The Parent Group Facilitator Training has been designed to support professionals working in parent education. Launching in September 2026, this practical, strengths-based training builds confidence, facilitation skills and professional connection for those supporting diverse groups of parents.

This National Reconciliation Week, Australian Childhood Foundation explores what it truly means to be “All In” for reconciliation - beyond acknowledgements and awareness days, towards daily action, cultural safety, truth-telling, and genuine allyship for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children, families, and communities.

If we fail to support the adults around children, we unintentionally limit their access to the very relationships that support their development.

Discover how risky play supports children’s confidence, resilience, and development, including practical ways to support safe exploration.

Without connection, young people can still feel alone. Explore why relational practice must be at the centre of care.

Explore how humour, empathy, boundaries, and a light-hearted approach strengthen trauma-informed leadership.

Learn to identify child grooming in organisations, understand key risk factors, and implement effective safeguarding practices.

Kinship care is complex, unplanned, and deeply relational. Explore how belonging, identity, and connection shape care for children and families.

Children’s behaviour is communication, not defiance. Learn how to interpret behaviours with empathy and insight.

What blocked care is, why it happens, and how carers can gently reconnect with empathy and hope.

New research from the ARC Linkage project is shaping policy and practice in therapeutic residential care, strengthening relationships, safety, and wellbeing for young people in out-of-home care.

Explore how polyvagal theory supports safety, regulation, and ethical reflection in trauma-informed supervision.