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