School Family Support Program

What is the School Family Support Program?

The school family support program is a service that works in partnership with Catholic primary schools in the Bendigo and Wodonga areas.

The program works from a Child Centred and Family Focused Approach. School Family Support Workers help students and families find solutions to challenges they may be facing by helping children and families identify strategies for change and develop new skills.

What we do

Short term counselling and support for primary students using a holistic approach

Provide individual goal focused plans with students and families Support for families, parents, teachers and school staff Group work with students Information and referrals to other agencies and services Secondary consultations and training with teachers and school staff Why see a School Family Support Worker? anxiety/worry managing anger self esteem friendship skills understanding feelings grief, loss and separation How to access the School Family Support Program? To find out more information please contact your School Principal or Welfare Coordinator.

Schools that currently offer the School Family Support Program

School: Location:

St Mary's Inglewood

St Liborius Eaglehawk

Holy Rosary Heathcote

Our Lady of the Sacred Heart Elmore

St Monica's Kangaroo Flat

St Kilians Bendigo

St Peter's North Bendigo

St Joseph's Quarry Hill

St Therese's Kennington

St Francis of the Fields Strathfieldsaye

Holy Rosary White Hills

St Monica's Wodonga

St Augustine's Wodonga

Frayne College Baranduda

St Mary's Rushworth

St Joseph's Chiltern

Sacred Heart Yarrawonga