Safe exit

Child-aware practice: A workbook for professionals

Emerging Minds, Australia, July 2026

This workbook is provided as a reflective tool for practitioners, team leaders, managers and organisations to use in conjunction with Emerging Minds’ Child-aware practice online course. It contains prompts, conversation starters and questions that can be used across a range of settings.

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Online Course

Child-aware practice

Online Course

This course encourages professionals to understand and talk with parents about the impact of adult problems on children and the role of parents in supporting the safety, wellbeing and development of children. These things should be considered in all service settings - whether you're working with adults, children or families.
Practitioners Podcast

Substance use and child-aware practice – part one

Multiple guests

Runtime

00:25:02

Released

19/6/20
Practitioners Podcast

Substance use and child-aware practice – part two

Multiple guests

Runtime

00:24:39

Released

19/6/20
Practitioners Podcast

Family violence and child-aware practice – part one

Multiple guests

Runtime

00:28:18

Released

9/5/20
Practitioners Podcast

Family violence and child-aware practice – part two

Multiple guests

Runtime

00:45:28

Released

9/5/20
Webinar

Responding to uncertainty: A compassionate approach to practice

Emerging Minds and AIFS

This webinar explores compassion and uncertainty tolerance and how they shape the way we understand and relate to ourselves, our colleagues and the families we support. Together, these concepts underpin reflective, relational practice and support more thoughtful, responsive engagement grounded in curiosity and care.
Webinar

Strengthening support for LGBTQ+ young people with disability

Emerging Minds and AIFS

Drawing on lived experience, practitioner knowledge and research, this webinar explores how service providers can better support LGBTIQA+ young people with this intersecting identity.
Webinar

Supporting neurodivergent families through separation and divorce

Emerging Minds and AIFS

This webinar will build on the webinar ‘Promoting wellbeing in neurodivergent families’. It will introduce a framework to help you ensure neurodivergent children’s mental health and wellbeing remain in focus during conversations about separation and divorce. It will also explore strategies and considerations to support effective and empathic engagement with neurodivergent parents navigating separation and divorce.
Short article

Identifying and supporting children and families experiencing food insecurity

Mandy Truong, Ros Sambell and Stephanie Godrich

This short article outlines the signs of food insecurity, management strategies and the types of programs and interventions available to support children and families.
Webinar

Infant and family mental health: Integrating lived experience expertise into your practice

Emerging Minds and Mental Health Professionals' Network (MHPN)
Short article

What is food insecurity and how does it impact child mental health and wellbeing?

Dr Mandy Truong, Australian Institute of Family Studies

This article describes what food insecurity is, explores how common it is among Australian families and provides a summary of key research about its impacts on child mental health.
Research summary

The impact of adverse childhood experiences and social determinants of mental health on adult depression

Prepared by AIFS

A summary of Han & Shin's 2026 study on predictors of adult depression, particularly adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) and social determinants of mental health.