Access free seminars for parents that give simple, practical strategies to help you raise a happy and confident child.
As a parent or carer of children or teens, you can access free seminars on a range of topics. Each seminar is packed with ideas for giving your child the best start in life.
The Triple P – Positive Parenting Program gives you ideas and strategies to help your child develop the skills and behaviours they need for a healthy childhood.
- Learn about seminar options
- For parents of babies and pre-schoolers
- For parents of children aged 4 to 12
- For parents of pre-teens and teens
- For parents of children with a disability
- Seminars on specific topics
The Triple P – Positive Parenting Program allows you to choose from face-to-face seminars, online webinar sessions, or self-paced online courses.
Face-to-face seminars
Free face-to-face seminars are held in schools, Child and Parent Centres and community venues across Western Australia.
Learn proven strategies from trained facilitators to:
- raise happy, confident children
- manage misbehaviour so everyone in the family enjoys life
- set rules and routines that everyone respects
- encourage positive behaviour
- take care of yourself as a parent.
Choose ‘Find a session’ to register for a course, time and venue that suits you on the Triple P Parenting in Western Australia website.
You can also talk to your school about how they can host a free Triple P seminar for your community.
Online webinar session
You can attend our free online workshops from the comfort of your home. These sessions are run by Department of Education school psychologists.
You must register to attend. You will receive an email with a link to join the workshop, as well as a reminder before the workshop. For the best experience with the online workshop, download the Webex app.
Online self-paced courses
You can register for free self-paced online courses on the Triple P website.
Teen Triple P Online is a paid program. However, if you have a child at a public school, you can apply for a code to access the program for free. Ask staff at your school for the code.
Triple P Online for Baby
If your child is less than a year old, check out Triple P Online for Baby. This is a self-paced course to help you:
- understand what you can do to promote your baby’s development
- build a stronger bond
- support their emotional and physical health.
Preparing for the start of school (pre-Kindergarten)
Starting school is a big step for young children and their families. These 3 sessions help you support your child in building the skills and confidence needed for a smooth transition into school life.
- Spending time apart. Support your child to feel comfortable with others and separate calmly during the transition to starting school.
The next webinar is on Friday 5 December from 12 noon to 1 pm. Register for the spending time apart webinar. - Learning to use the toilet. This workshop helps parents of toddlers and pre-schoolers teach their child to use the toilet independently. Learn practical tips on readiness, key skills and common behavioural challenges.
- Starting school successfully. This session will cover practical tips to help your child, and your family, navigate the transition to school and set up a positive start to their learning journey.
There are 2 upcoming sessions for starting school successfully:
- Tuesday 2 December from 8 pm to 10 pm, register for the webinar
- Friday 12 December from 12 noon to 1 pm (a short session for lunch time learning), register for the webinar.
The Starting school successfully session was developed by school psychologist consultants through the Department's Child and Parent Centres.
Positive parenting series (up to 12 years of age)
The following 4 seminars are part of a positive parenting series. You can choose to do as many of them as you like.
- The Power of Positive Parenting. This seminar helps you understand the reasons kids do what they do, so you can guide their behaviour.
- Raising Confident, Competent Children. You can help your child become confident and successful at school and beyond. Find out ways to encourage them to be respectful and considerate, communicate and get on well with others, feel good about themselves and become independent problem solvers.
- Raising Resilient Children. Get the strategies that will allow your child to recognise positive and negative emotions and deal with them in a healthy way.
- Helping Children Develop Healthy Screentime Habits. This seminar helps you understand how screen time problems develop. It gives simple, positive strategies to encourage healthy habits, manage conflict, and keep kids safe online.
You can search for one of these face-to-face seminars near you, or check out the self-paced Triple P online course.
For parents of pre-teens and teens
The following 3 seminars are part of the Triple P Teen series. You can attend as many of the seminars as you like.
- Raising Responsible Teenagers. You’ll come away with new ideas to encourage your teenager to make good decisions, be respectful, considerate, reliable and involved in family life.
- Raising Competent Teenagers. Find out how to help your teen communicate well, develop self-discipline and good routines, follow rules and solve problems.
- Getting Teenagers Connected. Help your teenager develop good, supportive friendships. You’ll learn ways to build their confidence, encourage their social skills, help them to plan and meet commitments and encourage them to take care of others.
Search for a Triple P Teen face-to-face seminar near you.
Promoting digital wellbeing (pre-teens and teenagers)
This workshop supports parents in managing their child’s use of technology.
Learn how to set clear rules and limits to encourage safe, responsible and balanced digital habits.
Doing well in high school (children starting secondary school)
This session helps parents support their child’s transition into high school.
Learn practical ways to build key skills like self-discipline, problem-solving, study habits, school involvement, following rules, making supportive friendships and maintaining good attendance.
The next session is on Tuesday 9 December from 7 pm to 9 pm, register for the doing well in high school webinar.
The following 3 seminars are part of the Stepping Stones Triple P series. This series is for parents of children who are neurodivergent, have a developmental disability or have additional needs. You can attend as many of the seminars as you like.
The topics in the series are:
- Positive Parenting for Children with a Disability
- Helping your Child Reach their Potential
- Changing Problem Behaviour into Positive Behaviour.
Search for a Stepping Stones face-to-face seminar near you, or check out the self-paced Stepping Stones Triple P online course.
Fear-Less: Supporting children with anxiety (6 to 14 years of age)
Everyone feels anxious at times, even children and teenagers. But anxiety may cause distress and get in the way of life. This seminar will help parents to understand how anxiety works, how to manage your child’s anxiety effectively and teach your child new coping skills.
The upcoming session for Fear-Less: Supporting children with anxiety is on Monday 8 December from 9:30 am to 11:30 am, at the Goldfields Education Region Office - Room Zanthus or online through Teams. Register for the session.
You can search for a Fear-Less face-to-face seminar near you or complete Fear-Less Triple P online as a self-paced course.
Family transitions: Support your child through separation or divorce (up to 12 years of age)
Separation or divorce can be a challenging experience for you, your child and the whole family. You can ease the transition with proven tips and strategies that support everyone to cope and adjust well during this time.
Check out the self-paced Family Transitions Triple P Online course.