Confident Carers Cooperative Kids

Confident Carers Cooperative Kids is a 9-week program that aims to increase parents’ skills in developing strategies that limit the cause of challenging behaviours for children 3 to 11 years old. This is achieved by focusing on improving the parent-child relationship through play, praise and other positive activities.

The participants learn how to use praise and rewards effectively and how to give clear and practical instructions. Throughout the group, participants gain insight into how consistent, attachment-rich responses and activities can limit the incidence of challenging behaviour.

The program aims to reduce problem behaviour by focusing on improving:

• The consistency of responses to challenging behaviour.

• The effectiveness of praise and rewards when re-enforcing appropriate behaviour.

• The effectiveness of clear instructions when setting necessary limits on behaviour.

• The parent-child relationship through the use of play and other positive activities.

• The use of preventative strategies (i.e., ignoring, redirecting and avoiding arguments) that limit the causes and maintenance of challenging behaviour.

The Confident Carers Cooperative Kids program is a targeted behaviour management program created by Mark Donovan and Greg Konza, leading-edge Australian scholars and clinicians in child psychology and parenting.

Program details:

• The program runs for nine weeks (2 hours each week, including one pre-group assessment session and 8 group sessions).

• The group runs twice yearly (commencing February/March & July/August).

• The group can be run face-to-face in the Liverpool CBD or Sydney CDB or online.

• Parents/Carers are expected to attend the entire nine weeks of the program.

• Children do not attend the program.

• Fees per family: $630 for the entire nine weeks. Discount available for existing clients.

Parents concerned about their child’s behaviour can contact Dune Health and Wellbeing directly to register their family for a pre-group assessment. This assessment is designed to understand your child's unique needs and determine the appropriateness of the CCCK Program for your family. If other supports are required before commencing group sessions, we will guide you accordingly.