Current research indicates that best practice in early childhood intervention centres on a family centred and inclusive approach with relationships playing a central role in children’s social and emotional development and mental health.
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Thrive Families recognises that optimal child functioning occurs within a supportive family and community.
Thrive Families vision is to capacity build and assist parents in supporting their child’s development, including functional independence, by increasing their parental self-efficacy leading to:
· increased quality of parent-child interactions
· increased parental warmth and responsiveness
· use of appropriate coping and behavioural strategies
· increased confidence in accessing and participating in appropriate community or virtual supports.
We will do this by:
· using a family partnerships approach in recognising that mums and dads are the experts in their child’s life
· having a flexible delivery approach to work with mums, dads and other significant family members face to face or virtually at a time and location that suits them
· using evidence-based programs such as Circle of Security, Bringing Up Great Kids and Tuning into Kids as a foundation, to create an individualised strengths-based program that focuses on relational health and well-being
· collaborating with the family to adapt sessions according to their identified needs and feedback
· where appropriate, using our wide network of service knowledge to link families to suitable resources and supports
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Thrive Families focus is to provide services to NDIS families in the Perth metropolitan area and regional and remote areas in WA. Regional and remote services may be a combination of face to face and telehealth provision.
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Learn more about the approaches and programs used by Thrive Families here:
About Me
Narelle is the Director and Senior Consultant at Thrive Families, and has a Bachelor of Social Science, Graduate Diploma of Early Childhood Education, Certificate IV in Training and Assessment, Professional Certificate in Understanding Childhood Trauma and is an Endorsed Infant Family Worker.
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Narelle is the mother of three young adults and has more than 30 years’ experience working with children and families in a variety of senior roles in the community, health and education sectors in service delivery, practice development, and as an early childhood teacher. Her passions include working with families with children of all ages to increase parental knowledge and efficacy, connecting with service providers to inform and improve practice, building partnerships and collaborations with both external and internal stakeholders, embedding trauma informed practice and promoting the importance of early relational health resulting in improved outcomes for children, families and communities.
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Narelle’s expertise includes child and family centred practice, with extensive experience working with vulnerable families; capacity building staff, networks and organisations; building learning communities; mentoring and coaching staff with an emphasis on reflective supervision; and working in an inclusive and culturally sensitive manner with families and communities.
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Registered with the Western Australian Teachers’ Registration Board
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Qualified Early Childhood teacher
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Endorsed Infant Family Worker
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Current Working with Children Check
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Fully vaccinated