Practical Strategies for FASD

PCAF Intro to FASD 1

Trust-Based Relational Intervention (TBRI) with Kerri Chard

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Flexible Funding Application Demonstration Video (02 12 2024)

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Stacy Blythe: Understanding and loving complicated children.

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Parenting demands you be flexible and put your needs parallel to your child's. A yarn helps too!

Certain nutrients can slow the impacts of FASD on children from disrupted families. Diet matters.

Exercise physiology involves movement, play and the vagus nerve and pushing washing along the floor!

Support for school selection & after school activities is important. Support for you is key too

Trauma informed involves relationship based transitions when leaving home and 24/7 interdependence.

Repair childhood trauma with safe non judgemental care and avoid people pleasing, abuse & misfits!

FASD: from diagnosis to managing school, NDIS and living with this groundhog day no blame disability

Matrescence: you don't need to be a perfect adoptive parent. Motherhood /parenting is a big change!

Community Kinship Care involves openness & real relationships. Shared dinners/experiences are key.

Dog assistance training and therapy. Its not easy but its very rewarding. Seek NDIS support early!

Start school selection early so that when trauma behaviours arise, your school is ready!

What type of grandparent you are to your adoptee's children matters: be supportive & attuned.

Psychiatric, paediatric & other therapists for children with a trauma history. Where to start?

Oral health may be causing behavioural or attachment issues in out of home care: check it regularly!

Animal & Equine Therapy - learning self regulation & attachment through self awareness & connection

PCA Families Flexi Funding Application Process

Layne Beachley: let go of adoption dream thieves, sit with discomfort & find your instrinsic value.

PART 2 Behaviour Management with Bobbi Cook - Theory of Mind, SPD, school refusal and toe wriggling!

Emotional literacy requires conscious parenting without rewards and punishment and uncomfortableness

PART 1 Kinship Care with Bobbi Cook: Labels, Medication, Rules, Respite & Compensatory Parenting

Therapeutic Life Story Work: curiosity, wondering & making meaning of why a child needs to be a lion

Trauma children don't need control or punishment: coregulate, connect & own it! And say yes more!

Dr Eliana Gil on play therapy: the importance of safety & connection when those who love us hurt us

Why its important to play pie face, snap and ask when are the times I don't love you? How EMDR helps

Somatic and Sensorimotor behaviour change therapies support childhood trauma: play, art and clay!

Lets get physical with neuro therapy & fix trauma & developmental delays. Why sitting & karate help!

Adoptee and parental loss in inter country adoption: generational support for trauma and loss.

Therapeutic parenting & the brain: change takes time, connection, a village, not control/consequence

Same Sex Parenting - from respite foster care to permanent care with gratitude and connection.

Why its important to embrace culture, trauma support and relationships with carers in long term care

Respite care via Carer Gateway is available for carers despite other carer payments or allowances.

How Maggie, an African refugee, navigates the system of out of home care and comes out shining!

How does baking help parents to parent therapeutically with safety, structure and nurture?

What do kangaroos have to do with developmental trauma and control, shame, hoarding and overeating?

For school leavers and those in care, you can get to TAFE/Uni, by accessing supports (without VCE).

Blow ups and how to avoid & move on from them for adoptive, kinship and permanent care families.

Safeguarding financial interests and estate planning for kinship, permanent & adoptive families.

PCA Families Lived Experience Parenting Channel - What's it all about?

How a rescue cat and sensory play help with trauma & development: adoption, permanent & kinship care