Parent & Guardian Support
Building skills for the whole family
Our Child and Family Wellbeing Service offers free support for parents, carers and families across Palmerston and Litchfield, Katherine and the Big Rivers Region, and Gunbalanya. When we're working with a child or young person, the support often works best when the people around them are supported too, so this is practical, warm help for families, shaped around their own kids and their own way of doing things.
That might mean building confidence in the everyday moments, learning new ways to understand and respond to a child's emotions, or simply connecting with other parents going through similar things. When a family feels steadier and more supported, that steadiness reaches the children at the heart of it.
What we offer
Support is shaped around each family, and might include:
- Parenting and connection support - practical skills and gentle strategies for the everyday moments, shaped around your family rather than a one-size-fits-all approach.
- Support alongside your child's - working with the whole family, so the child and the people around them are moving in the same direction.
- A steadier home life - support with communication, routines and the day-to-day, so home feels calmer and more connected.
- Connection to other supports - a hand to reach other services when they'd help, from health care to community programs.
Groups and Activities
Groups run across our communities and change with the seasons and school terms. Current groups:
Palmerston
- Family Minds Playgroup | Tuesdays 9:00 AM – 11:30 AM | TeamHEALTH Yarrawonga Office
A welcoming space for parents and carers to connect while their children learn and play, with tea, coffee and light snacks provided. Transport is available upon request, subject to availability.
To find out more or register your interest, please contact Bree James at 0428 207 765.
- Tuning in to Kids — an evidence-based parenting program helping parents and carers of children aged 3–10 understand and respond to their children's emotions.
- Dads Tuning in to Kids — a version made for fathers, focused on strengthening the emotional connection between dads and their children.
Gunbalanya
- Daluk Night | Thursday Nights
- Weekly group sessions for women and children, offering social connection and wellbeing support, building a sense of belonging, preserving culture and tradition, deepening relationship with the land, empowering participants through shared experiences and collective growth.
- On Country Activities — gatherings where women and children reconnect with the land through bushwalking, storytelling and cultural craft. A chance to honour culture and strengthen wellbeing, belonging and connection all at once.
Katherine:
On Country cultural program - A Women’s and Children’s Wellness Program facilitated on country with a strong focus on cultural connection, wellbeing, identity, and belonging. Activities include bush medicine making, plants and animal knowledge, weaving, visiting healing places, fishing/healing activities with fire and water, learning about skin groups, Indigenous parenting perspectives. Open to current participants.
Who it's for
This support is for parents, carers and families who:
- are caring for a child or young person aged 0–18
- live in Palmerston and Litchfield, Katherine and the Big Rivers Region, or Gunbalanya
- would value some support with family life, connection at home, or their child's wellbeing.
We welcome everyone. Every family, background, faith and identity.
Not sure whether this is the right fit? Reach out anyway. We'll talk it through and help find the support that suits.
The Child and Family Wellbeing Service is delivered by TeamHEALTH, with funding from the Australian Government Department of Social Services.
"My daughter has been seeing TeamHEALTH since she was about 6 months old. They worked with me to make a plan to look after all the aspects of my life like my physical wellbeing, financial, social and my mental health.
The impact of TeamHEALTH on my daughter and myself has ensured we have a better overall family life with support systems in place. TeamHEALTH have provided advice, support and given us hope for the future and I have more confidence. They will help however they can, they won’t judge you and are on your side to support you. You don’t have to struggle by yourself."
- Child and Family Wellbeing Participant, Yarrawonga
Referral
Making a referral
A referral is the first step, and referrals are welcome from anyone. You can reach out for your own family, or a service provider can get in touch on your behalf.
If you'd like a hand with the referral form, just give us a call and we'll walk you through it.
Phone: 1300 780 081
Email: teamhealth@teamhealth.asn.au
