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publications for parents, carers & families

Information about all the publications and the resource order form here, including:

parenting magazines

• Parenting - general tips for all types of parents and carers
• Caring for babies
• Living with toddlers
• Parenting - Arabic edition
• Parenting - the teenage years, Arabic edition

For individual articles, see our parenting section.

Also see resources for parents for games cards, information sheets, toddler tantrum brochures and more.

• Never shake a baby
  what to do and what not to do when your baby cries
• kids in cars

• Methadone and your child's safety
  Advice for parents on storing methadone, safe sleeping and settling babies (Available in hard copy - see resource order form).
  Methadone poster

• How does DoCS help families

  DoCS works with families to help them stay together and look after their children.
  Available in four community languages: Arabic, Dinka, Somali and Swahili

• parenting cards on games, feeding and more

• SCAN - supporting children with additional needs
  Do you have a child with additional needs enrolled or about to be enrolled in a preschool, occasional care or vacation care centre?
  Available in six community languages: Arabic, Chinese, Croatian, Macedonian, Turkish, and Vietnamese

• Dual Diagnosis support kit
  
  for parents: a booklet with advice for parents with dual diagnosis. This booklet has useful tips on how dual diagnosis can affect your ability to parent, the way it affects children and things that you can do to help your children.
  
  for children:
  The Blue Polar Bear (2MB PDF) - an illustrated storybook for 5-7 year olds
  The Flying Dream (2MB PDF) - an illustrated book for 8-12 year olds

• Family & friends affected by the drug use of someone close
  Available in Arabic, Chinese, Croatian, Serbian, Turkish and Vietnamese

• Domestic violence
  what domestic violence is and how to get help
  Available in seventeen community languages: Arabic, Chinese, Croatian, Dari, Dinka, Farsi, Fijian, Korean, Macedonian, Russian, Samoan, Somali, Spanish, Tamil, Tongan, Turkish, and Vietnamese

• Women, violence & the law
  Available in Arabic, Dinka, Punjabi, Russian, Tagalog and Thai

• Supporting someone who experiences domestic violence
  The right response can save lives. (Available in hard copy - see resource order form).
  Also available in five community languages: Arabic, Chinese, Korean, Spanish, and Vietnamese

  Being a parent can be tough - brochure for parents
  - also available in 12 community languages Arabic, Chinese, Dari, Dinka, Farsi, Korean, Spanish, Somali, Samoan, Tamil, Turkish and Vietnamese.
• Raising a family can be hard (Aboriginal)
• Adoption Act 2000
  How it affects you

• Are you a former ward?
  how to access your ward file and find out about your personal history

• Connecting kin
  information to help people who have been separated from their birth families (through adoption, fostering etc) locate records about their separation and their families