Fact sheets

Organisations can seek to offer people opportunities to develop new knowledge and skills throughout their involvement. Consider some ways your organisation may be able to make such opportunities available to children and families.

The purpose of child and family partnerships is to enable the voices, narratives and experiences of children and families to inform the work of your organisation. Developing a clear Child and family partnership policy will help maintain a commitment to child and family partnerships at an organisational and worker level. Learn more about getting started in developing relationships with children and families.

Quality improvement involves continually seeking feedback from child and family partnerships through a variety of methods. Be open to critical feedback and remember that in mistakes are learnings that will allow you to strive for continual improvement.

A toddler or young child can pick up on even subtle changes in mood and behaviour when their parent is unwell. This fact sheet will help you to connect with your toddler or young child when you are unwell so they feel secure and nurtured.

Babies can pick up even subtle changes in mood and behaviour when their parent is unwell. This fact sheet will help a parent with a mental illness to connect with their baby so that they feel secure and nurtured.