PCA Families

Lived Experience Parenting Channel for parents and carers.

Parenting children with complex needs requires great patience, extra time and a good sense of humour as you juggle your family, extended families, work and the educational and financial needs of your families.

The Lived Experience Parenting Channel is a free virtual community (videos and audios, podcasts and webinars) to support kinship, permanent care and adoptive parents, carers and families.

Learn from other parents or carers how to successfully parent your child and overcome some of the challenges of working from home, home schooling, financial hardship and accessing professional support.

Theories may not work in practice or we may not understand how they should or could be adapted for specific circumstances.

Ideas and tips from others with lived experience gives us the confidence to become better parents or carers.





Practical Strategies for FASD

Practical Strategies for FASD
PCAF Intro to FASD 1

PCAF Intro to FASD 1
Trust-Based Relational Intervention (TBRI) with Kerri Chard

Trust-Based Relational Intervention (TBRI) with Kerri Chard
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Flexible Funding Application Demonstration Video (02 12 2024)

Flexible Funding Application Demonstration Video (02 12 2024)
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GMT20231129 083137 Recording 1790x956 5
Stacy Blythe: Understanding and loving complicated children.

Stacy Blythe: Understanding and loving complicated children.
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Parenting demands you be flexible and put your needs parallel to your child's. A yarn helps too!

Parenting demands you be flexible and put your needs parallel to your child's. A yarn helps too!
Certain nutrients can slow the impacts of FASD on children from disrupted families. Diet matters.

Certain nutrients can slow the impacts of FASD on children from disrupted families. Diet matters.
Exercise physiology involves movement, play and the vagus nerve and pushing washing along the floor!

Exercise physiology involves movement, play and the vagus nerve and pushing washing along the floor!
Support for school selection & after school activities is important. Support for you is key too

Support for school selection & after school activities is important. Support for you is key too
Trauma informed involves relationship based transitions when leaving home and 24/7 interdependence.

Trauma informed involves relationship based transitions when leaving home and 24/7 interdependence.
Repair childhood trauma with safe non judgemental care and avoid people pleasing, abuse & misfits!

Repair childhood trauma with safe non judgemental care and avoid people pleasing, abuse & misfits!
FASD: from diagnosis to managing school, NDIS and living with this groundhog day no blame disability

FASD: from diagnosis to managing school, NDIS and living with this groundhog day no blame disability
Matrescence: you don't need to be a perfect adoptive parent. Motherhood /parenting is a big change!

Matrescence: you don't need to be a perfect adoptive parent. Motherhood /parenting is a big change!
Community Kinship Care involves openness & real relationships. Shared dinners/experiences are key.

Community Kinship Care involves openness & real relationships. Shared dinners/experiences are key.
Dog assistance training and therapy. Its not easy but its very rewarding. Seek NDIS support early!

Dog assistance training and therapy. Its not easy but its very rewarding. Seek NDIS support early!
Start school selection early so that when trauma behaviours arise, your school is ready!

Start school selection early so that when trauma behaviours arise, your school is ready!
What type of grandparent you are to your adoptee's children matters: be supportive & attuned.

What type of grandparent you are to your adoptee's children matters: be supportive & attuned.
Psychiatric, paediatric & other therapists for children with a trauma history. Where to start?

Psychiatric, paediatric & other therapists for children with a trauma history. Where to start?
Oral health may be causing behavioural or attachment issues in out of home care: check it regularly!

Oral health may be causing behavioural or attachment issues in out of home care: check it regularly!
Animal & Equine Therapy - learning self regulation & attachment through self awareness & connection

Animal & Equine Therapy - learning self regulation & attachment through self awareness & connection
PCA Families Flexi Funding Application Process

PCA Families Flexi Funding Application Process
Layne Beachley: let go of adoption dream thieves, sit with discomfort & find your instrinsic value.

Layne Beachley: let go of adoption dream thieves, sit with discomfort & find your instrinsic value.
PART 2 Behaviour Management with Bobbi Cook - Theory of Mind, SPD, school refusal and toe wriggling!

PART 2 Behaviour Management with Bobbi Cook - Theory of Mind, SPD, school refusal and toe wriggling!
Emotional literacy requires conscious parenting without rewards and punishment and uncomfortableness

Emotional literacy requires conscious parenting without rewards and punishment and uncomfortableness
PART 1 Kinship Care with Bobbi Cook: Labels, Medication, Rules, Respite & Compensatory Parenting

PART 1 Kinship Care with Bobbi Cook: Labels, Medication, Rules, Respite & Compensatory Parenting
Therapeutic Life Story Work: curiosity, wondering & making meaning of why a child needs to be a lion

Therapeutic Life Story Work: curiosity, wondering & making meaning of why a child needs to be a lion
Trauma children don't need control or punishment: coregulate, connect & own it! And say yes more!

Trauma children don't need control or punishment: coregulate, connect & own it! And say yes more!