Spectrum

PARENTING IN A NEW CULTURE

Part time (22.8hr per week)

Congolese, Burundian, Sierra Leone & Liberian

Based in Preston

Parenting in a new culture is an exciting new initiative of Spectrum Migrant Resource Centre aiming at strengthening and supporting parents from CALD backgrounds to raise their children effectively in the Australian context. The parenting programs for African Refugee Families aims at piloting Parenting Skills Development Courses and providing individual parenting support and advice to parents from the African communities living around Melbourne. The project also aims at developing parenting resources for parents within the various African communities written in their own community language and also in the English language. The parenting program for African Refugee Families is supported by the Department of Family and Community Services and Indigenous Affairs (FACSIA) through the Local Answers Initiative (Round 5).

We are seeking three part time Parenting Educators to work with parents from either the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Burundi or Liberia & Sierra Leone to enhance their parenting skills to raise their children effectively in a different cultural, social and educational environment.

Key objectives of these roles are to:

1. offer a culturally responsive parenting model to parents within the local target community,
2. enhance the capacity of parents to raise their children effectively and integrate their parenting practices within the Australian context,
3. support the role of parents and families and to provide them with better life opportunities in order to assist their children to reach their full potential,
4. strengthen social cohesion and acculturation of these communities

Please click on the attached link for a copy of the job description

Visit our website to learn more about us www.spectrumvic.org.au and for a copy of the job description. Please email your application addressing the selection criteria to jobs@spectrumvic.org.au by 9.00am Thursday 3 January 2008.