A FREE 10-session parenting program for parents and carers with pre-walker babies.

Fridays 10.00am to 12.00pm

11 October to 13 December 2024

You have brought your baby home from the hospital, now what?

Being a new parent can bring a mix of emotions that varies from person to person.

Especially if it's your first time.

The Incredible Years program can help give you some guidance on where to start, and how to begin building you parenting toolkit as your baby develops.

In this program, parents learn how to:

Encourage their babies’ physical and language development
Help their babies feel loved, safe, and secure
Promote attachment
Discover how your babies' brain will grow rapidly over the first few years
Knowing when to ask for help

Session 1: Becoming a Parent and Getting to know your baby
Session 2: Parents as Responsive Communicators and Babies as Intelligent Language Learners
Session 3: Babies as intelligent learners
Session 4: Providing physical tactile and visual stimulation (part 1)
Session 5: Providing physical tactile and visual stimulation (part 2)
Session 6: Parents learning to read babies' minds
Session 7: Gaining Support
Session 8: Babies emerging sense of self (part 1)
Session 9: Babies emerging sense of self (part 2)
Session 10: Celebration on Completing the program and where to from here.

As each week builds on the previous one, availability to attend all 10 sessions is beneficial and preferred. Bookings essential.

This parenting program is offered at no cost thanks to the generous funding from Parenting Connection, supporting WA parents.

The workshop facilitator is Debs Woods of Parenting Ways, if you have questions about the workshop contact her at admin@parentingways.com.au

The Yallo program is an initiative of Investing In Our Youth in partnership with Milligan and funded by Department of Communities.