A FREE, 6-week group for Afghan women in the Cranbourne area to develop and enhance your parenting skills, focusing on building your relationship with your children.
Do you:
- have difficulty managing your child’s behaviour?
- want to strengthen your parenting skills?
- want to learn ways to better connect with your child?
- feel concerned about the level of conflict in your home?
- want to meet and connect with other Afghan women?
In this program, we'll talk about:
- emotional intelligence and why it’s important
- how to maintain important cultural values whilst also incorporating new parenting ideas and research
- the 5 steps of emotion coaching
- our family experiences and how they might influence how we parent our children
- different parenting styles
- anger and conflict management
- problem solving
- emotional self-care.
Who can attend?
We’re funded to provide this program for Afghan women with children aged 12 years and under and a connection to any of the following areas:
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City of Boroondara
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Shire of Cardinia
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City of Casey
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Greater Dandenong City
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City of Hobsons Bay
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City of Keilor
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City of Brimbank
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City of Manningham
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City of Melbourne
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Melton
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Bacchus Marsh
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City of Monash
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City of Greater Shepparton.
This group is facilitated by Afghan women who are fluent in several Afghan dialects.
Parents are able to attend this group with babies and pre-school children. Child care will be provided for face-to-face groups.
Upcoming group dates
Six sessions from 9:30am - 12:30pm on Tuesdays in term 2, 2025:
- 29 April
- 6 May
- 13 May
- 20 May
- 27 May
- 3 June.
Contact us
To express your interest in upcoming groups or to find out more, contact our Cranbourne Centre:
- Phone (03) 5990 1900
- Email cranbourne@rav.org.au
