Season’s for Growth program

Five new Parent Engagement Coordinators (PECs) attended the ‘Season’s for Growth’ program, a 2 day accredited training program at St Joseph’s retreat centre.

The Seasons for Growth Children and Young People’s Program, strengthens the social and emotional wellbeing of children and young people (aged 6-18 years) who have experienced significant change or loss in their lives. The program provides a safe learning environment for children and young people where they can give voice to their experiences, understand and befriend their feelings, learn skills that help them adapt, develop friendships, and recognise ‘I’m not the only one’.

Once trained, PECs will run this program in schools to support students affected by grief and loss. The program has been updated with a new component, ‘Ecological

Grief’ introduced to support students and families with grief due to environmental situations such as bushfires and flooding disasters, where families experience loss of homes and what used to be their normal way of living.