Children & Families
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CatholicCare NT – Children and Parenting Support
Our Children and Parenting programs can help families in different ways. Home visits and community outreach: CatholicCare NT can provide “in home” parenting support and education. We work with you to identify issues that could impact your children or family. We can provide support and referrals to help you with these issues before they escalate. Where available, we can also help transport you and your family to activities, playgroups and appointments. Parent education: Our parenting education groups focus on child development. They help to build parenting skills and knowledge. For more information on parenting education and groups click here. Peer support groups: Peer support groups let you link you in with other families in the same stage of life. These peer supports include groups for mothers and babies, primary school parents and single fathers. Children and youth counselling: Counselling is available for children, young people and families. These sessions are tailored to your needs.
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CatholicCare NT – Children and Youth Counselling
Our counselling service is for young people who have experienced family violence or trauma. Counselling focuses on strengths and family relationships.
How we help
Counselling sessions are delivered in flexible locations based on the client’s needs. Our counsellors use a range of approaches and tools that are suitable for children and youth.
Is there a cost?
A sliding fee scale can apply. Fees can be waived if financial hardship.
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CatholicCare NT – Children’s Contact Services
We have Children’s Contact Centres in Darwin and Alice Springs. They are safe and neutral spaces for supervised contact visits and/or family changeovers. This gives children the chance to have meaningful relationships with their parents and other significant people in their lives. We help separated families where there is conflict.
Changeovers: Our centres allow parents to drop off and pick up their children while avoiding contact with the other parent.
Supervised visits: Our centres allow parents to spend quality time with their children. These visits are supervised by our workers.
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CatholicCare NT – Family and Relationship Counselling
Our family and relationship counselling helps children, young people and adults to develop safe and supportive family relationships. We work with families to support wellbeing.
How we help
We provide counselling to help couples and families manage issues that can arise from relationship changes, separation or divorce. We help couples and families develop the skills they need to maintain positive and stable relationships with each other.
What is the referral process?
Individuals, family members and service providers can refer people to this program.
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CatholicCare NT – Family Mental Health Support Services
The Family Mental Health Support Service supports families with children and young people who show signs of mental illness. Our goal is to improve mental health and wellbeing for individuals, families and communities. We help children, young people and their families by providing support, assistance and group work. We provide community outreach, mental health promotion and education. Communities that understand mental health needs can improve mental health outcomes.
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CatholicCare NT – Jipingdila Early Learning Centre
Jipingdila Early Learning Centre is located at Milikapiti at Melville Island. The centre is open from 8:00am – 4:00pm daily. We offer up to 15 children a day as our capacity. The centre provides culturally appropriate education and care environment that offers plenty of space for children to explore, discover, experiment in both natural and structural environment.
We have one large room in the centre with an area for babies, a quite book corner, areas with dinosaurs, wooden blocks, creativity and other available resources for children to choose from. The area is also designed for children to have a choice of an indoor or an outdoor activity and to allow a flow of children to participate in any activity of their choice.
The areas are appropriately organised with the intent to encourage children to explore their interests, curiosity and to encourage sharing and play together. We focus closely on children and their family’s needs by working together.
We believe Play-based Learning is important to a child’s development of social and emotional skills, language development of Tiwi language and English, and supporting children’s ability to develop positive relationships with peers and positive role modelling from their Elders, Parents and Community.
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CatholicCare NT – Parent Education
We know that parenting can be hard and challenging. That’s why we run programs to help you develop skills to raise happy, healthy and resilient children.
Who we help
Our programs help parents and families with babies and children in school.
How we help
We run different types of groups and programs to help parents in different stages of life. They focus on different areas of child development and parenting skills.
Here are some of the programs we run:
Tuning into Kids: Tuning into Kids is an emotion-focused parenting program. It provides parents and carers with skills to ‘tune in to’ their child’s emotions, while managing their own.
Circles of Security: This program is based on decades of research about how secure parent-child relationships can be supported and strengthened.
Bringing up Great Kids: The more we understand our children the more we can help and support them. One of the ways we can do this is to think about memories of our own childhood and imagine the world from a child’s point of view.
123 Magic: This program is based on establishing the role of parenting consisting of three tasks – working with behaviours that are based on communication, encouraging good behaviours and strengthening the parent-child relationship.
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CatholicCare NT – Wulangurrumatu Early Learning Centre
Wulangurrumatu Early Learning Centre is located at Pirlangimpi at Melville Island. The centre is open from 8:00am – 4:00pm daily. We offer up to 15 children a day as our capacity. The centre provides culturally appropriate education and care environment that offers plenty of space for children to explore, discover, experiment in both natural and structural environment.
We have one large room in the centre with an area for babies, a quite book corner, a dinosaur area with wooden blocks, an area for creativity and other available resources of children choices. The areas are appropriately organised and with the intent to encourage children to explore their interests, curiosity and to encourage sharing and play together. We focus closely on children and their family’s needs by working together.
The outdoor play area offers plenty of shade for children to play in, we have swing and natural resources available for children to explore their physical environment.
We believe Play-based Learning is important to a child’s development of social and emotional skills, language development of Tiwi language and English, and supporting children’s ability to develop positive relationships with peers and positive role modelling from their Elders, Parents and Community.
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CatholicCare NT- Nauiyu Nambiyu Child Care Centre
The Nauiyu Nambiyu (Daly River) Child Care Centre provides culturally appropriate education and care service. The Centre is dedicated to improving children’s early learning and wellbeing outcomes.The Centre provides support for all families by caring for their children in a safe, supervised environment that supports development and education.We provide education and care for non-school aged children from Nauiyu Nambiyu (Daly River) community. Child care activities focus on social, emotional and cultural development, as well as creative learning and early communication and language skills.
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Central Desert Regional Council
The Council delivers a range of Agency, Commercial and Other Council Services that contribute toward improving the level of services provided to their communities. The Council is faced with the challenge of delivering a broad range of services to a standard acceptable to the community whilst at the same time raising revenues required to deliver core services within the context of its community’s ability to support.
The Central Desert Regional Council is responsible for:
- Partnerships and Relationships
- External Resources (Suppliers and Contractors)
- Information Resources
- Physical Resources
- Human Resources
- Financial Resources
- Facilitating Local Education and Training
And managing the following resources:
- Ensuring Legislative Compliance
- Providing Advice and Advocacy
- Providing Corporate Governance
- Delivering Core Services
The Council operates under the Local Government Act (external link) and its regulations.
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