A number of voluntary and private organisations also provide relationship services. Contacts vary from state to state. Please also consult Yellow Pages and Google for more information.
New programs are continually being developed according to the identified needs of target groups.
These inventory/questionnaire programs are completed by couples at a variety of ages and stages, from exploring a relationship and pre-marriage to re-marriage. Couples work with a facilitator to explore their relationship strengths and growth areas.
Groups of couples work through an agenda which may be set or contributed to by the participants. The goals are for couples to improve awareness of their relationship strengths, to develop an understanding of the forces contributing to who they are, and to learn new skills which will help as they move forward together as a married couple.
Most couples are united in their desire to grow together, rather than apart. Couples are offered activities to enhance their relationship in fun ways and to learn new skills and tools to work as a team.
This life stage has been identified as a critical time for couples. These groups normalise this challenge and in a fun – but research supported way – provide skills and knowledge to support and nurture couples while parenting.
These provide an opportunity for couples to celebrate the positives of stepfamily life while developing strategies for coping with challenging stepfamily dynamics and parenting. Loss and grief issues for people re-partnering with children are also considered an important part of these programs.
Separated clients learn skills to help them manage the challenges of parenting in this situation, keeping the well being of children foremost in mind while managing often complex relationships with ex-partners and wider family.
These programs provide support and learning for people struggling to come to terms with the breakdown of a relationship. Clients are asked to look at where they are in the process of recovery, to confront grief issues, to identify more about what they would like in the future and to explore personal growth for the future.
Participants explore the origins of their anger, work on responses rather than reactions and learn and practise new skills and self-awareness.
The goals are to encourage greater self-awareness in participants and provide improved skills to assist them in creating healthy happy relationships.
Educating men about parenting skills, developmental phases of children and working with or without a partner.
The goal in these groups is for perpetrators to develop greater self-awareness, to accept responsibility for behaviour and attitudes, to explore the origin of behaviours and attitudes and to consider the effect of violence on partners and children.
Such groups could have a range of themes to suit the target group. They are often developed by a relationship educator determining appropriate content with a community member. eg. Parenting for Sudanese Men.
These are provided by many organisations and private groups for a range of needs. eg. Parenting Teenagers.
A variety of identified needs in schools can be met by relationship educators for parents and students alike. These are most effectively developed in consultation with the relevant school personnel.
Community organisations invite relationship educators to present on a selected theme.