Allied Health Social Work Services

  • Courses for parents navigating School Refusal.

  • Grandparents Course helping build connection with your Demand Sensitive Grandchild.

  • Our courses are here to guide and support you through School Refusal or School Can’t, and how this journey affects your relationships & ability to see a positive future for your child.

  • We provide you with a framework of lived experience of School Refusal/Can’t.

  • Our aim is to provide evidence based resources & information about parenting Neurodivergent or Anxious children experiencing School Refusal/Can’t.

  • Help you & your child improve: communication, interpersonal relationships, being part of their community and seeing a compelling future for your family.

Through a compassionate, caring & understanding approach.

On-Demand Courses for Parents & Carers:

Navigating School Refusal

A Lived Experience

This course is an On-Demand 5 Module course. I take you through a lived experience framework of School Refusal. I provide evidence based strategies to assist you and your family to see your journey from a new perspective which enables you to look beyond the must’s and should’s. To focus on the now and increasing your belief that everything will work out OK.

MODULE 01

Understanding School Refusal & Shifting Perspective.

MODULE 02

Applying this knolwedge to your own family’s experience of School Refusal.

MODULE 03

Parent’s differing perspectives: Building Strong Trusting Relationships.

MODULE 4

Working with Schools: understanding & identifying Reasonable Adjustments. Includes a 12 page Document of Resaonable Adjustments, for you to suggest what supports might work for your child at school.

MODULE 05

The Power of Parents Mindset.

*NDIS Eligibility

Parents Differing Perspectives: Building Strong Trusting Relationships

This On-Demand course takes an indepth look at parents differing perspectives and their intentions in supporting their child experiencing School Refusal/Can’t. We focus on strategies to coming together to a shared understanding with a plan.

*NDIS Eligibility

Working with School - included 12 page List of Reasonable Adjustments

This On-Demand course provides parents with the tools they need to collabarate with school. It includes the key ingredients to working with school, how to show up as a Professional Parent and a 12 Page Document of Reasonable Adjustments to suggust to school.

*NDIS Eligibility

Grandparenting Demand Sensitive Children

This On-Demand course takes an indepth look at understanding demand sensitive grandchildren, the role grandparents can play to build connection with their grandchild and help ease the load of parenting.

Grandparents I work with ask themselves:

  • Will I ever have a connection with my grandchild?

  • How will my grandchild build resilience?

  • What will their future be like?

  • How do I be useful and supportive as a grandparent for my own child who is parenting?

RESOURCES:

Helping Families experiencing School Can’t Difficulties

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FREE Resource Guide

  • Created to support families whose child or young person is experiencing school attendance difficulties.

  • Information about evidence based practices and supporting frameworks.

  • Links to support services and podcasts relating to why your child may find it difficult to attend school.

  • Support for you, your child or young person.

  • 5 tips for being an effective parent advocate.

"Comprehensive Resource Guide: When Your Child Can't, Not Won't Attend School" with image of a concerned parent hugging a child in a bedroom.

Comprehensive Resource Guide

  • Deeper dive into the complex issues faced by Burnout and School Can’t, and how this impacts your child’s life & your family life.

  • Information about evidence based practice and supporting frameworks.

  • Extensive resource list of experts who can help.

  • Information about financial assistance and NDIS.

Lived Experience Podcast Interviews

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COMING SOON -Podcast of Lived experience interviews

  • We are looking forward to launching our podcast series on neurodivergent lived experiences.

  • We interview neurodivergent young people & parents who have lived experience of School Can’t.

  • We take a deep dive into the complex issues faced by Autistic Burnout, Anxiety and School Can’t and how each child’s journey is so different.

  • We take a look at evidence based practice and supporting frameworks.

Dr Ross Greene, “Kids do well if they can”