1-2-3 Magic & Emotion Coaching is a program for professionals who work with families and/or children aged between 2 and 12 years. The one-day professional development training teaches strategies to promote positive behaviour in children and tools to manage difficult behaviour. The course covers common parenting mistakes including too much talk and too much emotion, how to sort a child's behaviour, strategies for responding to each behaviour group.

Parentshop Pty Ltd

ENVISAGE is a free peer-support program for parents and caregivers raising children aged 0 8 who have a disability, developmental concerns, or are neurodivergent. Delivered through a series of five 90-minute workshops, the program is designed to help parents and carers feel more confident and empowered in making decisions for their families. Each workshop is co-facilitated by an early childhood professional and a parent with lived experience raising a child with a disability.

ENVISAGE Families

Xtend Yourself

Parents Beyond Breakup provides free, confidential telephone information and peer-support for separated, non-custodial parents experiencing distress through parental alienation.

We provide free, confidential telephone support on our national Helpline, as well as peer support for fathers, mothers and their families through our Peer Support Groups.

Our frontline services include our Suicide Helpline and our Peer Support Groups - Dads in Distress (DIDS) and Mums in Distress (MIDS).

Parents Beyond Breakup

Providing support for families with sleep dysregulation and infant mental health (0-3 years). This service provides parent and professional education and support. Free articles for parents on the website.

Parent Infant Consultants

Birth Beat provides midwifery led online antenatal education - Childbirth Education and Baby and Child First Aid classes. 

Health Care rebates available.

Birth Beat

SDERA equips educators and parents with the information and tools needed to develop resilience in young people to help them make safer choices on the road and in alcohol and other drug related situations.

School Drug Education and Road Aware (SDERA)

Online site. No fee. Raising Children Network is the complete parenting resource for all stages from pregnancy to newborns to teens. We offer research-based content on hundreds of topics for children and grown-ups.

Raising Children Network - Parenting website

Downloadable video program for all new and expecting parents. 

It prepares couples for life with the baby and helps them with parenting. 

It focuses on both the relationship parents create with their new baby and on the skills needed for the new parents to stay cohesive as a couple during the transition to parenthood.

Relationship After Baby

Pregnancy Counselling Link (QLD)

Kids First Foundation (QLD)

Relationships Australia - Bowen

Mums,Dads and carers of children aged up to five months are urged to attend the Early Parent Group in Mackay to learn about routines, sleep, Sudden Infant Death Syndrome and safety for their baby.

The group consists of four sessions over a one-month period and are run through the Child Youth and Family Health Unit at the Community Health Centre in Nelson Street.

Phone 4968 3863 to register and gain dates and times.

Mackay Community Health Centre - Early Parent Group

Infant Management and Parenting Skills is a day stay facility that provides support, information and resources for families. Triple P is a multilevel parenting support program that aims to prevent severe behavioural, emotional and developmental problems in children by enhancing the knowledge, skills and confidence of parents

Parenting and family support in Bowen

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