Resources
Our resource library is designed to support caregivers and professionals on their learning journey with helpful videos, articles, posters, and more.
As we discover new helpful resources, we will add them to this page. If you are looking for a particular resource that is not listed below, please contact us, using the Contact Us form at the bottom of the page.
Blog Posts and Articles
Notes to Self series
We know that sometimes therapeutic parenting does not always come easily. In a heated moment, we can sometimes forget to be PACEful, or we struggle to put the time aside to truly engage with our tamariki. Our Therapist, Rob Surtees simplifies some of our therapeutic training into actionable blog posts that you can refer to at home. Each post is a two-minute read. Dive in!
ARTICLES
QUICK READS FROM OTHER SOURCES
Video Resources
Molly Wright: How every child can thrive by five | TED talk
Nadine Burke: How childhood trauma affects health across a lifetime | TED talk
Childhood trauma isn’t something you just get over as you grow up. Pediatrician Nadine Burke Harris explains that the repeated stress of abuse, neglect and parents struggling with mental health or substance abuse issues has real, tangible effects on the development of the brain.
Amelia Speaking: New Zealand Foster Care Short Film
Amelia Speaking is a reflective short drama on Director Sydney-anne’s personal experience with foster care. Produced by Ruby Hirst.
Brené Brown: We need to talk about shame | TED talk
Ross Greene: Kids do well if they can
Dr Dan Hughes – Parenting a Traumatised Child While Living through COVID-19
Dan Hughes talks with Sez Morse, to foster carers, adopters, parents under pressure and all adults around traumatised children as we navigate our way through the Coronavirus pandemic.
For Professionals
Nurturing Attachments
KIM S. GOLDING
Foundations for Attachment Training Resource
KIM S. GOLDING
Working with Relational Trauma in Schools: An Educator's Guide to Dyadic Developmental Practice
KIM S. GOLDING, LOUISE MICHELLE BOMBÈR, SIAN PHILLIPS
For Caregivers
Becoming a Caregiver
Understand the process of becoming a caregiver and where to apply.
Your Roles, Rights, and Responsibilities
Whether you are caregiving through an non goverment organisation (NGO), Oranga Tamariki, or a whānau/kin placement, it’s important you understand your rights and responsibilities.
Financial Support
Check the types of financial support that is available to caregivers, and make sure you are getting everything you’re entitled to.
Helpful Organisations
Caring Families Aotearoa supports caregivers who are looking after children who are not biologically their own. As well as our support, there are other organisations that can support you on your caregiving journey.
This list of organisations might help our caregivers, or parental caregivers, please take a look to see if you can find an organisation who can support you.
Printable Resources
Inside Outside Age Poster (with male figures)
Inside Outside Age Poster (with female figures)
Brain Poster
The Anger Iceberg
Trauma and Brain Development Poster
House Model of Parenting
Te Whare Tapa Whā
Fonofale Model Poster
Developmental Trauma Flowchart
Parenting in the moment
Two Hands of Parenting Poster
Volcano of Arousal
PACE Information Handout
PACE in action poster
Discipline Parenting Sandwich
