Supporting Family Conversations

Catholic School Parents WA is delighted to support the Telethon Kids Institute in their latest project to raise awareness and support parents in their communication around alcohol and cybersafety.  Supporting Family Conversations is a Healthway-funded project being run in Western Australia by the Telethon Kids Institute in collaboration with the Department of Education’s School Drug Education and Road Aware (SDERA) program and the Mental Health Commission.

The project aims to support communication between parents and their Year 7 children about alcohol and cybersafety, and ultimately to reduce the risk of harm to teenagers from alcohol use and in the online environment.

This project benefits from the wealth of experience of its multidisciplinary research team, who have worked in the areas of child health, cyber and alcohol research for more than 20 years. The team includes Dr Therese Shaw and Dr Robyn Johnston from the Telethon Kids Institute, Dr Conor Gilligan from the University of Newcastle and Professor Simone Pettigrew from Curtin University. These researchers have a particular interest in supporting parents to keep children safer and help them to develop to their full potential. The resources have been designed based on the latest available evidence from the scientific literature and in the findings from the research team’s previous work with parents and schools in WA. The project also benefits from the knowledge and experience of leading stakeholders working in these fields from the Health Promotion & Education Research & Translation team at the Telethon Kid Institute, SDERA program and the Mental Health Commission.

Click to view a video on Setting Expectations around alcohol and young people HERE 

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Talking about trying alcohol HERE