We invite you to join our last parent / carer webinar for 2025.
School Can't Australia Peer Support Group was formed in 2014. Since then members of the group have been sharing their lived experience with each other. We have struggled together to understand our children's distress and over 10 years thousands of parents have shared what has worked and what hasn't with each other. We have shared resources and insights. We have held space and provided mutual support. We have conducted research within our group, and written submissions to government seeking to share our perspectives. We have advocated, we have collaborated and together we have played a significant role in changing narratives about school attendance difficulties.
This webinar will help you learn from the experiences of past members and fast track your understanding of our lived experience knowledge.
We will discuss:
The nature of the nervous system and how it responds to stress
The power of a reframe - can't not won't
The importance of being curious
Barriers to identifying stressors and being a stress detective
Why it is important to consider the distress journey of the student
The importance of validating that the student is having a hard time.
The need to consider capacity and balancing demands and expectations with capacity
Learn to notice signs of stress and when to respond.
The importance of shared understandings and language to talk about school attendance difficulties.
The challenges associated with advocacy.
School Can't Australia SUPPORTS parents and carers, EMPOWERS them with lived experience knowledge and ADVOCATES for the needs of our parents/carers and their children.
This is an online event is held via Zoom. Access link will be delivered via email 24 hours prior to event. This event will be recorded with the recording available for 2 weeks following the webinar.
Tickets available here.
Note: Following live attendance at this event parents who are waiting to join the online peer support space can be fast tracked into the group.