Member organisations of AAPCH provide a broad range of parenting services to meet the diverse needs of families. Most services focus on the early years, acknowledging the importance of this period on the child’s long-term physical, social and emotional health and wellbeing. Services are family centred and include:
- Primary level care can be provided through home and centre-based services, telephone help-lines and online services for advice and support in relation to parenting issues
- Secondary level care provides services for families experiencing more complex parenting difficulties requiring additional intervention. Services can be provided through home and centre-based consultations with members of multidisciplinary teams
- Tertiary levels of care which provide more intensive short-term intervention for complex parenting difficulties often associated with psychosocial issues. Examples include residential programs provided through early parenting centres utilising strengths-based partnership approach.
- Specialist and targeted services for:
- the enhancement of parenting capacity of vulnerable families including those with identified child protection concerns
- families experiencing perinatal mental health difficulties including individual therapy and group interventions
- fathers
- indigenous families
- adolescent parents
- isolated and culturally and linguistically diverse families
- parents within the criminal justice system
- Parent Education Services including groups and resources such as publications and DVDs
- Professional Education Services. These include seminars, conferences and working in partnership with tertiary education facilities to develop and deliver specialist qualifications across a number of disciplines.
- Research to build upon the body of knowledge relating to the early parenting period and the provision of evidence-based services.
Together member agencies provide support to an estimated 300,000 + Australian & New Zealand families a year.
Organisations within the AAPCH are as listed: