Thrive family workers can provide support for you for parenting concerns in your home, or at our offices in Katoomba and Lithgow. Some of the more typical concerns might be managing an anxious child or a shy child, difficulty maintaining routines, balancing a family budget in these times, developing peer skills in children and deciding whether an issue needs to be explored further with specialists. As well as one to one support, Thrive run several programs and activities you can book into, including the following: Money Minded- budgeting skills for families on limited incomes No Scaredy Cats- Managing children’s anxiety program for parents Bringing up great kids- communicating with children at different ages and stages Rock and Water- resilience program for tweens and teens Love Bites – an interactive workshop for teens aimed at equipping them with the knowledge needed to have respectful relationships. Black box parenting – supporting parents to think about how they interact with their children and how to manage some of the challenges of parenting after violence. Parenting Children with ADHD – Practical strategies to empower parents to work with their child to cope with the many challenges of ADHD. Keeping Children Safe -  aimed at enabling parents to recognise and understand child abuse and neglect and to support them to develop safe and effective parenting skills.