ADL
“Tuning into Kids” and “Tuning into Teens” Parenting Programmes: These
evidence-based programs strive to promote emotional intelligence and connection among
families. By focusing on parents of adolescents and primary school-aged children, ADL aims to enrich emotional regulation, through a series of parenting programmes. This will ultimately strengthen family bonds within the growing Whakatipu community.
Project description: ADL was set up over 30 years ago to empower young people to live connected and meaningful lives. It has been providing accessible, sector-leading youth wellbeing, mental health, and substance misuse services, with the stated purpose of enhancing psychological wellbeing and resilience, ever since.
ADL's specific proposal to Impact100 is to use its grant monies to partner with local organisations in delivering “Tuning into Kids” and “Tuning into Teens” parenting programmes in the Whakatipu area. These evidence-based programmes, developed by Melbourne University, are already successful in Canterbury.
They would address a known gap in the market for services and support for parents of older children and adolescents. ADL believes that the Whakatipu Basin’s growing population creates unique challenges for parents who have limited intrafamilial support, not least of which are increasing isolation and stress. The programmes ADL intends to run will act as a circuit breaker, by fostering emotional intelligence and connection within families.
The specific thrust of the programmes is to help parents understand and respond appropriately to their children’s and their own emotions, strengthening relationships within families and the wider community.
Read more about ADL here https://www.adlnz.org.nz/