Beginning Child Aware Conversations with Parents who use Substances

Working with families where substance use is part of their lived experience can be complex and multifaceted, often intersecting with other health and wellbeing needs.
This webinar will help you strengthen your skills in child-aware practice, supporting conversations that keep children’s wellbeing central while recognising the strengths, motivations, and protective capacity of families.

Join our panel for practical strategies to reduce stigma, build trust, and hold child-aware conversations that put children’s wellbeing at the centre.

Learning Outcomes: 

• Describe strategies for introducing child aware conversations with parents in a sensitive and collaborative manner
• Select supportive approaches which balance child aware conversations with professional obligations to maintain children’s safety
• Implement effective strategies for engaging with parents who use substances, focusing on building trust and reducing shame or guilt

Our interdisciplinary panel: 

• Fiona, Child and Family Partner 
• Dr Suzie Hudson, Mental Health Social Worker and Clinical Advisor at the Centre for Alcohol and Other Drugs 
• Alicia Phillips, Family Counsellor - Alcohol and Other Drugs 

This webinar is co-produced by MHPN and Emerging Minds for the Emerging Minds: National Workforce Centre for Child Mental Health (NWCCMH) project. 
The NWCCMH is funded by the Australian Government Department of Health under the National Support for Child and Youth Mental Health Program.