Children & young people
2021
Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander | View Here |
Australian Childhood Foundation: Feeling safe ebook. | View Here |
Butterfly Foundation: Be Body Kind. | View Here |
CFCA: Age of consent laws in Australia. | View Here |
CMY: Resources for Schools. | View Here |
Emerging Minds: Reframing Children’s Mental Health – a communications toolkit. | View Here |
Emerging Minds: Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) Toolkit. | View Here |
Emerging Minds: Supporting children’s mental health during a pandemic toolkit. | View Here |
IEMHP: Infant and early mental health competencies checklist. | View Here |
Monash University: Q Project Improving the use of research evidence in Australian schools. | View Here |
MYAN: National Youth Settlement Framework – What’s needed to help young people reach their full potential? | View Here |
QLD Family & Child Commission: Our Household Activity Book. | View Here |
Raising Children Network: Consent and sexual consent: talking with children and teenagers. | View Here |
Tasmanian Government: Tasmanian Child and Youth Wellbeing Framework. | View Here |
2020
Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander | View Here |
Active for Life: Activities to help raise physically literate children. | View Here |
Active for Life: Early years educators toolkit. | View Here |
AIFS Child Family Community Australia: Planning an evaluation | Step by step. | View Here |
Australian Childhood Foundation: The Day Morty’s Face Fell Off. | View Here |
Australian Childhood Foundation: Bringing up great kids: resources for parents. | View Here |
Australian Childhood Foundation: Unpacking and responding to behaviour. | View Here |
Australian Council on Children and the Media: Children’s screen content matters: reviews, information, advocacy. | View Here |
Connect: Co-designing learning. | View Here |
CREATE Foundation: Best Practices Guide on Participation. | View Here |
eSafety Commissioner: Online safety guidance and supporting material to assist Australian school leaders. | View Here |
eSafety Commissioner: Engaging school communities in online safety. | View Here |
Emerging Minds: Identifying and responding to bullying in the pre-teen years: the role of primary health care practitioners. | View Here |
FFSP: Family and Friend Support Program. | View Here |
HJA: Advocacy tools for health justice partnership. | View Here |
Multicultural Youth Advocacy Network: National Youth Settlement Framework Panel – Applying the NYSF in Practice. | View Here |
MYAN: National Youth Settlement Framework. | View Here |
National Office for Child Safety: Speak up and make a complaint. | View Here |
NSW Govt: Information for children about permanency and safety and how FACS is helping children have a permanent home. | View Here |
NSW Office of the Children’s Guardian: Help to become a child safe organisation. | View Here |
NT Dept of Education: Family Engagement Charter. | View Here |
Play by the Rules: Recorded session, Child safety in a post-COVID world. | View Here |
Positive Parenting: Teen Drinking: The Role of Peers. | View Here |
PMC: New National Office for Child Safety website. | View Here |
SA Commissioner for Children and Young People: library of reports. | View Here |
The Smith Family: Let’s Count early mathematics program. | View Here |
University of Tasmania: Teen Parents in Australia. | View Here |
YMCA: Nutrition Blog. Learn about nutrition, level up your kitchen skills and have your questions answered! | View Here |
Video & Audio Recordings
Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander | View Here |
ABC: Fierce Girls podcast series. | View Here |
ABC: Looking for educational podcasts for children? Check out Fierce Girls. | View Here |
ACU and ACT Children’s Commissioner: Re-imagining child safety in the ACT. Video. | View Here |
Centre for Community Child Health: Raising Learners podcast series. | View Here |
Child Trends: Video and article: Too much structured playtime. | View Here |
CREATE Foundation: Voices in Action podcast: the voices of children and young people in care. | View Here |
CREATE: Gus talks COVID with and for young people. | View Here |
CREATE in Tasmania: Transition to Independence Webinar: | View Here |
Every Child: In discussion with youth advocates. | View Here |
Generation Next: Gaming Addiction: Understanding Excessive Gaming, Risk Factors and Warning Signs. | View Here |
Generation Next: Developing Willpower in Young People – Interview with Andrew Fuller. | View Here |
Griffith University: VIDEO | A new tool for measuring child wellbeing. | View Here |
Student Wellbeing Hub: Building hope and resilience during extraordinary times of change. | View Here |
YChats: Noelle Martin’s fight against Deepfakes. | View Here |
CRIS: Young people, race and new media. YouTube video. | View Here |
THE EARLY YEARS
Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander | View Here |
Australian Catholic University: Kids Central tools and resources. | View Here |
Australian Childhood Foundation: My Sensory Hand activity to build a sensory guide of comfort to enhance the feeling of safety. | View Here |
Australian Childhood Foundation: Activity alphabet | activities for families to share at home. | Preschool age View Here Primary school age View Here |
Australian Childhood Foundation: The Day Morty’s Face Fell Off. | View Here |
Child Trends: Brief on family instability and children’s social development. | View Here |
Child Trends: 10 Ways to Support Children’s Emotional Well-Being During COVID-19. | View Here |
CREATE: Participation Principles: key messages from children and young people with a care experience. | View Here |
eSafety Commissioner: Big Ted’s tech tips for 2020: good online habits start early. | View Here |
Generation Next: Children’s grief through the lens of The Lion King. | View Here |
Gowrie VIC & ECA: In their shoes, online resource to teach empathy. | View Here |
Lifecourse Centre: Early Childhood Literacy Fact Sheet. | View Here |
Raising Children: Activity Guide – Museum activities for young children. | View Here |
Raising Children: Comprehensive portal focused on First 1000 Days. | View Here |
Raising Children: Supporting children aged 2 – 5 years during disaster news and distressing news events. | View Here |
RWJF: Evidence-based recommendations for early childhood beverages. | View Here |
The Conversation: Talking through play: 3 ways puppets can help your child open up. | View Here |
The Sector: Resources for discovery – how loose parts play can energise environments. | View Here |
UniSA: Practice brief – supporting children and young people’s safety. | View Here |
TEENS & TWEENS
Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander | View Here |
ACF: Magnetic mindfulness for young people. | View Here |
AMF: Media Literacy Lab, digital learning for students aged 12 to 16 – teaching a generation to fact check. | View Here |
CaringLife: a platform for record keeping of children’s memories within the OOHC sector. | View Here |
CEBC: Program overview, Too good for drugs. Target ages 11-14. | View Here |
Child Trends: Clear & common definitions of terms encountered by practitioners serving youth. | View Here |
CREATE: Create Your Future: Transition to independence: Their story. | View Here |
CREATE Foundation: Child-centred complaints handling – best practice guide. | View Here |
CREATE Foundation: Go Your Own Way kit for young people starting to plan for their transition to independence. | View Here |
CREATE Foundation: Poster to guide language use when working with young people. | View Here |
CREATE Your Future: Free mobile app – Sortli is your guide to becoming an adult, designed by young people, for young people. | View Here |
eSafety Commissioner: Online safety for young people. | View Here |
Generation Next: How to help young people, according to young people. | View Here |
Get Ready Queensland: interactive online game which challenges Queensland kids to prepare for future disasters and severe weather. | View Here |
Tamarack Institute: Meaningfully Engaging Youth. | View Here |
Whitlam Institute: What Matters? – a catalyst for young thinkers to develop a perspective on where society is heading. | View Here |
YMCA: Stay Safe Online, Tell Someone Program. | View Here |