iKiDs - Supporting Children Post Separation
We assist children from separating families to deal with issues arising from the breakdown of their parents’ relationships.
Children exposed to sustained parental acrimony and violence are more likely to experience anxiety, and are at risk of developing mental illness and continuing relationship problems if they're not given the opportunity to experience safe and protective relationships with others.
iKiDs (I Know I Do) is about helping children to understand, to express themselves and to participate in the decisions that impact on them. We work with children up to the age of 18 in three distinct ways.
One to one counselling
We provide one to one counselling for children from the age of two years old. We provide a safe, friendly and confidential way for children to talk and to help parents understand what they are thinking.
Therapeutic Groups
We facilitate therapeutic groups for different age and cultural groups to build and revise relationships of trust and self esteem.
The five therapeutic goals of our groups are:
- Create common ground and safety among peers
- Explore the language and complexity of feelings
- Define and differentiate self and others
- Define and revise roles and relationships
- Explore and establish/restore compassion and optimism.
Education skills programs
We run education programs to help develop children’s skills in dealing with family transitions using peer group support approaches. The program are age specific and community and school based.
iKiDs is designed to compliment and not duplicate other services and programs. Therefore an important part of iKiDs is to ensure that effective referral pathways are created and, in more complex cases, integrated with both existing Relationship Australia (SA) services and external agencies
iKiDs locations are shown on the right.
iKiDs is provided by Relationships Australia (SA) and funded by the Australian Government Department of Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs.