Resources for parents and carers

Information for Parents and Carers about the Child Safe Standards.

What to look for in a Child Safe Organisation.

What is Child Abuse?

About Children’s Rights. 

Teach you child how to keep themselves safe

A guide for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Parents and Carers. 

Cultural differences and conflict. 

Responding to disclosures of child abuse. 

Helping Children and Young People to Speak Up and make a Complaint. 

Parents of Gender Diverse Children. 

eSafety Commissioner.

SAFE Space - Choosing a person or organisation to work with your child. What parents of children with disability can do to help decide whether a person or organisation is suitable to work with their child.

Where to get help

Maternal and Child Health Line (24 hours, 7 days) - 13 22 29

Parentline (8.00am to midnight, 7 days a week including public holidays) - 13 22 89

Regional Parenting Services.

Child FIRST and Family Services. 

Raising Children Network. 

The Orange Door. The Orange Door in a free service for adults, children and young people who are experiencing or have experienced family violence.

Djirra is an Aboriginal community-run organisation providing assistance to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander victim survivors of family violence and sexual assault.

InTouch: Multicultural Centre against Family Violence - services, programs and responses to family violence in migrant and refugee communities in Victoria.