Parents can self-refer to the Early Parenting Centre or can be referred by a GP or health care professional. For parents wishing to self-refer, please fill out the self-refferal form. For GPs or healthcare professionals, please fill out the medical refferal form.
Once we receive your referral, an appointment will be made at a time convenient to you. A Maternal and Child Health Nurse will speak with you and together will decide on the most appropriate program to attend.
Wayipunga Early Parenting Centre provides specialist intensive early parenting support to families with children aged 0-4 years. We focus on responsive parenting strategies while promoting healthy and engaging parent and child relationships.
We understand families may experience challenges in their parenting journey and aim to support families to reach their own goals. We support parents and carers with adjustment to parenting, sleep and settling, infant cues, attachment, progression of feeding and introduction of solids and understanding your child’s behaviour from baby to pre-schooler.
We support responsive settling strategies, in line with infant mental health evidence, we do not use controlled crying or cry it out methods.
This is a free service and self-referral are welcome. No medicare card needed.
We are staffed by a specialist team of Registered Nurses, Registered Midwives, Maternal and Child Health Nurses, Early Parenting Practitioners and a Psychologist.
This program is designed for children aged up to approximately 18 months. During your 6 hour admission we can provide support on responsive settling, responsive feeding, infant cues, toddler behaviour, play, age appropriate nutrition and parent-child relationship.
We support families by sharing sleep settling strategies and working with what responsive methods parents feel most comfortable with.
Each family has a small bedroom for the day, while sharing a communal play space and dining area.
Families provide their own food for the day.
We are an “allergy aware” service, please do not bring nuts into the centre.
Parents and carers can self-refer to our on-site residential program for a four night stay with children aged infant to 4yrs.
Individual family plans are supported with attending optional group education sessions.
You will be provided with your own bedroom and bathroom, able to accommodate multiple children as needed.
A shared play room, dining facility and outdoor play space is available for all families to use.
Meals are provided for your stay. You are also welcome to provide your own food if you prefer.
We are an “allergy aware” service, please do not bring nuts into the service.
There is no cost for this service.
We welcome referrals to provide early parenting support with:
We support families with unsettled infants, sleep settling concerns, feeding concerns, attachment, age appropriate daily patterns, strengthening parenting skills and understanding child behaviour.
We are staffed by a specialist team of Registered Nurses, Registered Midwives, Maternal and Child Health Nurses, Early Parenting Practitioners and a Psychologist.
After receiving a completed referral form, our staff will check for any immediate concerns and move to book an assessment and intake phone call with the family.
A thorough consultation will be completed to listen to the families concerns and determine in partnership with the family which program meets their needs best.
Address:
37-41 Havlin Street East,
Bendigo VIC 3550
Phone:
(03) 5454 7900
Hours:
Monday to Friday 8:30am to 5pm