VICSEG New Futures supports newly arrived families and their children to gain equitable access to mainstream services and systems, while providing parents with new skills and social networks that support their adjustment to raising children in Australia. In each case, our programs are peer-led, meaning that families benefit from connecting to a worker who has navigated similar experiences during their own early settlement in Australia. We offer 1:1 mentoring to families and group-based support to recently arrived parents raising young children.
VICSEG New Futures’ Being a Parent (BaP) program is a peer-led, culturally and linguistically specific response to the challenges often experienced by recently arrived CALD parents raising children in Australia.
The nine-week program aims to help parents develop positive communication and parenting skills, emotional literacy, and to encourage parents to be mindful of how their words and actions can impact on children’s wellbeing.
Each intake is focused on a specific cultural and language group, with a trained faciliator from the same background.
Parents who take part in the program get to make new friends and connections while experiencing a range of other benefits, including:
To find out more, contact Jeanette Hourani at (03) 8554 1181 or jhourani@vicsegnewfutures.org.au
Our Family Mentoring program operates across the Northern and Western suburbs of Melbourne and provides individual support to newly arrived families facing language barriers, social isolation and challenges in accessing services. Our family mentors speak English as well as a number of other community languages and are able to provide culturally appropriate support by;